Hello world!
Maybe I will actually keep ‘hello world’ as my first post title. At the moment I’m in New York under a beautiful blue sky. Sitting on a stairwell looking at a beautiful blue house. Perhaps my brother will come by and then I can get him to take a picture of said blue house. I have to be quick so I can rehearse my (very few) lines I have for a play tonight. I am to play a weary traveller in the kingdom of Akbar the Great, the legendary Moghul Emperor of India, who gets captured after stealing a box of treasure because he was upset at the way he got treated. So I am in quite an angry state in the play, but I am remembering some advice from a good friend of mine who directed a play I was in when I was in college - she said ‘whatever you do, don’t think “OK now I have to be angry” ‘. I guess she means that it is more important to have a oneness with the character you are playing. Which is a bit hard because the play is partly comedy. Must remember not to yell too much. I had an unfortunate experience at age 7 when I was narrator of a nativity play performed in front of the whole local community, and I shouted the whole script into a microphone, deafening the audience. Twenty years later, when I go to visit my parents, I still get people (my mother’s friends, usually) coming up to me, shouting “Jesus, Mary and Joseph!” - mimicking my childhood performance.
Hello Shane. Nice to see you have a blog!