“How the hell have we not met before?”
After Al Wright texted Will this evening, having seen the social media and realised his old friend was in the show he made up with Tom Bellerby just after Jack and I had done As You Like It with him up at Sprite…
Work breeds work. I can track it being me in Christmas Carol back to a tiny production of Private Lives in Norfolk over twenty years ago. Will is twelve years younger than me. So we are both Chinese year of the tiger. We are also both spongebrains, to the extent that I checked with him about the eidetic thing I’ve started to learn about myself. We both see the wordshape and associate based on that. The name Brad lives in the same place as the name Carl. Keira and Freya can be easily mistaken. Shapes of words can easily outmemory specifics. We both lift lines up. We both collect esoteric knowledge. The joy is that we have gone down different rabbit holes with these weird collecting brains and there is so much wonderful random stuff to be found. We are enjoying surprising one another with the crap we’ve picked up. I’m having to be careful though in these early days during the show, as we can both talk endless waffle when people aren’t paying for it, or when they are. We enjoy it. Audiences might not. I literally had to say “NO” to him in the show tonight when I was telling everyone how the Slovakians say “Merry Christmas,” and even if I knew I could go all night repeating it I wasn’t sure if the paying audience had the patience. He pimped me 3 times running. The fourth time I had to refuse.
But I fucking love him, this fire tiger burning next to my wood tiger, my jaguar. I can bring him to a clearing where he won’t hurt the trees. There we will bring the light and the darkness together and it’ll be fucking spectacular. Because we are both motivated by the quest for joy. I love how much sense it made when we were both tigers. My Chinese “wood tiger” horoscope has always made sense to me, since I discovered it after my first medicine experience drew me to “jaguar”. Yeah woo woo etc. But things like that can be helpful if not relied on. Here we both are, and Brad who is SM and just 21.
AlBarclay 