You're a what?
A less-than-triumphant return
This March I will trod the boards again
for the first time in, oh... 26 years.
As...
(wait for
it)
A
courtesan.
Like
I mentioned in my blogiversary post, I bid on and won a walk-on part in St.
Louis Shakespeare's spring production of
A Comedy of
Errors. Let's face it, there's not a
lot "spare parts" in that play. Especially for women. Hell, there's not but
five women's speaking parts in the thing, and Aemilia (the abbess / long-lost
mother) is the only one where you'd
want
to use a mature woman rather than your usual twenty-something actress if you had
one available, which is why I didn't bother to haul mine own self to the
auditions. So, when I bought the walk-on, I knew I had limited uses: spare
household servant to Adriana, member of the Courtesan's household, or spare nun
in Aemilia's priory. And when the rehearsal schedule came out, I emailed the
stage manager to find out what they had in mind for the middle-aged woman with
unknown (to them) acting ability who'd bought her way into the cast. And the
answer came back, "I think [the director] wants to use you as a Courtesan... she
was going to speak to you to see what days fit your schedule
best."Ho - kaaaaay. Curves, I
got. But jowls and love handles I got, too. I guess I'll be a well-fed,
seen-better-days courtesan. And if she needs a spare servant or nun, I can do
that, too.
Posted: Sun - January 13, 2008 at 02:32 PM
Home
|
|
View Technorati reactions
> >
