Well! Haven't I been the busy bee of late! One thing after another and all of that jazz! Where to begin!?
Well I guess I will begin with my trip to London that was far too short for my liking I must say! I popped down to London to visit my good friend and fellow actor, Adam Alexander in his professional stage debut. The show was held at the White Bear Theatre and was essentially two plays in one, Miss in her Teens and A Will and No Will both of which are 18th Century Farces and were produced by Mr Hart's Theatre Company. The show was fantastic with the venue really adding that personal and intimate feel that made the experience all that more amusing and enjoyable. The performances were strong across the whole cast and the character acting was superb!
I was lucky enough after the performance to be introduced to the cast and indeed Mr Hart himself and I'd like to take the opportunity to thank them all for being so hospitable and supportive of an actor in training.
But I have been complaining about my business and you may be wondering what I have been up to. Well, as of a couple of weeks ago my theatre company which we are setting up as part of our course was "semi-officially" set up (I say semi-officially because we have not yet actually officially formed, in a sense it is a mock formation as part of our course but we have to behave and function just as an actual company would. Besides, we have every intention of forming the company proper once our course is finished). Anyhow, with some of the paper-work done I am now Chairman of Tap The Table Theatre and have busily been trying to run the company as efficiently as possible. I have quickly come to realise just why business men are perceived to have very little in the way of personal life! But I am enjoying it all the same and have been worried on many occasions that I am turning into a workaholic!
So not only are we trying to run a company right now but we are also intensely planning for the company's first two projects, one of which is now in full swing! That first project is, I believe, going to be incredibly rewarding as it is a piece of Reminiscence Theatre in which we will be working with elderly residents of a Residential Home in Northampton. The idea being, for those who know very little of Reminiscence Theatre, is that we go in, talk to the residents and gather as much information as we can about their lives and try to focus on a particular time period. We will then take their stories and memories and try as much as we can to create a piece of theatre to perform to them in the hopes that it will help the residents recall their memories even more vividly than they had before. Our plan is also to make the production as interactive for them as possible, even if only limited to verbal interaction.
The project also has the potential to be all the more rewarding due to the fact that the majority of residents at our venue suffer from various levels of dementia and so any point at which we can help the participants recall their memories will be all the more poignant and helpful for them. Already we have visited the residency twice and have met some fantastic people with incredibly moving stories to tell and we look forward to working very closely with them and indeed seeing their reaction to our work.
And of course on top of that project we are also planning for our negotiated project which will take place in the early summer term in 2011. That project is still very much in it's planning stages and I can't at this stage reveal any more than I have already but we are very excited to see how it turns out.
I wish I could tell you all more about what's going on...all I can say is that it is all very exciting, unpredictable and hectic but I'm loving every second. Christmas is only around the corner and I have actively been listening to some christmas music and coming to terms with this being my last Christmas at University, a very saddening thought. But I shall keep you all as up to date as I can at the moment.
My main form of communication with you at the moment is my Twitter, as I can luckily update that on the go and in a matter of mere seconds, so if you do not yet follow me on there then you can find me @Wayne_Ingram and hopefully you will get some idea as to what is going on right now.
Sorry I couldn't chat for longer! Busy busy busy!!!
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