The much awaited pantomime from the Drama Society took place tonight and I was present for the second performance. I'll get a few things off my chest first, it was bloody boiling inside Area and they could do a few things about the speakers as we had to put up with earth hum coming from one of them for the first few minutes of the play. Not helped by the lack of microphones on stage. Despite that everyone gave a great performance, standout points for me included Martin playing Milly one of the ugly sisters, Seb really showing his acting as the fairy Godfather and Kit playing the Prince, a rather camp character with a lisp.
Audience participation knew no boundaries as Dan P playing Buttons managed to get ex student/barman Jim Chapman on stage to perform "I Will Survive" although Jim was didn't bother to sing a note! Also in attendance were Sarah the VP of Activities at the student union as well as Rob Watson the former coms officer who had to put up with the many digs about the downsides to uni life including the catering and the fire alarms in halls!
They even had a house band lead by Eleri on piano and she looked really gorgeous as always.
I'm slightly embarrassed however walking back with my t-shirt smelling of tomato as a result of Chris sat next to me who was encouraged to throw them at housemate Pippa on stage who played one of the princes jesters. God knows how they'll cope performing in Central.
I'm suffering once again from writer's block as I've been asked to help Clara with her "10 Health Hazards Of Christmas" for our magazine show. We've got to write some witty introductions to introduce short interviews about depression, drinking etc in the style of "The Night Before Christmas". Actually that reminds me of a rather dirty version of the poem that someone showed me whilst at secondary school. I guess you need to be truthful about the seasonal side effects.
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