An Evening at the Fear Institute

Last night was my first acting experience in, oh so long, so long in fact that I can barely remember my last one - iirc it was as "War General Death Chicken" at Lepracon in the early 2000's and that was just to run on stage, cluck a bit and run off (ah acting, it builds character you know) and before that it was probably in school.
Talking of school that was the last time I attempted to write a play, at age 12. I wrote a play (at a catholic school) where the main character was a chain-smoking kleptomaniac priest and the cast were stuck on board a ski lift gondola. Bless my teacher at the time, Miss Dempsey, the only one of my English teachers to encourage me to write. She put it on in front of the whole school during a performance week (other classes put on Shakespeare & other 'proper' playwright's plays). I don't remember my play going down very well...




(The Erishkagel Working)



(A Long Spoon)
Last night's performance was very different. We performed four plays adapted from Jonathan L Howard's Johannes Cabal stories. And it seemed to go very well.



Many thanks to  Chris Cutting  for directing us





 (Chris Cutting -  iPhone struggling with low light there)
Paul Donovan for doing the fantastic sound effects and for sitting in a cupboard throughout the performance
And my fellow writers and actors:
Death of Me - adapted for radio by  AA Abbott  &  LE Turner Exeunt Demon King - adapted for radio by  Rosie Sharratt , Thomas David Parker &  Pete Sutton The Erishkagel Working - adapted for radio by Pete Sutton & Thomas David ParkerA Long Spoon - adapted for radio by Chris Cutting
Johannes Cabal -  Ken Shinn Jones the Hatter, Mr Curry, Pensey - Thomas David ParkerMyghin - AA AbbottParkin, Luan Da - Pete SuttonConstable Copeland, Zarenyia - Ellen WaddellAssorted Sprites, Zombies & Others - LE TurnerMaleficarus, Rufus Maleficarus - Chris Cutting



(Where's the audience?)


 (Death of Me in full flow)
Johannes Cabal is a great character and the stories are very funny. You should go check out Jonathan's books!