'It's all, all over.' Another bucket of Corvo Bianco, please. I've just come to the end of a run of Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Progress Theatre in Reading . I performed as Robert, and the play itself received overwhelmingly positive reviews. Needless to say, I was absolutely bloody fantastic - as were my costars, Emma Sterry and Pete Cook, and Mathieu Menard in his cameo as a waiter. In fact, the whole ensemble - director Adrian, SM Tara, Steph, Helen in Wardrobe, and our light and sound guys, Rich and Jon - were brilliant. Pete Cook as Jerry Emma Sterry as Emma. Well, that's my award acceptance speech more or less there. Now, intermittent readers of this intermittent blog, I can hear your eyebrows creaking upward ever so slightly, as I don't think I mention theatre and acting much here (or previously over on Joy Of Raki ). The truth is, I've been away - not just from this blog, but also from performance. Well, 28 years, to be...
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