We can has funding nao!

[desperance]

We haven't been friends for a while, but the Arts Council and I are back on terms; they're funding the November tour of my play "A Cold Coming", to theatres in this region.

Which means that we can afford to pay the actors, hurrah! And apparently the director too, tho' why that should be necessary is entirely beyond me... (But yes, he is the man who wrote the application; he seemed to think it was important.)

And for myself, I shall get a wee percentage of the door-money (come! see! come again!!) but far more significantly (no, honestly, I mean that) for two weeks I shall be employed, on the pay-roll, in the cast-list, on Equity minimum, no less! After thirty years a professional writer, suddenly I'm a professional actor, dahlings...

And I still don't have a line. Nor could I honestly call myself a walk-on, as there is no walking involved. A lie-in? A lie-in-state? Ah, the difficulties of nomenclature!

I'll post a schedule when I have it. We may get to Leeds, that's still under negotiation; otherwise it's the Tyne and the Tees, more or less.


ETA: I should just like to point out, Equity Minimum is a lot more than Author's Minimum. I look at these numbers, and blink gently. I shoulda bin a Actor...

Comments

[julesjones]

Excellent!

Leeds I can almost certainly do, given trains from Manchester at the appropriate time to be able to return home afterwards. Tyne/Tees may be a little trickier.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I keep forgetting: not that you're in this country, exactly, more that your being in this country does actually allow of your turning up to events etc. Spooky. In a good way. (I've only met a couple of my LJ-friends in the flesh, so far; still adjusting to the notion that that can actually happen, that it's allowed...)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Trains home from Leeds would be no problem at all; it's a short play. Seventy-five minutes, in and out. 'Course then there's the drinking afterwards, but I too will prob'ly have to run for a train at some point.

[wishus.livejournal.com]

Woot! Good news!

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Nor could I honestly call myself a walk-on, as there is no walking involved. A lie-in? A lie-in-state?

I think that makes you a li-on.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. *is a big cat*

Now see me try to persuade the boys of this...

[pennski.livejournal.com]

A big cat who's being paid! Hurrah! You should write yourself more parts. What about a play where the author is on-stage, on a chaise longue, reading and drinking wine through-out?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

D'you think I could bring it off? Do I have the skills, the conviction? I might need to practice, even outside rehearsal...

Actually, one of our theatres (snigger - listen to me! "one of our theatres," forsooth...) is holding a slot for us next year for a new play - but m'director keeps glowering at me and stressing the expense of actors, the need to keep the cast list down. The play I have in mind is all set in a bar, and there's an obvious need for non-speaking drinking parts, but I don't think he'll let me...

[triciasullivan.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's great. Congratulations!

[handworn.livejournal.com]

A lying-in? And giving birth to what, one wonders.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Splendid news.

[xnamkrad.livejournal.com]

cool - congratulations

[cinderberry.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Are you a member of Equity now as well?

Is the play coming to Durham? Heaven knows the Gala theatre needs something interesting on.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Tragically not. No more closed shops, no more Equity-card Catch 22s (I'm sorry, that should obviously be Catches 22).

Not coming to Durham as far as I know. You'll have to come to South Shields. Or Stockton, or other sillier places, but South Shields is best. (Actually, go to North Shields and take the ferry over: water! Romance! Big ships! etc)

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov!

Break a leg cashing those equity minimum checks!