Saturday 9th August 2008
I woke up today, feeling like I’d been drugged. The exhaustion is seeping in-or maybe it’s the cold I have, with the sneezing and runny nose and tickly cough that has been developing steadily these last few days. I am telling myself that it won’t become full blown, that my voice will hold up and I won’t develop pneumonia or anything nasty, not until the show finishes at least! I’ve been taking remedies…but I think it’s a holiday that’s needed.More techy trouble before the show today which delayed our start again; gremlins like these are inevitable at the Fringe. It was a good show tonight, I really thought it was going very well, and then in the last scene my throat started to tickle. Not just a wee tickle, but a not-to-be-ignored tickle. Trish was in full flow, I couldn’t possible cough. I started to heave with the effort of suppressing it; my face went red, the tears flowed down my face, I thought I was going to explode. My turn at last. I coughed! But it wasn’t enough. My throat was so constricted I could hardly speak. I channelled this and the tears into my acting and made out that Jean was very upset. I had to cough again, but still the irritation was not appeased. Trish’s turn again. I started saying ‘Hail Mary’s’ to calm me and my irritable anatomy down. No luck. My turn again, cough cough, tears streaming ( like an allergic reaction). Now I had to sing. Couldn’t. Voice was all over the shop. Again tried to make it look that Jean was so upset she couldn’t sing. Trish came in early in the song to help me out. Thank God! End of show. We took our bow’s and were off. I was so upset I couldn’t even strike the set with the others. These things happen, but it’s terrible when it happens ON STAGE. You feel so exposed…as if you are standing at the mouth of hell just perched to drop into the void! Anyway, I just have to notch it up as yet another weird and wonderful experience in my life of treading the boards. Day off tomorrow, a day of sleeping, cleaning, and laundry; bliss.
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