technical 13 April 2008
I saw a bit of ER tonight and was struck again at the ease with which the actors trot out technical terms. I have not had to do that, so far. Friends of mine have played physicists in COPENHAGEN and apparently the audiences were stacked with real life types who wanted to discuss quantum physics afterwards with the actors – awkward when you are just pretending, playing a part. During a production of GALILEO in Dublin I heard of lively post show discussions involving the Flat Earth Society who absolutely refuse to believe that the earth is round. Mind you, on my 30th birthday, I agreed to take over a part that night in a Noel Coward play…in French. I went in at 2, watched the archive video of the show, learned the lines and was on stage at 8. Very exciting too. And a most unusual birthday event.
