Play and ideas... IDEAS

22 Aug 2009 11:08 AM

I will get back to my Things soon, I have been busy with the play I am in!

It is called 'The Trackers Of Oxyrhynchus' and you can find information about it on the Omniprop Website. I like it a lot, and not just because I get to run around with an enormous fake penis.

It's funny and weird and silly and sad. Also, penis. We have four more performances and I do suggest that you come along if you're in the area!

So after each show (except, not last night. I had to take my young man home and... allow him to sleep before work this morning) I have been telling a story to whichever cast members haven't gone home yet. I call them stories because to call it a joke would imply that it was actually... you know, funny. Which, you know, they are but mostly to me. And to other people who appreciate that kind of thing, of course.

I was once again struck with the realisation that telling these stories is something that I'm actually very good at. And something I really really really enjoy. I think I am pretty okay at a lot of things. I can act okay. I can act well enough that I pull off singing and dancing kind of okay. I can draw my little pictures and so on. I guess I know lots of other people that are better at at least some of those other things than me. Some people who are better than all of those things than me. Which is fine! I am pretty happy with being okay-to-good at those things. So! As people who were heading home the night before last expressed actual, genuine, disappointment that they would not be able to stay and listen to my story I started getting an idea.

My twitter post was greeted by enthusiasm by one person and so the idea has been growing stronger and more terrifying by the minute.

I am thinking that I could record some of my stories and put them on the internet. I am intimidated by how un-complicated and un-scary that sounds.

Last night, as I said, I went home soon after the show ended. I promised them two stories after tonights show, to make up for it. I think I could really do this. I have a 10 episode arc kind of bouncing around in my brain right now... And maybe it might be entertaining to more than just me. Many of my favourite people have heard most or all of my stories already, but it will certainly be less in-jokey/obscure/not actually funny than the comic so maybe other people, people I don't actually already know, might listen to it. Somehow. Maybe oh I don't know I am trying not to get discouraged before I even start. It's exciting to plan things out and stuff and aaaaah.

I am not scared of not finishing this, of not succeeding. I am too busy being scared about not starting. I don't even know what things I need to know before I try.

I guess the first thing my podcast needs is a name. I am thinking "The Adventures of Chifley".

Oh wait, that's taken.