The Waiting Room

So, another week has passed (quite where it has gone I don’t know, thinking back it’s a bit of a blur!).

View from the tec desk on Wednesday

The main focus of my week has been ‘The Waiting Room’ I show I’ve been working on for the last few months with The Theatre Space. Having been working on it since July, this was the week that we opened, running for three nights. As with any show, having worked on it for months the first night is always the most nerve-wracking as it is the first time an outside eye, who knows nothing about the show, sees it and tells us if the show is actually any good, but Thursday’s audience seemed to like it (I lie, we had a few unexpected audience members for our dress/tec on Wednesday, so Thursday was a little less nerve-wracking). Two days later and it was Saturday, our final show, which seemed to similarly go down well, so well in fact that the write, Phil Lightfoot, came not only on the opening night (talk about pressure, and he was sat two seats away from me!) that he came back on Saturday. All those that I spoke to seemed to enjoy it, so I think we did a good job (any complaints please keep to yourself). Saturday was not only the last performance of ‘The Waiting Room’, but my last show with The Theatre Space as I wander off to university next week. Having worked with them for a few years I was sad to finish the show, but I hope (pretty please Rich) that I’ll be working with them again at some point. Following the show we (those of us who didn’t have to be responsible and go back to our families) went out in Winsford (an interesting experience, as I’m still not sure where Winsford actually is, any suggestions in the comments below please).

Away from the excitement of ‘The Waiting Room’ I’ve pottered around the house as I (mostly my mum, thanks) sorted out moving to uni. I won’t bore you with a blow by blow account of finding everything on my list, so we’ll skip that bit (do let me know

 

if you’d be interested in this though). Wednesday was a nice trip back to school to ‘checkup’ on them and how things are going. Having started to work on ‘Les Mis’ in June I caught up on how things were going, but also what everyone had been up to. It was nice to pop in and see everyone, but odd to no longer be a pupil there. It was a nice way to spend the afternoon (they even fed me! I’ll definitely be going back), but was the first of many good byes as I wander off. I’m sure I will be back there in December.

Saturday morning was a trip to Blackpool (it’s really not as exciting as I had hoped) for a convention. After queueing for an hour (one of my few special skills!) I met four actors who had been in Doctor Who: Jeremy Wilkin, Alan Ruscoe, Sarah Louise Madison and David Graham (no, not the one from Uncle Eric!). All had played various parts in Doctor Who, from the voice of the original Daleks, to a Weeping Angel (two were also the original voices in Thunderbirds!). Whilst it was rather busy, I had an enjoyable trip out. We (Dad and I) wandered around Blackpool (I saw wandered, more like blown along the sea front!), to then head back for ‘The Waiting Room’.

PS. I see that a few people have stumbled across this blog (probably by mistake), but thanks for having a look and I hope my musings and wanderings are of some interest.