After Life

Now, that has caught your attention! And for many things nowadays, this is important – the actual truth, less so. Consider this story – very early in my career, over 25 years ago, i was appearing with a travelling opera company in the UK in Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate – it was a budget production and I had two roles – Kate’s father in Act 1 and Kate’s rich lover, Harrison Howell, (more…)

The School of Correction to which we sent the conveyor belt has really done an excellent job, and I would recommend it for any other wayward children – it still offers surprises, but during our final rehearsals on stage, it conquered its former excesses of speed and furniture, and our General Rehearsal on Saturday night went without a hitch. (more…)

The Computer Dress rehearsal is out of the way and one is reminded of some very basic stage rules for performers – if possible, try to avoid working with children or animals on stage: this of course is due to the unpredictability of the aforementioned categories. (more…)

Bundled into a taxi at the stage door of DNO, as if being taken to an under-cover location, Mr Walter finds himself 15 minutes later in the West of Amsterdam in a light industry quarter being dropped off just outside a car-wash – could this be the HQ of the ASKO/Schoenberg ensemble? (more…)

Not content with being 71 and dead, poor Mr Walter got out of bed yesterday and stood on several screws from his Ikea luxury item, now littered around the floor – yes, the life of an After Lifer is not plain sailing – fortunately when he was alive Mr Walter was a dab hand at flat-packs, so all is now restored, albeit in different holes, so his bed has a 10 per cent list. (more…)