Last night was my first acting experience in, oh so long, so long in
fact that I can barely remember my last one - iirc it was as "War General
Death Chicken" at Lepracon in the early 2000's and that was just to run on
stage, cluck a bit and run off (ah acting, it builds character you know) and
before that it was probably in school.
Talking of school that was the last time I attempted to write a play, at
age 12. I wrote a play (at a catholic school) where the main character was a
chain-smoking kleptomaniac priest and the cast were stuck on board a ski lift
gondola. Bless my teacher at the time, Miss Dempsey, the only one of my English
teachers to encourage me to write. She put it on in front of the whole school
during a performance week (other classes put on Shakespeare & other
'proper' playwright's plays). I don't remember my play going down very well...
(The Erishkagel Working)
(A Long Spoon)
Last night's performance was very different. We performed four plays
adapted from Jonathan L Howard's Johannes Cabal stories.
And it seemed to go very well.
(Chris Cutting - iPhone struggling with
low light there)
Paul Donovan for doing the fantastic sound effects and for sitting in a
cupboard throughout the performance
And my fellow writers and actors:
The Erishkagel Working - adapted for radio by Pete Sutton & Thomas
David Parker
A Long Spoon - adapted for radio by Chris Cutting
Johannes Cabal - Ken Shinn
Jones the Hatter, Mr Curry, Pensey - Thomas David Parker
Myghin - AA Abbott
Parkin, Luan Da - Pete Sutton
Constable Copeland, Zarenyia - Ellen Waddell
Assorted Sprites, Zombies & Others - LE Turner
Maleficarus, Rufus Maleficarus - Chris Cutting
(Where's the audience?)
(Death of Me
in full flow)
Johannes Cabal is a great character and the stories are very funny. You
should go check out Jonathan's books!
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