A Few Good Men… And One Budgie
A Few Good Men: 25th – 28th January 2012 Left to right, in rehearsal: Lyle (Vicky), Sam Weinberg (John), Daniel Kaffee (Ben), Capt. Whitaker (me) and Jo Galloway, (Kelly). Photo by Craig Greenslade I’ve been at it again with a couple of local theatre productions. Theatre At Baddow’s major January production was Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men, a huge challenge for its first time director, Pat Willis, not just because it’s a long, wordy play and full of legalese, ...
84 Charing Cross Road
Bravely (or foolishly, they can be much the same) I agreed to direct Theatre At Baddow’s January 2010 production. The director gets to choose the play, the Committee decide whether you should be allowed to go ahead and spend their money. I chose “84 Charing Cross Road” due to its small cast, relatively static set and minimal scene changes and I’d read the book on which the play is based in my teens. Not that I was expecting it to ...
Twelve Rum Babas
Did a bit more acting. Again with Theatre At Baddow, where I played Trudy in Alan Ayckbourn’s black comedy Man Of The Moment. Lots of crying, fighting, romance and dragging bodies out of swimming pools. And that was just my part. Nice review here, from Michael Gray’s Arts Blog.
