Hello sleepless nights and the zombie like state

Me and Sally
The poxy changing rooms
Sally, mark and jane
Wonderful Zoe

Flyering town
The witches of eastwick???
Set taking shape
Neville the real star
Drunken goodness

Well the show is finaly upon us and all that hard work and sweat and blood and guts and toil is finally paying off. So far this week we have been rehearsing every single night at the guild hall under the beady eye of george, our own mr jobsworthy who i get the feeling from doesnt much like this bunch of actors desicrating the historical guildhall! We are not allowed any power for the lights until 530 when the council workers have gone home otherwise we will blow the fuses! this means that mark and the other techies have about 1 1/2 hours to make sure every thing is set and programmed and thats being generous. The first half dress reahearsal finished at about 1020pm so not that bad really, jobsworthy wants us out by 1030 each evening so not impossible. Then came lastnights 2nd half dress rehearsal.......um yeah we finished at about 1055pm! Jobsworthy was looking mighty scary by the curtain call. And as with al the greatest productions we high tail it to the local watering hole, the judges lodgings. All i can say is thnk heavens for late licencing. The people of york dont know whats hit them when we all sit outside (thats about 20-30 of us!) and laugh about the lastest mishaps on stage. A few points of interest are Robin as clifford during the jack cade riot scenes looking like a cross between Blade and a reject from the blue oyster bar. You try to keep a straight face when he come on but it gets increasingly difficult when you can hear mark the director laughing hysterically and i look to sally and andy and can hear them both clearly wispering 'must not laugh, must not laugh'. You can see why young clifford turns in to the child killer he is later in the play when you have a dad like that! A few other things happened such as missed entrances and even no show soldiers to cart off the captured henry leaving bill to improvise as edward and through poor jonathon off stage! Lets see what delights tonights actually performance brings or if indeed we will have an audience to play to???

Life Through a Lens

Life can be a funny ole thing. I mean you are born you live you die. Being born and dying are easy. Its living that seems to be hard, trying to find your place amongst billions of others. I seem to be going through another downer again, i expect it to last only a day though as i havent got the time at the mo to concentrate on being depressed. Promoting the play, rehearsing the play, working , eating, sleeping then running the play! Thats my life for the next few weeks. Thank god i am taking some time off work for it all. Then i have to worry about getting more extra work as i desperately need money for school, the restaurant that i was at havent had any hours for me for the last 3 weeks and its hitting me hard. Cant do much about it till after the play. I was pleased with last nights rehearsal as for the first time i felt like i wasnt bex saying lines pretending to be a character but rather i really got into the character became it almost. I loved it, i came of stage feeling lightheaded and flushed in the cheeks and the buzz was something else. I just hope that i can be good enough to earn a living at this when i complete the school. I am a worrier and am i am worrying a lot about whats gonna happen after school. I wanna stay in canada but this could prove nigh on impossible, do i go to london along with thousands of other hopefuls? Ugh i do have times when i feel i am not good enough and i still have a niggling doubt at the back of my mind as to why exactly i have been excepted to the school. But thats just me.
I have been told a few times that i am doing good moving away, my mum told me that its great as i have nothing here. I am sure she ment i have no ties to keep me and not that i wasnt wanted. But what of that as well. She is right i have no one and some times i wish that i did have someone that could make me happy, truly happy and not content like i seem to be most of the time! Like i say i shall get myself out of this funk this weekend and i shall be back to being the happy go lucky person people think i am!

First rule of fight club....

We dont talk about York shakespeare fight club! Of course i have never really been one to play by the rules so i will speak. Tonight is the first fight club session for the play, should be a lot of fun seeing as we are learning to stage fight correctly. We are doing a full on riot on stage including using improvised weapons so we obviously need to learn how to do it all safely.
Looking forward to it all and cant wait to get stuck in, its a laugh a minute with these guys be it pulling faces at each other while trying to concentrate on a scene to knocking back the pints in the minster inn after a hard days rehearsing on a sunday! Will post some pics later as am gonna take camera with me this eve.

piccie delight

Okay as promised here are some piccies from the humble boy a play i did with haxby players in york uk. I played rosie the love interest of the lead character it was a laugh to do and enjoyed it imensley. Well enjoy
bex

Not long to go

Well i figured it would be best if i made a post seeing as i havent done so in quite a while! To say i had decided not to do anymore acting this year was a bad idea. I cant seem to stay away from it at all. To start with i did a centeenary service for william h auden at bootham school. Its a hundered years since his birth. On the same night that i was doing that i got a call from Andy Love a director i did my first play with. It seems that they had someone drop out and asked if i would fill the shoes! I did um and ah for a bit before deciding that yeah... i should go for it. And so i got the part of rosie in 'Humble Boy' by charlotte jones. Of which i should have some pics up soon. In that same week i got a job waitressing as the assembly rooms in york. I lasted all of a month however as the wages were crap and it was rather stressful. I much prefer the waitressing job i have now at rustique in castlegate york. Much more laid back, we have a laugh and the money is excellent. I have now also been cast in the York Shakespeare Projects summer play henry 6th. its something that hasnt been done by an amature company before, as in we are doing all three parts, condensed down into two performances! I have approx 7 parts throughout the play ranging from a soldier and messenger to hume and the weaver. Lots to learn but lots of fun to be had. Especially as i am now the social organiser! We are gonna go paintballing so we can learn combat a bit better as some of us (read the guys) arent very good at pretending to be in combat situations where as the girls are top notch at it!

Yep lost it!!!!

I think i have gone mad but that thing i said i was gonna do? Well i have put myself on ebay to raise funding for school
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what have i done?


Go here http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250078720983

and maybe bid?

Hectic Life....or something like it

Hey there anybody. Well life has been pretty hectic these last few months! Firstly I won £1000 at work which i was pretty buzzed about to say the least. I saved £800 and the rest got me though x mas. I have also gotten a new laptop for canada which i probably shouldnt have bought but i did need one so there you go. I got £200 for x mas and also i have upped my school payments by $250 as the exchange rate is excellent at the mo, its about $2.32 to the £1 so i am gonna make it work in my favour. My short term aim is to raise £3000 by the end of march so that my isa matures. It will also mean that if i were to change that into CD$ in the current climate i would get about $7400!!! I only really need $12000 for the year so would be over half way there although i am cautious and so will continue to raise money. I have an apartment now for when i go to vancouver something i am very pleased about as i wanted this apartment as soon as i laid eyes on it last year. It $550 a month and will be sharing with 4 others.
The next month or two will see me doing car boot sales and selling my stuff to get a bit extra. Friends from work are also helping me in giving me stuff to sell that they would otherwise chuck out. Also selling some things on ebay. Have just had a wild idea about something that i may do as well, i will let you know later.
I have also just done 2 student films over x mas which i am dead chuffed about, hopefuly they will be up on you tube soon so every one can see it!!!!
Thats all for now

Bex

The way things are

Well i figured i may as well update peeps on what is happening even if its only the occasional friend of mine that stops by to see what i am up to lol. I am putting my first order for avon in tomorrow and i have an order of £380 which means i should get a commision of near £100!!! Not bad for minimal work, of course being near xmas probably helps but hey ho! So that means that i will have started on my money raising scheme at last!!!!! Oh that reminds me i need to wash a dress that i am selling to my boss at work so thats some more money and also someone wants my rat cage for £30. It all adds up. I hope to buy my plane ticket at xmas as i should be getting money instead of prezzies. No going back now. The payments for school are going out nicely at around £610 a month so thats running smoothly so far and i need to cancel my pension at the hospital. If i cancel it within 2 years of starting it i get my money back that i put in! That should total about a grand but will wait till jan prob to do that. It will also mean i will be £50 a month better off cause i wont be paying into that anymore. My mum suggest that i put all the money that i earn from work into the savings and live off my pub money that i get each week (about £40) so i prob will start doing that after xmas. As with anyone i am feeling the pinch of xmas and need to be realistic. Just to add as well that i have finally gotten my hair cut after the disasterous cut i got in august!!! Its taken me this long to grow out the short lengths that the last lass cut it before i could get it sorted! Well heres what it looks like, peace y'all!
bex