Crap, I forgot I even had a blog.

It's been like 8 months or something and I haven't posted squat. I have no reason for this and it would be trite for me to use this opportunity to state excuses why I've been negligent. All that I can say is that I'm back.

I am back.

Tonight I am finishing up my last performance in Michael Gilkes production of Verdmont House - The Untold Story.

VERDMONT - THE UNTOLD STORY

Saturday July 25th and Sunday July 26th, 2009

Recognising the need to produce inclusive programming, the Bermuda National Trust wishes to interpret this historic house through the eyes of its former occupants, shifting the focus from architectural to human heritage. We aim to tell inclusive stories through a series of dramatic performances. The 300 year history provides great scope to use the people of Verdmont to present the diversity of responses to the social, economic and political forces over time that have shaped our island while demonstrating how both black and white, enslaved and free, lived and worked together at this site. These dramatic performances promise to enlighten and challenge the audience while encouraging an appreciation of our diversity and the history that connects us. Verdmont was built c1710 and opened as a museum in 1957.

I've been playing two characters Alcindor Bacchus Junior and Hassan Bambara. Junior is the slave son of a slave who grows up to become a mariner. I have a romantic scene where I ask a slave girl to marry me. Hassan Bambara is a fictional African Sea Captain who is assisting in a plot for Bermudian slaveowners to secretly trade gunpowder with Americans during the War of Independence/Colonial War, for provisions. I only have one line, but its a powerful character and a powerful performance.

I'm having a lot more fun that I did when we first started rehearsing. I had to take sometime off of work, but I needed it. The job has been stressing me out. Tonight's the cast party, so that should deal with all the stress. Heh heh heh.