It’s been a long week. My long week started last week, on Saturday, when I had to get up at 9am after foolishly staying out until 2 drinking Guinness with fellow actors from my upcoming show. However, up I got into the unseasonably hot day and drove to New Jersey to pick up a HUGE slide and lumber for the show I am in/producing. Typically, our lumber order was not ready, they didn’t recognise our tax exemption status, yadda yadda yadda. By the time we got finished, back to the theatre, unloaded all the crap onto the freight elevator and into the space, back to NJ to drop off the truck and pick up my car, it was 3pm. I was late and I had two friends coming to my house. Just at that moment, the George Washington Bridge decided to get full of traffic. PANIC. Made it home just in time, had a lovely afternoon of chanting and talking about all things SGI (my buddhist organisation) and drank a whole bottle of wine that night while watching State of Play on DVD.

Perhaps foolishly again, I didn’t go to bed until 1am and I was up at 8 to drive to the theatre and spend the whole day loading in the show, rigging lights and building the set. By the end of Sunday, I was ready for the weekend again.

However – the show looks great, tech and dress have gone well and we are ready to open tonight – yay! Now I just need to summon up some energy from somewhere (am hoping that Starbucks will continue to aid in this quest) and try to be the ditzy ingenue in a crazy 19th century farce for the 8 performances. Wish me luck. Oh yeah, and buy a ticket. We need an audience!

King O'Neil

April 30 – May 9, 2009

What happens when elementary schoolers get their hands on a classic English farce about a drunken Irishman in pre-revolutionary France? Come find out as TheatreRats takes one of theatre’s first prominent female playwright’s most heralded works and presents it to you through the imagination of children.

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Featuring the amazing acting stylings of: Corrie Beula, Walter Brandes*, Greg Engbrecht, Rachel Grundy*, Cedric Jones, Caitlin Johnston, Joe Kurtz, Johnny Blaze Leavitt, Natalie Neckyfarow, Megan O’Leary, Craig Kelton Peterson, Vince Phillip*, Renee Rodriguez, Peter Schuyler, Felicia Eugenia Velasco and Lindsay Kitt Wiebe.

*We iz Equity, yo.

Although I do love the joys of cold, snow, roaring fires and so on, it feels nice after such a long and freezing winter to have a warm, sunny day. The fact that by the end of this weekend the temperature will have doubled in four days is not necessarily great for one’s immune system, but hey. I’ll take the UV – I’m practically transparent at the moment.

Happy Sunshine Friday everyone!

Show number 5 for me this year…I’ve been so lucky to have been kept so busy in 2009 with shows. I’m just hoping that this starts to cross over into my attempts to work on films!

It’s produced by my theatre company, TheatreRats, and we have worked incredibly hard to try and produce something very original in this show. I’m playing the ingenue role for the first time in my life – so it’s an interesting acting challenge for me and I’ve enjoyed the chance to try a different role.

Here’s the info – please support!

What happens when elementary schoolers get their hands on a classic English farce about a drunken Irishman in pre-revolutionary France? Come find out as TheatreRats takes one of theatre’s first prominent female playwright’s most heralded works and presents it to you through the imagination of children.

April 30 – May 9, 2009
Medicine Show Theatre, 549 W. 52nd St., 3rd Fl.
Thursday – Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 7 pm
Extra Show: Saturday May 9 at 2 pm
Tickets: $18 Purchase online or at the door.

It’s been a week of ups and downs for me. I’m having fun working on a show with my own theatre company, for once playing the ingenue character, but a longer-term work opportunity didn’t work out and I got the ‘thanks, but no thanks’ email this week. Coupled with my increasing sense of panic about this triathlon that I have done no training for that is coming up in June and getting some kind of throat bug yesterday, I have to say that I’m really glad it’s Friday.

This weekend will be fun – rehearsal tonight, swimming tomorrow before a rehearsal and last performance of a great show I was involved in called Nab-A-Date, then an early start on Sunday for a private walking tour with the Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl, a short film audition and a buddhist meeting. Bring on the nice weather!

Lucky me, I got a second version of the photos that John took – he changed the layout of my ‘Passion’ photo and came up with this version:

Passion, v.2

Me likey! Also, it doesn’t use one of the pictures where I think I look like a cross between an Anime girl and someone with no nose.