Angst of an Amateur Actor

Dramatic

Although I like writing dramatic scenes, I don’t think i’m cut out for the stage.

I helped make a film back in 2009 for BASIC in Salford, but throughout the filming was more at home behind the camera than in front of it…

its all the remembering of lines, rehearsals, delivering performance and trying your best to cut out the ad-libbing

And as cover behind the scenes – there’s always something (or someone) to fudge your lines….Not easy to deal with a memory like a tea-strainer, and dealing with the resident drama queens.

My clearest memory of my patchy acting career ? Starring in a bit part of the School Pantomime – “Aladdin” – i’d been switched from one line to two – as I went from one Imperial guard to another…the biggest stresser – delivering the punchline at the end.

(co incidentally ….the film I helped make has won awards, and has been modified to suit the needs of the centre website)