Just to say that re the Bells palsy i am still a bit lopsided of face, and find it difficult to drink without a straw and eating is a problem. Speech is odd but not incomprehensible and at last after ten hard days work i am getting some rest so hopefully I can begin the road to recovery. The prognosis is that most people recover within two or three months so fingers crossed. here's to a slightly quiet end of the year, looking a little like an enigmatic haddock on a fishmongers slab!
The Waiting Game
Most people, if they’re lucky, only do three or four job interviews in their life. A couple of shifts here, a rung or two up the ladder there, and before you know it you’re in a swivel chair with a pension scheme and a lanyard. Lovely. For actors, it’s different. We do them all the time. Weekly, sometimes daily. Except we don’t call them interviews. We call them auditions. These days, that often means a self-tape — two syllables that strike more fear into the average actor than “tax return”. Picture the scene: you, in front of the only bit of white wall in your flat that isn’t cracked, crooked or adorned with a poster of Les Mis. You’re trying to summon the emotions of a broken man while balancing your phone on a stack of cookbooks and praying the neighbour’s dog doesn’t start yapping during your big moment. You send it off, you wait, you hear nothing. Then weeks later you’re watching telly with a digestive and a cuppa when there it is — the very job you auditioned for, being play...
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