I enjoy the whole process of the Halloween Walk. Getting together with friends on days like this. Now I’m better at not drinking I can enjoy being on the heath and in the pubs without either overspending on those pretty gakky tasting non alcoholic alternatives to beer, or feeling strangely anxious.
We met at The Freemasons Arms on Downshire Road. That’s where we’ll start this year. Siwan has nailed the route down and it’s a figure of eight taking in some lovely places we don’t normally get to. It’s a good walk of an evening even without the spooky actors. It’s so good that now there’s some rip off merchant using our name and paying for internet presence to get hits above us. I’ve had the misfortune to get stuck behind them last year, they were going the same way as us, their group stood there looking bored and occasionally glancing up the hill to our group where people were enjoying themselves. You can know everything in the world but if you can only project your voice in a throat constricted monotone you’ll lose people.
Siwan brought me a bag of non alcoholic Heineken. She lives near Emirates stadium so she has been known to flog cool beer out of her front door on Arsenal match days. We’re an enterprising lot. She realised the non alcoholic stuff doesn’t sell in anything like the quantity she thought it would. Very kindly she donated some of the overspill to the Al Barclay sugar craving society.
We walked around for 2 hours. It was a good two hours. We covered a lot of ground and I certainly have a better idea about what to build now. Although I’ll have to get a replacement for some of it as the lovely Meisner lot are going to bring that piece back in October and I want to be available for them if at all possible.
It’s always good to have to juggle things even if they’re things we made for ourselves to keep ticking over. I’ve been asked “So what’s next?” so many times in the last few weeks. They should train people at birth not to do that to actors. “If it was good, you’d probably already know about it.”
Although I’ve got a Factory show on Thursday. That’ll be a delight as ever. Second crack at Caius Lucius so now I will be less in survival mode and more in forward motion.
