University, och aye
Back in Edinburgh after a mildly enjoyable Christmas and New Year. Went back to Portsmouth for a few weeks to see friends and family, and nabbed an award for best English Student at my old college. Spiffy.
My lecturers for this semester are a pretty uninspiring lot who may indeed suck all the fun out of ancient Greek/Roman stuff, though I now have the complete series of "I, Claudius" to get me through - the best TV series ever made, surely? An utter masterpiece it is, it is indeed.
I'm co-starring as Lord Henry Wotton in a production of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in February, which is fabulous as it's an adaptation of one of my favourite books and I'm playing one of my favourite fictional characters. It's going well so far; the cast and crew seem to like me and laugh at most of my jokes, so there's a good start. Playing the part is fairly easy, as he's basically me with a more interesting past (given that he sinned a lot, and I've still done nothing particularly dodgy at all, damn my eyes).
I've finished writing "How to be Horrid: The Price of Principles" and indeed rehearsals have started already. I have a good cast, though I'm slightly apprehensive about my leads; they haven't really got into the characters of Reginald and Peter yet, especially as I can't help comparing them to the way that Ed and I played them in the sketch show. Ah well. The cast seem delighted with the script and their roles, so hopefully all will be well. If anybody's interested, here's the script itself: http://www.digitalbrain.com/simball2k/David/EDWARDIANETHICS-THEPLAY%5b1%5d.doc
Otherwise, life goes on. Ho hum.
My lecturers for this semester are a pretty uninspiring lot who may indeed suck all the fun out of ancient Greek/Roman stuff, though I now have the complete series of "I, Claudius" to get me through - the best TV series ever made, surely? An utter masterpiece it is, it is indeed.
I'm co-starring as Lord Henry Wotton in a production of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in February, which is fabulous as it's an adaptation of one of my favourite books and I'm playing one of my favourite fictional characters. It's going well so far; the cast and crew seem to like me and laugh at most of my jokes, so there's a good start. Playing the part is fairly easy, as he's basically me with a more interesting past (given that he sinned a lot, and I've still done nothing particularly dodgy at all, damn my eyes).
I've finished writing "How to be Horrid: The Price of Principles" and indeed rehearsals have started already. I have a good cast, though I'm slightly apprehensive about my leads; they haven't really got into the characters of Reginald and Peter yet, especially as I can't help comparing them to the way that Ed and I played them in the sketch show. Ah well. The cast seem delighted with the script and their roles, so hopefully all will be well. If anybody's interested, here's the script itself: http://www.digitalbrain.com/simball2k/David/EDWARDIANETHICS-THEPLAY%5b1%5d.doc
Otherwise, life goes on. Ho hum.