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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
Likes
Movies
Books
Writing
Theatre
Hugs
Kittens
Chess
Scrabble (mostly beating Cheesy's butt)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Dislikes
Vegetables
Arguments
Cleaning
Trashy TV
Pretensions
Public Transport
Pets
Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Monday, August 23, 2004
Sorry folks - it's been a hectic time. Work has been crazy and stressful, leaving me drained and exhausted. It's not been the best job I've ever had, let's just say that. But the bad is being fought valiantly by the over whelming good going on at the moment.
At the weekend I finally got to see what I'd been waiting for for probably the last six months - Technically Speaking, performed at the place I practically grew up in: Chorley Little Theatre:
And it was an AMAZING production. Bron and the cast did an amazing job. The film was also brilliant that they made to go with it - if I can ever figure out a way to get it online, I most certainly will do.
 
It was really great to watch with my low level of involvement in the rehearsal process. When we did the show in Manchester, I lived and breathed the play, and by the end found it hard to tell what was working - only the audience's reaction guided me, but I couldn't tell whether I actually enjoyed the play myself. This time however was different. I blushed the entire way through it, but I also laughed. ALOT. It's weird to laugh at your own jokes, but then you have different people saying them a different way, and suddenly they're funnier.
 
What's surprised me most is how the older members of CADOS enjoyed it - the play is full of bad language and naughty sex stuff, which would all be bad enough without the girl on girl snog right in the middle - not a single complaint. Quite amazing for Chorley. Apparently the reviewer there had some critisisms about the script - which is more than fair enough. Technically Speaking is funny, but it is a shallow play. Saying that, these guys gave it more depth than I ever knew it had. The last scene literally made my chest ache - weird stuff. But then again, I've always described it as a frivolous comedy - it never pretends to be anything but. So if the critisms are: "too frivolous", well, that's just fine. Let's just hope it sticks to that.
Also in the work - Waking opened at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival today - eep. This one's scaring me a bit more. The Fringe crowd are A LOT more critical than most, and I can only hope the play isn't trashed. Am immensely looking forward to being in Edinburgh again, but there's no way to predict the fringe reaction to any play really. We'll have to see. Keep your fingers crossed for me! And if there's anyone else out there who isn't already coming to Edinburgh but who fancies sleeping on our floor - drop me an email!
8:47 pm
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