Play time

The trouble with directing a play is that it takes over your life. And giving oneself a part in it, however small, just makes things more complicated. I guess Clint Eastwood gets lots of help though, and at present I feel distinctly unhelped! Apart from having one character who has been cast 3 times, to have the actress withdraw days or a day later - and still not know who is exactly going to play it, we have a minor role which needs to be played by a young man, and the youth who was cast for that appears to be pleasant but very unreliable. I suppose when I chose a play requiring a cast of 16 I knew I was in for trouble.
The optimist in me says that the other members of the team are an excellent collection of experienced amateur actors who will do a wonderful job, and rehearsals are still producing more and more laughs (it is a farce). And not all my options have been exhausted, although I'm beginning to yearn for a little security. Perhaps tonight is the night on which I will finally feel we've got everything in place?

Dreary Sunday

The weather has been absolutely lousy today - and then, around 4.30pm its cheered up. Blue sky and the birds are out again - still a few swallows about. So done little today apart from go to church (and worry about about I'm actually confessing to), watch the grand prix and play on the laptop.
Mrs L is going through CD tracks that a friend is going to prepare as a 'Desert Island Discs' for her birthday party. Which means that with her love of choral music, the room is filled with a selection of some of the most atmospheric singing that has ever been written. Could be worse!

New Laptop

Well - I thought that since I'd spent a good few hours today unpacking and installing software on the new laptop that arrived this morning, it was a good time to start blogging. Plus the fact that one of my chums has just gone off on holiday for a week, so that's one less person to gossip with. The vagueries of the rehearsal schedule I've produced for The Feydeau farce I'm directing mean that I'm free until Monday evening (and then only have Thursday free for the rest of the week!) So I need to do a bit of caring for Mrs L to make up for the evenings I'll be out after this.
Colder today, obviously - the cat has spent more of the day indoors and has just landed for the evening, a good 5 hours before he usually does.