street 10 May 2011
it’s sometimes hard to separate real life from work, and often times (i know I KNOW) when they mean one and the same thing, at least for a while. so, i took to the streets of sheffield after a tough but good day’s rehearsals for HAPPY DAYS (see the crucible website for all details) and was confronted by youthful types shouting and pushing one another around. for a few, though brief, moments i though they might be a part of the group that’s been around the theatre since the weekend and, perhaps, publicising their show – they were quite adjacent and vocal and explicit about their problems with one another, after all…and then, the horrible dawning that this was in fact a young couple, egged on by their friends, having a quite vocal and physical row about life…but then i thought maybe it IS the youth group after all because the local novelties shop was also party to a young shop assistant loudly telling another youth to leave shop, so SURELY these were all related? erm, NO, my head is too far into theatreland. and i also then realised that the last i had seen and heard of the youth theatre group was their, rather excellent, rendition of Owl City’s FIREFLIES over the screens and monitors backstage at the crucible
