Absence of theatre in my life

I have been crisitized for not seeing enough theatre recently... This has got me to thinking: why is theatre so boring? It can't only be because I've yet to stick my imprint on Drama's jacksie... Theatre is boring because it HAS TO BE... Yes, I know this is a controversial statement, but I really think it's true... Think about it - if theatre WASN'T boring, people would go and check it out, and where would that leave the TV companies what fund theatre slightly? It's in the interests of TV-dom that theatre stays boring so people will stay in watching Ant & Dec and Carol Vooooderman etc... anyway, this is not just my theory - it's also the topic of my upcoming assessment next week...

Oh yes, and I've got a really dull headache. Honestly. It's really getting on my nerves. Quite literally, actually.

Watch this space, okay!!!

Reviews for BRIEF CANDLE/Interview with Catherine Smegs!!!

Hi again!!! I know, I know - I've been very tardy writing my blog... But you know, it's quite difficult juggling all my balls!!! After all, I'm not only a Master of Fine Arts Trainee, I am also a scribe and thinker... Anyway, enough about me - that theatre company, ETIX SAGET FELT, finaly sent me the Edinburgh reviews for their production of my oeuf, BRIEF CANDLE. I can't say I'm sorry I missed it now, after reading these:

"This is a miserable evening in a miserable venue..." Millicent Thistle, The Glasgow Fumes

"I hate theatre, and this is why." Scott Ellison, Richmond Gazebo

I knew it was too ambitious a work for a tuppenny threepenny set-up and these reactions confirm it.

However! I have recently had the great honour of meeting and interviewing Catherine Smegs, currently starring in EURYTHRITIS at the National. We met over a cup of campuchino in the NT's backstage snug. Here is what she said:

SS: Catherine, thank you so much for agreeing to be interviewed for my blog!!!

CS: Could you pass me that spoon?

(I do so.)

SS: You're currently starring in EURYTHRITIS by Syphilis. Is that a challenge?

CS: (stirring her campuchino) In what way?

SS: I regret I have yet to see it but the word on the street is that it's amazingly challenging.

CS: What word on which street? Who are you, anyway? How did you get in here?

SS: (laughing with abandon) Seriously though... I bought the playtext and it's very verbose.

CS: Do security know?

SS: Your character, Eurythritis, spends most of the second act upside down and naked. Is that what attracted you to the role?

CS: Goodbye.

Catherine Smegs as Eurythritis


I think you must agree - this is quite a coup. I plan to publish this interview - alongside my most memorable essays - in a forthcoming Shaun Spock's Guide To Directing For Novices... Watch this space!!!