Blog 21 – Life’s a Rehearsal …On every blog, Ms Paige Turner tells an intentional fib. The first one in receives a prize and this bi-month it’s four free Creative Ink handout sheets …
Life’s a rehearsal because it’s about exploration and discovery; it’s about being on time and respecting others’ time. Rehearsals and life are about pushing out the boundaries and laughter and tears and meeting and greeting and sometimes kissing. Life and rehearsals are about trying to make the moments the best they can possibly be for oneself and for others and being ‘in the moment’ because if you aren’t it really isn’t working at all. It’s about work and discipline and fun and experiments and I can think of no better analogy for what life should be but a great rehearsal.
I love rehearsals and as of next week I’m back to what I love doing the most with some of the best and funniest and most talented actors in town as the ‘Dear John’ deadline is up tomorrow – August 1st – and the best monologues are being chosen for yep, rehearsal and then filming. Creative Ink Publishing has raised £720 so far for the British Heart Foundation and the local Hearts & Souls charity but the entries are still rolling in on creativeinkpublishing@gmail.com. The standard was so good and hearts and souls really went into the words. It’s our intention to bring writers and actors together when the long task of rehearsals and filming is over with a presentation. We’ll shortly be publishing the names of short listed writers on my ‘new look’ website www.janmoranneil.co.uk
On my birthday last week I attended a dress rehearsal of Ms www.fairytaledays.co.uk production of ‘Annie’. That night the dog’s understudy had to ‘go on’. I’m all for the underdog. An excellent directorial debut for Ms www.fairytaledays.co.uk
Congratulations to Maggie Crosbie who spotted that we are not having a bedroom extension here – Mr Justin Case and I need no extra space in that department. And Ms www.silverscreensuppers.com – neither does my bottom – thank you very much. But our kitchen does and as I type the rumbling of cement is a backdrop. Where there’s cement there’s builders. I’ve learnt that builders have two magic words: ‘cement’ and ‘tea’ …
The mistake in the blog is this: the deadline for the ‘Dear John’ writing competition was July 31st not August 1st!
Really looking forward to the results for the competition 😀