Personal News (25/01/09)

Albeit 24 hours late - another night involving fizzy pop yesterday.

The Bus

Rehearsals are now underway for the English Language premier for Lukas Barfuss' The Bus (or the Makings of a Saint). The play will debut at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham on Saturday 14 March, and tickets can be bought here. This is certainly a play worth seeing; first produced in 2005, winning the Jury and audience prizes at the Moiheimer Theatertage, it looks at the issue of religion in the post atheistic society.

During rehearsals we have focused on our understanding of the characters and the journeys they make during the play. It's hard work, most of the characters hide behind a veil of lies and deceit disguising their true emotions except in periods of high stress or drunkeness. I'm looking forward to putting what we have discussed into practise.


Lifelong Yearning

Went through the second half last night, more cuts but not as many as in the first rehearsal. It's tough cutting bits, especially when the lines are as funny as they are in Lifelong Yearning, but it's important that the jokes seve the plot rather than the other way round. Rehearsals for Lifelong will probably be put on hold now until after Easter, to give us time to learn lines (not to mention the other projects many of us are working on).

Leadership & Culture

Auditioned (and got a part) for a corporate job on Thursday with Big Umbrella Media. It's a leadership video for an UK T&D firm and hopefully it will be the first in a series of films for them. Also Big Umbrella have done a number of high profile adverts so if they like me there's always the opportunity of more work from them. Woohoo.