"We have been rehearsing for 'Dead Thursday, Dancing Friday' ever since September. It's amazing to see the whole play coming to life thanks to all the youth theatre members!
First part of the rehearsal our fantastic director Rachel Crane hands out the sweets and there's a mad scrabble for our favourites (jelly babies - no question).
She comes over to talk to me - oh dear. "Paula..." she says and immediately I know there is a problem. "Paula I need to talk to you about this one bit... its fab but it's just not going to work in this space." That's me for you - full of delusions of grandeur! "Perhaps if we do it this way..."
Next we start acting. We've got to the part where Robert, the actor playing Rhodri in the play, is required to stash a rolling pin for later use. "Now the only problem is where to put it..." muses Rachael and immediately Karen our assistant bursts out laughing. She has come up with the ingenious idea that Robert stores it down his trousers - much to the horror of the characters of the guests.
"I think we should up the age limit." grumbles Robert as the rest of us are in fits of laughter.
The rest of the rehearsal goes without a hitch, apart from a few more hilarious jokes suggested by the cast that were written in by the cast that we cant stop laughing at! I know I'm not the only one who can't wait for the next rehearsal!
When Harry (the director of the youth theatre) asked me if I would consider writing a play I jumped at the chance immediately. That week ideas were bouncing off my head like... well like ideas bouncing off somebody's head!
But I kept returning to the idea of servants in an old house getting revenge on an evil old Lady. Over the week the plot, characters, and even some of the jokes formed in my head so by the time I next saw Harry I was ready to go.
Unfortunately me being me, the play was still being written until the week before the perormance when it was finally, officially, finished! If you happened to see it I hope you found the play all the better for it "
