Hi there all my blogging friends. Sorry for the gap in blogging but life has been very busy of late. Work, Art and stuff.
So, what has been happening in my 'oh so busy' life?
For the last three months I have been out most nights reheasing Anna Karenina in which I am playing Kostya Levin (the male lead) and have had to learn approx 60 pages worth of dialogue and we go live from 3rd to 8th of April! Yahooo! can't wait to perform in front of a live audience and thrill them with our production. It has been a good experie with a super cast of established and new actors here in Nottingham.
I was a bit concerned last week when I managed to put my hip out and had three days off work and a visit to an oestopath. Although I have a few aches and minor discomfort I think I shall be fine.
I confess a small obsession with eBay and have been flogging some of my unwanted dvds and such to pay for some of the nostalgic items I have been tempted to purchase.
Work has been busy too and I am enjoying a coaching role which I recently put myself forward for. I like working with people and seing the direct results of me listening and passing on my own experiences.
The week after the play, our theatre group (The Lace Market Theatre) are hosting a visit of thirty German actors from Karlsruhe. This is a twinning agreement we have where we go over to Germany every two years and perform there and they come over to us to perform two plays here over a period of a week. I have been helping to organise this and am looking forward to seeing them.
I am off work for the whole fortnight leading into Easter and this will give me a good break and more opportunities to read bloggs and to submit my own.
Here is a picture of me in my Levin gear and a drawing I did for fun of the set showing AK, Death and Levin. The three naughty girls are Alison as AK, Antonia as Dolly and Amanda as Kitty.
Znethru
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) Are you allowed to take photos there?
I saw the recent American film version starring Alfred Molina in your role (while on a boat with my mother). They'd condensed it into less than 90 minutes! Pretty amazing bearing in mind that there was a 16 x 1 hour version on TV in the 1970s.
Needless perhaps to say, my mother didn't have the faintest idea what was going on. I told her that unless one had actually read the book it was incredibly hard to follow this (somewhat 'snappy') version of the story.
Hope your performance goes well! Cheers, Z.