ouch 10 March 2009
Why is it that the simplest things hurt most and are most inconvenient? I bit the back of my tongue last night, during the show, and it is AGONY still. It’s the section between my top and bottom back teeth, left hand side of my mouth. OUCH. When it happened I immediately imagined that my speech had become ‘furry’ and in fact it seemed to me, from hearing me inside of my head, that I sounded like I was speaking through cotton wool. Now it just HURTS and I don’t look forward to spending 2 and a half hours speaking aloud this evening. Similarly, I twisted my neck strangely just looking over at one of the other actors at the end of the play on Friday night and that too hurt like a MUTHA! (sorry for the language, but you get the picture). It sent the neck muscle into a spasm that lasted all day Saturday (for 2 shows). ‘Ah now here, lads,’ as we might say, ‘ENOUGH.’ I once spent an entire show (many years ago) vomiting, quite noisily, into buckets and receptacles around a stage. Actors will tell you though that unless your leg is hanging off you’ll continue – Dr Theatre and all that. And I did on that night – also no one noticed, not even one of the other actors onstage with me. Still, I’d prefer to be motoring without ‘an injury’…AND this latest tongue biting incident has left me a tad ‘spitty’ – not ever an attractive sight in an actor…
