Better Late than Never...
Written a couple of weeks ago on Sarah Island one afternoon:
Well, it's about time I wrote an update! (ironically I didn't get to type it for another two weeks!!) I have been trying to get to this for weeks, but as it's not top of the priority list, and the list has gone out the window in the last few crazy weeks, I'm only now - a month later - able to write.
They warned us it'd get busy during January, and they weren't wrong! Solidly four tours a day and two shows an evening for the entire month - enough work to keep us all busy busy busy. It's only just slowing down now - the numbers last week have dropped dramatically which makes me cross my fingers for a bit of work for both Dav and I after Easter! The plan is now to work here until late May / early June if possible - and then go walking the Overland track (early May, if we can get there!) and do a bit of travelling as well, if we're lucky.
Dav is currently also in the middle of trying to plan 'West Side Story' - he begins directing next Monday, in a week's time! But before he goes, we have two days off in Hobart together, which we are both very much looking forward to. A well-deserved break before we part for two months :(.
We are going to stay with Franz and his wife Belinda in Cygnet, south of Hobart, and will spend one of those days / evenings out at Port Arthur, where Andrew now works, and where he has been able to get us free entry, cruises and tours. So I'm very much looking forward to seeing what goes on there, and how they've done it all up in the last few years. I'd also like to stop at Derwent Bridge, and in Richmond (to see the prison there) if we get a chance. Dav suspects we will be 'historied out' by the end of the trip. If we can manage it, we'll head to Salamanca markets early on Saturday, before we head out to the airport, where Dav is bound for Rockhampton and I for Melbourne for two days. It will be good to see the city again, and say hi to a few people, but I'll also be busy there - doing a photo shoot for Frozen Instant Imagery on the Sunday, out in Glen Waverly; seeing Ben's impro show on Sunday night; and doing at least two auditions on Monday (one of whch requires not only a monologue but also a song! Dav has been teaching me a song from Hair though, and I am loving learning to sing again - it's also helping my voice). Oh, and I'm also squeezing a driving lesson in on Saturday, and hopefully a trip to the movies (which I am most excited about!) on Saturday night with Annabel, whom I am staying with.
We, in fact, have Annabel staying with us at the moment! She came down for the weekend to visit. Very exciting, as she is the first Melbourne friend to actually take us up on the offer of a place to stay in Strahan. We have had a lovely (if slightly wet!) weekend - we drove out to Trial Harbour yesterday for lunch; then Annabel saw the show last night; and this morning I went up the river with her on the Gordon River Cruises, and it was a gorgeous '3 season' trip - with a bit of sun, rain and mist. I have no idea what she thinks of the job we do down here, but it's fun showing her around. Hopefully, we'll get out to dinner tonight, if the White Boat doesn't get in too late!
I had a great tour this morning - a smallish but appreciative audience, with some very boisterous boys who I managed to get on side. I do enjoy working with kids. It presents a different sort of challenge. One of the auditions next Monday is for TIE work, and while the company does not pay fantastically, it could be great experience.
I am falling asleep, as we didn't get to bed til late last night - and I'm not sure if WHC is coming back for an afternoon cruise or not at this stage! There were only 6 booked on this morning!
I was telling Annabel that the most stressful thing about this job, once u've got all the basics down, is the tour timing, and the pressure we are under to keep it tight. Dav and I seem to have got it down fairly pat though... I'm looking forward to playing Shires to his Porter when he gets back though, to give my voice a break. I've been doing lots of fitness and physical training, and a little bit of acro thrown in, but my voice warm-ups are pretty non-existant, I am shamed to admit. I have pledged to re-purchase "Freeing the Natural Voice" (which I lent out and now can't remember to who!) and to start doing something about it, as I managed to damage my voice in November, and while it goes up and down it has not yet fully recovered! I know I have to get it off my throat - I am just not sure how yet. I need to do some more vocal and breath training in general - it's been a while...
I still have not much idea of where I'll be in the second half of the year, although I have some exciting prospects. Lynne has asked me to organise Melbourne Stomp again, this time for July, and for 25 participants. The timing works well, as if I'm accepted into SITI I will head O/S immediately afterwards. As part of my payment, I will also be doing Winter Stomp in Montville in June, for the first time, which is very exciting / scary! Of course, if I manage to get this 6 weeks of work that I'm auditioning for, at the Sydney Opera House / Fairfax, that will put a spanner in the whole works. But both prospects are exciting. And I'm slowly trying to get my passport and British Ancestry Visa sorted at the moment as well. I have to find out whether this gives you working rights in the EU at all... and whether I can get working rights for Dav as well...
Dav and I are still debating how to afford living over in Europe and the UK... We are looking at various options - teaching English, WOOFing, whether Dav can get regular pub work (I know I can - although the least preferred option for both of us!); touring theatre work would be ideal bit I'm not holding my breath for that! But just the thought of travelling with Dav is exciting. I can't wait to visit some of the places he's told me about; and some neither of us know! I am also really looking forward to studying O/S, and checking iur the theatre scene in the UK and Europe. As I told Dav, I don't want to travel fancily, but I do want to put aside funds to see theatre all over the world. Wonder what my blog will read like then??
Well, it's about time I wrote an update! (ironically I didn't get to type it for another two weeks!!) I have been trying to get to this for weeks, but as it's not top of the priority list, and the list has gone out the window in the last few crazy weeks, I'm only now - a month later - able to write.
They warned us it'd get busy during January, and they weren't wrong! Solidly four tours a day and two shows an evening for the entire month - enough work to keep us all busy busy busy. It's only just slowing down now - the numbers last week have dropped dramatically which makes me cross my fingers for a bit of work for both Dav and I after Easter! The plan is now to work here until late May / early June if possible - and then go walking the Overland track (early May, if we can get there!) and do a bit of travelling as well, if we're lucky.
Dav is currently also in the middle of trying to plan 'West Side Story' - he begins directing next Monday, in a week's time! But before he goes, we have two days off in Hobart together, which we are both very much looking forward to. A well-deserved break before we part for two months :(.
We are going to stay with Franz and his wife Belinda in Cygnet, south of Hobart, and will spend one of those days / evenings out at Port Arthur, where Andrew now works, and where he has been able to get us free entry, cruises and tours. So I'm very much looking forward to seeing what goes on there, and how they've done it all up in the last few years. I'd also like to stop at Derwent Bridge, and in Richmond (to see the prison there) if we get a chance. Dav suspects we will be 'historied out' by the end of the trip. If we can manage it, we'll head to Salamanca markets early on Saturday, before we head out to the airport, where Dav is bound for Rockhampton and I for Melbourne for two days. It will be good to see the city again, and say hi to a few people, but I'll also be busy there - doing a photo shoot for Frozen Instant Imagery on the Sunday, out in Glen Waverly; seeing Ben's impro show on Sunday night; and doing at least two auditions on Monday (one of whch requires not only a monologue but also a song! Dav has been teaching me a song from Hair though, and I am loving learning to sing again - it's also helping my voice). Oh, and I'm also squeezing a driving lesson in on Saturday, and hopefully a trip to the movies (which I am most excited about!) on Saturday night with Annabel, whom I am staying with.
We, in fact, have Annabel staying with us at the moment! She came down for the weekend to visit. Very exciting, as she is the first Melbourne friend to actually take us up on the offer of a place to stay in Strahan. We have had a lovely (if slightly wet!) weekend - we drove out to Trial Harbour yesterday for lunch; then Annabel saw the show last night; and this morning I went up the river with her on the Gordon River Cruises, and it was a gorgeous '3 season' trip - with a bit of sun, rain and mist. I have no idea what she thinks of the job we do down here, but it's fun showing her around. Hopefully, we'll get out to dinner tonight, if the White Boat doesn't get in too late!
I had a great tour this morning - a smallish but appreciative audience, with some very boisterous boys who I managed to get on side. I do enjoy working with kids. It presents a different sort of challenge. One of the auditions next Monday is for TIE work, and while the company does not pay fantastically, it could be great experience.
I am falling asleep, as we didn't get to bed til late last night - and I'm not sure if WHC is coming back for an afternoon cruise or not at this stage! There were only 6 booked on this morning!
I was telling Annabel that the most stressful thing about this job, once u've got all the basics down, is the tour timing, and the pressure we are under to keep it tight. Dav and I seem to have got it down fairly pat though... I'm looking forward to playing Shires to his Porter when he gets back though, to give my voice a break. I've been doing lots of fitness and physical training, and a little bit of acro thrown in, but my voice warm-ups are pretty non-existant, I am shamed to admit. I have pledged to re-purchase "Freeing the Natural Voice" (which I lent out and now can't remember to who!) and to start doing something about it, as I managed to damage my voice in November, and while it goes up and down it has not yet fully recovered! I know I have to get it off my throat - I am just not sure how yet. I need to do some more vocal and breath training in general - it's been a while...
I still have not much idea of where I'll be in the second half of the year, although I have some exciting prospects. Lynne has asked me to organise Melbourne Stomp again, this time for July, and for 25 participants. The timing works well, as if I'm accepted into SITI I will head O/S immediately afterwards. As part of my payment, I will also be doing Winter Stomp in Montville in June, for the first time, which is very exciting / scary! Of course, if I manage to get this 6 weeks of work that I'm auditioning for, at the Sydney Opera House / Fairfax, that will put a spanner in the whole works. But both prospects are exciting. And I'm slowly trying to get my passport and British Ancestry Visa sorted at the moment as well. I have to find out whether this gives you working rights in the EU at all... and whether I can get working rights for Dav as well...
Dav and I are still debating how to afford living over in Europe and the UK... We are looking at various options - teaching English, WOOFing, whether Dav can get regular pub work (I know I can - although the least preferred option for both of us!); touring theatre work would be ideal bit I'm not holding my breath for that! But just the thought of travelling with Dav is exciting. I can't wait to visit some of the places he's told me about; and some neither of us know! I am also really looking forward to studying O/S, and checking iur the theatre scene in the UK and Europe. As I told Dav, I don't want to travel fancily, but I do want to put aside funds to see theatre all over the world. Wonder what my blog will read like then??
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