Well alright this is one of the later installments of my New Year's resolution but I was quite busy at the time so didn't really get a chance to implement everything at once. Hello again, and hello (if you''ve not read before, I advise to skip to the earlier posts, occasionally they're funny).
I'd catch up if there were any thing interesting to report but essentially since then I have:
Shouted at tourists of varying ages, nationalities and weights during Halloween week
Performed Marieke with the DareDevil Divas (got to see Anna Fur Laxis do her axe throwing show from the wings, an extraordinary moment).
Toured the old peoples homes of the midlands bringing a brittle cheeriness to elderly types who looked up my (admittedly short) skirt. Main feature: snow.
Toured schools and gained much music knowledge, again in the midlands.
Had a mid-twenties crisis and cut my hair short. Still pretty sure it was the right thing to do but wasn't prepared for the curliness. Without straighteners I look like the main character from Enid Blyton's Mallory Towers.
Non-stop excitement I'm sure you'll agree. The burlesque bit rears its head again in a couple of weeks as I sing again for the opening of 'The Dare Devil Diva Gallery of Super Heroes & Alter Egos.' Bit of a mouthful? It's alright, you don't have to say it, just turn up of you're in the area (Tobacco Factory, march 8), I'm making cakes too. The rest you can get from Facebook; it's nice and obvious, I keep re-posting it. There's a photograph of me there, and of other fantastic, scary, marvellous women. I'm so sorry, I can't help but go a 'Vagina Monologues' whenever I talk about Drastic Productions, but they really are brilliant. I could go on and on but that would be gushing and that's not very appropriate or English, is it? No, reader, it most certainly is not. The professional upside is that I think I'm slowly getting to grips with the Brewery Theatre, and hopefully the Tobacco Factory theatre after the exhibition. To me the latter does everything a theatre should: it promotes new writing and classics, fringe tours and mainstage headliners, has a brilliant cafe/bar/restaurant which also has live music (usually as I'm rushing past to something else, regrettably) and a sunday morning market which sells Bath Soft Cheese. It interacts with its Southville community while continuing to make great art and entertain a packed house. I only hope I get to work there for real one day rather than simply eulogising about it endlessly while sneaking in cupcakes for burlesque artists. Although that's a pretty glamorous alternative.
Will update in a more coherent fashion soon, thank you for listening.
Ta-ra
If you'd like to, there's a video by the excellent Vivi Mimola charting the DDDs' journey too. Have a look, do.
