Life doesn’t stop when you go into production week. It just
seems to. You still have your monthly debits going out, junk mail arriving and
so on at home – you’re just not there to see it. Or deal with it. If you’re me,
you’re lucky enough to have a lovely if overworked partner handling all that.
If not, I suppose it just piles up until you can’t open the front door.
This is doubly true in production week on tour, and triply
(if that’s a word) on tour in the Irish Republic. The keenest loss is the
freedom to contact home at will, which is something we iPhoneys are all used to
in the UK, but it’s a habit you have to break if you want to stay even
remotely solvent.
Anyway, update. The Everyman Palace is our first stop - in
the gorgeous city of Cork. It’s a bit dilapidated backstage – but the staircase
is papered with show posters going back decades, and they’re fantastic reading.
Local heroes featured here include the legend Frank Kelly (Father Jack in
“Father Ted”) and Anna Manahan, the Grande
Dame of the theatre, for whom the part of Mag in “Beauty Queen of Leenane”
was written. There’s a velvet chair in
the ladies’ dressing room with a tiny brass dedication plaque to her on it.
There’s also this:
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I was here with Jamie in “Abigail’s Party” in 2008, and Sean
from the stage crew immediately recognises us and says how much he loved that
show. There’s a framed poster in the corridor to the dressing rooms, too, and
these combine to cause a small degree of pressure. I imagine Michael feels it,
too. However, there’s no time for that as we’re called to stage and begin our
first run under the horseheads since November.
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