Free Condoms
This morning I got up at 5:30 am to distribute free condoms at a tube station. It was fun and we finished early. Then I went back to bed for another hour's kip before my audition at 11am.
They liked me and have asked me back for a re-call tomorrow. The play sounds like fun, it's Shakespeare and the pay is decent. £325 a week plus touring allowance of £12 a day.
Well, no-one does this job for the money but it is a fairer representation of today's financial requirements of living in a big city, than some of the dosh usually offered by small theatre companies.
A dilemma is raising its scary head already though- I received an email from a director regarding a play on the fringe, which would be unpaid but more prestigous than touring round secondary schools (again). An interesting part, too in an acclaimed modern classic drama. He asks if I can rehearse from the 19th of December and what my take on the role would be. She is the illegitimate daughter of her "boss", and in love with her brother who has syphilis, so an interesting part, for sure!
I could stay at home, get agents to see me in it and do mindless promotion jobs like the one today...
I also might be in with a chance of doing another low-budget feature film, along the lines of "Memento".
They actually sent me the script before, in June but re-advertised (I guess because of delays with the budget, or an interruption to their schedule caused by the writer's mental breakdown, who knows...) this month. And obviously still like the look of me despite having forgotten all about me from before. Well, so had I, I have to admit- I only realised the script was a duplicate when I discovered one with the same name in my "Scripts" folder which I saved in June! I read that many things, I only noticed on the 2nd page that it sounded somewhat familiar...
Did someone ever consider how tough it is to read a 120-page script on a laptop screen!?
These projects are difficult to fit in if you are on tour for months on end, and directors think you are unavailable and therefore unreliable. I might add that it would help if they could afford to pay their cast...
I never said I wasn't bitter and twisted, after all this is what spawned this blog!
They liked me and have asked me back for a re-call tomorrow. The play sounds like fun, it's Shakespeare and the pay is decent. £325 a week plus touring allowance of £12 a day.
Well, no-one does this job for the money but it is a fairer representation of today's financial requirements of living in a big city, than some of the dosh usually offered by small theatre companies.
A dilemma is raising its scary head already though- I received an email from a director regarding a play on the fringe, which would be unpaid but more prestigous than touring round secondary schools (again). An interesting part, too in an acclaimed modern classic drama. He asks if I can rehearse from the 19th of December and what my take on the role would be. She is the illegitimate daughter of her "boss", and in love with her brother who has syphilis, so an interesting part, for sure!
I could stay at home, get agents to see me in it and do mindless promotion jobs like the one today...
I also might be in with a chance of doing another low-budget feature film, along the lines of "Memento".
They actually sent me the script before, in June but re-advertised (I guess because of delays with the budget, or an interruption to their schedule caused by the writer's mental breakdown, who knows...) this month. And obviously still like the look of me despite having forgotten all about me from before. Well, so had I, I have to admit- I only realised the script was a duplicate when I discovered one with the same name in my "Scripts" folder which I saved in June! I read that many things, I only noticed on the 2nd page that it sounded somewhat familiar...
Did someone ever consider how tough it is to read a 120-page script on a laptop screen!?
These projects are difficult to fit in if you are on tour for months on end, and directors think you are unavailable and therefore unreliable. I might add that it would help if they could afford to pay their cast...
I never said I wasn't bitter and twisted, after all this is what spawned this blog!
posted by Anonymous Actress @ Friday, November 11, 2005
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