Notes From Earls Court

OK – so I haven’t been blogging for about three months and it has been on my mind terribly. It’s not that I have had no time to do this, it is more about time management and whilst Sean will be the first to tell you about how I tend to plan things, time for filing blog posts escapes me. My first thoughts on how to deal with this was to write shorter posts but often. The problem happened that this job was increasingly taken up by Facebook and then to a greater degree by Twitter. Where possible I try to tweet immediately after each show, in a style borrowed from Mark Shenton although unlike Mark I post mine from my trusty iPhone on the train. Ultimately, the last three months have been a bit of a whirlwind that have included the re-structuring of my day-job; The Stage New Year Party; The Inaugural Off West End Awards and plans for a trip to NYC in April and in May a trip with Sean to Greece. I have been trying to focus my attention on the various options available to me as a blogger, reviewer and judge for the Offies. As my blog was always a rather personal affair it sometimes included candid information on my private life much of which will be of scant interest to theatre people. There again, there are friends of mine who find my life in London eclectic to say the least, with theatre being very much a part of who I am and what I do. In essence I cannot work out whether to start over with a new blog based solely on theatre and leave the weight-loss, mood-swings and bakery to Facebook & Twitter OR, and that’s a big OR, continue to combine the two. My life in London for the past 15 years could and possibly would not have existed without theatre. It is very much a part of who I am and how I live my life so how do I separate the personal from the professional and indeed, should I? Ensconced in the particularly nice Wine Café of the Finborough Theatre it is certainly seems a less demanding dilemma. Over the next week I am travelling to New York to visit my dear friends over there and join in with the inaugural New York Make-up Artists Trade Show. I shall take my lap to with me and begin to think around my dilemma.