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September 20th 2007 7 o' clock and all's well! |
A very good read through, I think. We managed to get through the whole play without too much incident. I am happy with what I have. There are one or three parts still to be taken but all in all not a bad start. I do dislike being SO tightly cast, though. It doesn't give any room for the inevitable 'drop outs' (The price one pays working in amateur theatre.) but tis early days. |
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September 21st 2007 Entertain me. Peel me a grape. |
Not really Alice blog but I HAVE to mention Beauty and the Beast, Moira's excellent poetry and prose. I thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Excellent entertainment. |
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September 24th 2007 If you prick me, do I not bleed? |
I have come to the conclusion that I should take up a different hobby. I'm really not suited to AMATEUR drama at all. I expect too much of people. I expect people to appreciate the amount of time I put in to writing and producing plays. Pros do that by paying for what you do. A writer may be nearly at the bottom of the food chain in professional theatre but at least people respect what he/she does. If I were not an absolutely stubborn and rather unemotional person. I would throw up my hands in despair and say a pox on all of you, pack up my traps and go. I was expecting drop outs but from the children but not Chrissie but she didn't like the script (She scarcely had time to read it) and she can't work with me. G*d preserve me from bloody divas. What a strange world we live in. |
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25th September 2007 Blowing MY top.
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Tonight's Committee Meeting gave me a chance to blow my top and air MY feelings. A thousand blessings on Lesley. She has spoken to Linda Cowee and Linda WOULD like to take part. |
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27th September 2007 Another faller by the wayside. |
De ja vu, all over again. It's starting to feel like The Flute. At least we are getting the drop outs early in the production so if I do have to pull the plug I won't have wasted too much time on it and the Society will have a chance to find something else. I ask again, in the name of G*d, why do I do this? |
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30th September 2007 In answer to the question
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I do this, as I have been mulling over most of the weekend in my frazzled head, I do this because I want to. I joined the society because I wanted to and as writing is just about the only contribution I can make, that is what I do. I do it because people ask me to. I'm not egotistical enough to think that they ask me because my work is SO brilliant. Unfortunately I am cynical enough -- and who wouldn't be after nearly forty years writing for a living -- to believe that the main reasons they ask is because it doesn't cost them and they know they'll get someone willing to try and direct and organise the thing. Ah well, that's life. |
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1st October 2007 Another day another doughnut |
I wish I was the kind of person who really didn't mind walking on eggshells around other people, someone who could really take the feelings of others into consideration but I'm not. I go stomping around, clattering into other folks' prejudices and resenting them for getting in the way of what I want to achieve . Like me or loath me that's the way I am and I'm not going to change now |