This section is going to be a large blog, with a lot of stopping and starting, covering the end of a Woman of No Importance all the way up to Panto due to forgetfulness and iffy computers.
Regarding A Woman of No Importance (and Mat giving alcohol to the cast prior to the curtain call) I was incrediably annoyed at him, even if the cast that had it had finished their time onstage and even though it was Tamsin’s birthday he should have waited until they were no longer needed onstage at all. If anything surely it was unfair to the few cast members who still had to go onstage and therefore couldn’t drink.
Though this wasn’t the first time I was annoyed with Mat. During the show where I was on the book he kept reminding me to do stuff, which I already knew to do. What was worse is that he obviously meant well but it felt like the way he said it was as though to someone who had never even seen a DSM work. Then the day after that he was miaowing on cans, surely increadiably annoying for Jane considering you could sometimes barely hear onstage if the relay went.
There was also the Pitlochry trip. Kieron and I thought that we really needed those parasols, it wasn’t until after we’d got them that we discovered Cesca had only considered having parasols and hadn’t decided on them yet. We wasted an entire day to get them when they weren’t needed, weren’t used and I just used up petrol (now knowing that I’d never get paid back for it even if I had receipts because it would need to come from the petty cash and considering we had none left I couldn’t get paid back for £45) and got extremely exhausted from the driving, considering it takes more concentration that being a passenger.
Considering how that experience on Woman of No Importance was rather bad, panto was a welcome refresher, Hannah was a much better stage manager than Mat. She had her flaws, but no one would be a perfect stage manager. At this stage I’m going to start a new section of the blog for panto.
