Comedy this month at the comedy cafe as an ACT and as MC.
A corporate show for an International group engineers in a restaurant by a park in the Hague.
Travelled twice to Hengelo: once for a showing of ‘Why Love Shakespeare?’ at SG Twickel for 100 students. and later in the week to MC a comedy gig at the poptemple foyer.
Great VO gig this month doing the promo reel for the Amsterdam Dance Event. Name a top DJ and they’ll be there schmoozing and learning. That’s a conference worth attending!
The Binger Institute became part of my working fabric in June. First got asked back to do their role plays with the latest class of students (all working film professionals). Love doing that work, getting to the nitty gritty of how to handle your worst nightmare, or re-doing something you thought could go better!
Then Mark Travis returned to do his Directing Actors workshop. His MO is very basically to help the director to communicate not with the actors but with their characters.
For me this shorthand method works. Gets me the actor focused and away from the thoughts of me the actor. Mark gives great workshop and did an extra one on the monday for some Dutch actors and directors! I hope he finishes a book about his work soon.
Plus the fact that the scripts I had to work from were excellent both:
The Insect King and Fetch. In one I played a neglectful dad of a teenage son and in the other a transvestite Irish nurse being fetched by a brother she never knew she had on dying daddy’s wishes.
That got filmed at the AMC hospital with Hans Kemna playing dying dad and Mischa Hulshof playing my brother. Me, I had to learn to walk in 6 inch heels. Damn, girlfriend! Great for the posture though. Check the face:
F**k it, has kept people together longer than love...
DIfferent shoot in Hilversum for a UEFA 2012 police training film. I got my own talk show had a gorgeous singer as previous guest and then interviewed an expert on football hooliganism. A fun shoot to work on green screen and auto cue.
Plus my guest was played by Russel Hekster, who last year I went to Nice to do a duo with me impersonating Eddy the multi millionaire for the last day of his 3 day 3 different locations 50th birthday bash. Wende Sneijders played that party too.
Also did some dialect coaching for a new film by Paul Ruven. Robert de Hoog proved himself to be a quick study and fine young actor. Hannah Verboom, also fine, didn’t really need much help with her english.
The Game Company phoenix like has risen up again so I got a chance to play one of my favourite characters, Sjimmie de Sjoemelaar for a bunch of doctors of medicine.
School finished and the majority of my students passed their sonnet test. Next year jan feb march I’ll be back teaching first and second years again.
The Facebook page of the ‘I Love Shakespeare’ Blog group is finally full with 154 members. I’m really enjoying linking up the latest Shakespeare news. Now it’s decision time on where to go from here.
The CCG Comedy Cover Group carries on apace and this month we performed at the Nieuwe Anita and Het Perron for the Schrijvers Tafel.
now check these heels!
Love the extra height.
