So the first session of the Actors’ Factory has now also happened.<\/p>\n
It’s such an exciting time for me, seeing a dream coming to fruition and seeing people like the talented Nick Campbell, actor extraordinaire,\u00a0coming along to support the group and enjoy himself doing what he does best.\u00a0 We’ve already started making plans for shooting short films and full-length films and entering festivals and I’m having a ball.\u00a0 Numbers could have been higher, but it was Bank Holiday weekend and I’m sure that once the ball starts rolling nothing will stop us.\u00a0 As I said in my last blog, you don’t have to be an amateur or professional actor to attend, but the training you’ll be getting will be at professional standard and as a performer you’ll be pro-active and\u00a0creating your own future.\u00a0 And if you just want the experience and some fun, then you’ll get loads out of being a member of the Actors’ Factory, too.<\/p>\n
It was also nice after the session to have a long catch up with Mark Bentley, the owner of Stages Studios – it had been far too long.\u00a0 And then I had a nice slow drive back to Westcliff where the beef and sweet potato in tomato sauce I’d left simmering in the slow cooker was just about ready to eat.\u00a0 Delicious!\u00a0 And then a watch of my favourite programme of the week – Off Their Rockers.\u00a0 I love it!\u00a0 Not only does it make me laugh, but it restores my faith in human nature because on the whole people are kind and patient.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Why isn’t it like that in my real life?\u00a0 In my real life people are rude and pushy.\u00a0 In Tesco’s the other day I was losing the will to live.\u00a0 I appeared to be the only person who was awake and\/or looking where they were going.\u00a0 And as I’ve said before, I take my hats off to the women who shop with their menfolk.\u00a0 Why does the man have to veto everything that goes into the shopping trolley?\u00a0\u00a0 Why does there have to be a full debate over whether to buy John West salmon or Tesco’s own?\u00a0 Why do men have to squeeze every avocado\/tomato\/lemon\/loaf before buying it?\u00a0 Just asking…….\u00a0 not man-bashing!<\/p>\n
Today Westcliff is grid-locked with day trippers.\u00a0 I was going to go for a walk along the cliffs at Leigh but decided against it.\u00a0 Too many people.\u00a0 I’m going to sit in my garden with a glass of Crabbie’s Ginger Beer and my book instead.\u00a0 I know how to have a good time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So the first session of the Actors’ Factory has now also happened. It’s such an exciting time for me, seeing a dream coming to fruition and seeing people like the talented Nick Campbell, actor extraordinaire,\u00a0coming along to support the group … Continue reading