37 stories from Girl in the Dark
It is with great regret that I have decided to leave my little boat. In the early hours of New Years Day, I stood at a bus stop in Hackney and counted down the minutes until I could remove m…
Why did you get into theatre?This is a question I have been asked many times and, if you work in theatre, you have probably been asked it too. By people interviewing you for a job perhaps. O…
I have done many daft things when I have been inebriated; agreed to run marathons, forgotten I've left my mobile in the ladies toilets of a pub, fallen asleep on the night bus and ended up i…
Like a lot of people, I'm not really a fan of the Taliban.They do rather nasty things, don't they? Like banning chess and kite flying and other fun things. And randomly slitting people'…
Working in theatre is fun. Apparently.I got into this industry under the impression that I would never need to rise from my bed before midday and could skip into a theatre, do some cues for …
'One Day' has come out at the cinemas and unlike the vast majority of my friends I won't be going to see it. Definitely not.This is nothing to do with how I feel about the book. I read…
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. And sometimes bad things happen to people like me; predominantly good but fairly bitchy and often forgets birthdays.Okay, so I don't always stand …
A friend of mine, Lily, teaches stage management in a Drama School and is introducing a 'Mentor' scheme. The general idea is that a professional stage manager, the 'Mentor', is i…
My play has finished. It's all over. The cast and I have said our drunken and tearful goodbyes, the dressing rooms have been cleared of discarded Press Night cards and my Sliding Doors have …
The theatre I am working at has asked me to stay on for the next show.This hopefully means that they like me. And I think it also means that I have been forgiven for an unfortunate incident …
I had a date.I like going on dates for various reasons. Firstly because I am a normal girl in my late twenties with wants and needs. And secondly because I work in theatre and we rarely say …
The situation with the pub has got worse. (If you don't know what I'm talking about you need to read a previous post called Upstairs, Downstairs. My blog isn't like 'Lost', you k…
