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...

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