Oh my goodness, it feels like years since I last stepped
foot inside a theatre! Not as an audience member at least. I can’t believe I
haven’t blogged since the 1st of March. However, although it was
incredible, I haven’t spent the last
month-and-a-bit recovering from the awesome Assassins at the Menier ChocolateFactory (...a few days, maybe!) No, I’ve actually been quite busy as of late.
Aside from the litany of coursework deadlines I’ve been faced with, I’ve also
been performing in The University of Kent Musical Theatre Society’s production
of Cabaret as everyone’s favourite lady of the night, Fraulein Kost, at the Gulbenkian
Theatre in Canterbury. This was actually my first time performing with the
society, and I couldn't have wished for a better show, or a more talented cast,
to share my inauguration with.
Aside from that, I’ve also been writing a few articles for
London Theatre Direct recently, which has been fun, particularly on April Fool’s Day. However, being an hours train journey away from theatreland when it’s so
late into the term that you have to reconsider whether a pack of own-brand
digestives is really necessary is not a healthy place to be. For this reason I’ve also managed to get myself
a new job... kind of. It’s a casual babysitting job, but every little helps at
this point. Especially given that my trusty old mobile mysteriously disappeared
on my walk to uni a few weeks ago, meaning that I’ve had to invest in a new
phone too.
In a bid to keep me from splurging my last few pennies on
theatre tickets (my local theatre is blessed with so many amazing touring
productions that even if I had unlimited money there wouldn’t be enough time to
see everything I’d want to see) I’ve also been experimenting with cooking more adventurously,
using a vegetarian cookbook which my mom bought me as a going-to-uni present
last year. I’ve made some great meals (if I do say so myself) including
couscous stuffed peppers, butternut squash enchiladas and my personal
favourite, poached eggs Florentine with spinach and cheddar…on a bagel! Yum!
Thankfully though, I do have a couple more theatre trips coming
up before the end of term. This weekend I’m off to see the West End transfer of
Tooting Arts Club’s production of Sweeney Todd in the pie shop on Shaftesbury
Avenue, followed by the final performance of Made in Dagenham in the evening. I’ve
also got a ticket to see Top Hat at the Marlowe Theatre, and finally I’ll be
dropping in to The Playhouse Theatre to see Woman On The Verge Of A Nervous
Breakdown on my way home, although it stupidly hadn’t occurred to me that I’d
have my suitcase with me and I had to ring up the theatre in a panic to ask if
there would be anywhere for me to drop it off. Thank goodness for the
cloakroom!
After Easter I enter my final term as a first year student,
so I’ve no idea what sort of stuff I’ll be seeing. In a perfect world, I’d love
to see the How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying concert, starring
Jonathan Groff, which is playing in London for one night only in May, and I’m
also eyeing up High Society at The Old Vic and the UK tour of The Car Man, which
my favourite ballet dancer Dominic North is due to star in. For now though, I
am mostly looking forward to seeing my family for the first time since Christmas,
and sheltering away from all shops/Starbuckses/ shows until the next student
loan payment comes through, so I can stop worrying about money, pay my rent and then see what happens next!
Charlotte xx
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"Soon, says a whisper, arise arise,tomorrow belongs to me..."
The lyrics to the final song of act 1 in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret are absolutely chilling!
