A ten-year-old boy and a dominatrix
October 11, 2011
Sat on the 345 on the way home after a day of treading the boards (too luvvy?) and listening to Alanis Morisette on my iPod (too trashy?), it strikes me how different a life we actors lead compared to 'normal' people.
Whatever 'normal' even means nowadays! For example, I have spent my day being a 10 year old boy in the morning and in the afternoon, a dominatrix. Not quite your average Thursday morning board meeting that's for sure!
You might wonder why I was a playing a 10 year old boy, and no for once it was not for dramatic licence.
The part of Prince Charles in Written on the Heart is to be played by three brilliant young boys (Hal, Christopher and Charlie) but whose entrance exams were keeping them from the rehearsal room. So yours truly took one for the team, strapped down my bosom and shoved a proverbial sock down my trousers.
Just kidding, but I was doing my best prepubescent boy acting. It was practically Home Alone 2!
As for the dominatrix, Measure for Measure is being set in the dark and glamorous world of sadomasochism. The play is full of power struggles and moral turmoil, so this controversial concept pushes the boundaries of every issue within the play and brings them to the juicy forefront! (Maybe not one for my Gran though!)
We managed to run the first half of Written on the Heart in the morning and the second half of Measure for Measure in the afternoon. Two halves of two very different plays... It still doesn't make a whole... But it won't be long now...
Laura x
by Laura Darrall
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