huge 28 April 2011
my dears, apologies for dipping out over the last while – consider me BACK now. the poor old noggin took a while to recover from the bang i gave it while i had that bug. in the meantime i’ve also had to use it a lot to rehearse the play HAPPY DAYS in sheffield, and that play is a bit of a beast i can tell you. it’s a samuel beckett so its very intricate and i say 98% of all of the words…EEK. we’re near the end of our first week now and with 2 to go to performing The Beast i am humbled and, of course, quietly and sometimes not so quietly terrified – which is how it should be. i find that i am quoting from the play in ‘real life’ already so i hope that’s a good sign/omen. thing is, i’ll be trying to learn some lines from here on out and will probably be appalled at how loose my ‘quotations’ from the text have been so far. sheffield is lovely, what little i have seen of it, and the people very nice. also, unlike manchester, no one walks into you without a care in the world or a thought for it – i did find manc a tad rough like that, a tad ‘careless’, wonderful as it is.
