Monday, February 19, 2007

It's time to put on Make-up, it's time to....

light the light, it's time to meet the muppets on the muppet show tonight....boom boom boom...

Strange...anyway, this post is linked to our performances over the weekend. For the first time in 10 years Tony and I were on stage together.... we have a history....that's where it all started, but since then we have both acted in a number of bits and pieces, but never together....till saturday night. I have pics of our cast on my camera, but unfortunately forgot to bring it to work today...today I was a little busy this morning...more about that later....much later!

Back to the play. Friday evening we had a dress rehearsal which went ok...for the youth group at home. Good not to have too good of a dress rehearsal they say. Saturday then we made our way to Tuam where the competition was on. We were the third play of the night. Didn't really see the other two...we were too busy getting ourselves made up etc. Some of the gang were nervous..I wasn't too bad, cos I had no lines 'the utterly silent character' that's me. Our play went without a hitch...one little giggle from Mary and the music at the end was a bit too low, but otherwise got plenty of laughs and a good response from the audience. All in all we were all happy. The adjudicator gave his comments at the end, and it would seem we got the best feedback. He was very thorough in his comments (a bit long winded tbh) but went through all the pros and cons for everyone. He asked for a round of applause for me (hurrah, I was quite funny it seems....for one who doesn't talk) so I was happy enough. Tony got good comments too, as did most of our gang. He said Gary needed to speak up and Ann-marie needed to calm down...she overacted a bit. Funniest comment though was he said that the 'love' scene wasn't convincing enough because they didn't hug or embrace tightly....this refers to Tony and Caroline. T said she didn't respond to his hugging! Anyway, adjudicator said he realised that it was difficult to do 'love' scenes especially if your wife is in the audience or whatever!! If only he knew I was smack bang on the stage between the two of them!

Home to the pub for a glass of the black stuff and we were tucked up in bed by 2. Eilis had a sleepover with her cousins....had a ball, of course. Nice to have a lie-in...till 9. Had dinner with Tony's parents and went visiting...cousins with a belated birthday pressie and also back to Dave to give him plans of our house to cost for us. Back to my house to say hi to the other grandparents and then tony dropped the car off to the garage man for a service..... Eilis stayed with her cousins again last night and we headed back to tuam for the next two plays and the results.

Had seen the first play before. Acting was good, but they missed a couple of crucial bits I felt...Second play was dismal (in my honest opinion)...actors were ok, hadn't practiced enough and you could see 'through' the set changes cos they kept walking behind the set, and the play itself is pretty confusing...even at the best of times. I was uninterested. Adjudicator spoke about both...didn't slate the last one, but I suppose you can't be too hard on them. Anyway, we were quietly hoping that even if we didn't win, we'd get through in second place to the next round.... Unfortunately we didn't :( The first play from Sunday won awards all round and came first. Tony won most promising male actor (yay, something for our house at least), but nothing else for the group. The play that was on before us on Saturday came second. Everyone was quite shocked to be honest. Anyway, we'll live to fight another day...T says we're not giving up till we win it at least once.....we'll see!

Sorry for long post. This seems to always happen cos I haven't blogged over the weekend. Also, i know I need to get more pics into this....will work on that for sure. tomorrow you get the cast and crew....

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