I get back home (after completing a day's work up in Mayfair) at about 7pm, which indicates already that I'm gonna be late for my friend Clare's performance in Chess at Camberley theatre, since the show starts at 19:45 and I still have to change, eat and then drive and find the place.
Arrive at the theatre at 19:55 (which ain't too bad considering...) and eventually find where the rest of the guys from work are sitting.
The show lasts just about two and a half hours in total, though this does include an interval. Overall I'm pretty impressed by the performances. For an amateur production, it's fairly professional.
Highlights:
Clare's faultless performance (no favouritism, she really is just damn good at this kind of thing)
Richard (the guy that the played Russian lead) - Excellent voice and a great actor
Lowlights:-
Sound guy fucked up on one of Clare's speaking bits.
Other lead males couldn't sing for toffee.
Meet up with Clare in the bar after (she really is a total starlet and I tell her as such), I also speak to her friend and fellow cast member Ben (who I have met once before and who also put in a good performance) and Richard (mentioned above) who actually does IT as a "proper job". This fact seems to confuse the Hell out of some old Thespian who keeps saying "you should go into acting - there's no reason not to with your talent". Richard was like; "but i like IT..."
