Cyberclogs

Well its not over yet of course but its been quite a year for me so far, I've had a very busy acting season as our class and group (in some form or other) have been doing classes fairly constantly on and off since the end of January right up until 1 December there. And on Monday night I had my last acting class of the year with Iain McAleese, sadly that night also clashed with Scott's Citizen Theatre group class who were doing a showcase there, and it would have been nice to have seen that.

But it was a great last class as everyone did their chosen scenes for Iain, my two scenes went down pretty well as I did the Glass Menagerie with Gill (who was terrific and did a wonderful Southern accent) I played the angry irate son Tom and Gill played my controlling mother Amanda. For the other scene I did Glengarry Glen Ross with Mark, as I played Moss and Mark played Aaronow, given the short space of time we had to rehearse it, the scene flowed pretty well. The others in the class did very well, the Memories of Water, a 3 hander with Kathleen, Judith and Fliss worked really well. Arlene and Fliss did a funny scene from Alphabetical Order a Michael Frayn play, which was nicely played by Arlene who played the comedic character and Fliss was the straight man (or woman, who did some fine character acting as a manager, you could believe she was working there!). And Judith and Fliss at the end of the night did great with a scene from Rebecca, Judith in the space of the week had gone from one initial read through without knowing the lines to completely memorising her lengthy long passages of dialogue, in short she did great!

So that was that, Iain gave us all some nice feedback after class, we might end up doing some more classes next year with Iain so I'll be prepared to take another Iain bashing (in the best possible sense of course!) also might consider doing the Citizens Theatre classes next year too, see how it goes. And that's the acting over for now folks.

So last night I went to see Alan and Arlene do their debut comedy performance up at Maggie May's pub in Glasgow, as part of their stand-up comedy class at Strathclyde Uni they get to do a live show and do five minutes of material each. The acts were all good and quite individualistic in their approaches to comedy, Alan and Arlene were both very funny, some good well observed material I thought, ranging from the terror of pound shops to rats with tampax. Sadly Gordon from our acting group who was part of the stand up class was also supposed to do a performance but he didn't show, ah well, there's always next time. To be honest though it looked like a lot of fun to do stand up comedy althought it definitely looked scary but the audience were all very supportive and there was minimum heckling.

So there we go, got a quiet week ahead for a change, will be going to see the Radio Theatre Group's Festive Fear show on Saturday night, which I look forward to, its a collection of short Festive radio plays this time rolled into an 3 night run this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. So I'll post up something about that fairly soon.