Day 209: Yearning #9 - Big Wheels Are Turning

I can both be grateful and yearn for the same thing, I have discovered. I've just come back from watching the conclusion of the 50-hour improvathon. I'm blown away. I've seen performances that made me want to kneel down and worship a good few people. 24 players did the full 50 hours. There were some fucking AWESOME performances. 


Of course I yearn to be part of that. I really do. I'd like to get all juicily involved and be on that stage. Susan Harrison was such a delight to watch. Mark Meer (who had a bit of a following at the end of last year, I think, and has a fresh groupie batch this year thanks to his massively consistent, funny and brilliant villain). There are too many people to mention and in the case of a whole bunch of them, I never even found out their names. The final scene between Seamus and Dylan will stay with me for ever, and two scenes made me weep like a drunken bag lady. And at all the same time as this healthy yearning tickles the pit of my stomach, I find that I am delighted by the benefits of not just having done 50 hours of improv. I do not have jetlag, as those players will. I would gratefully suck it up if I did, but I don't, so I'll suck that up instead, more easily. Fewer lumps. 
AND - there's nothing to stop us doing another one. We can ALWAYS do another one. 40 hours this time. 


And oh, the people I've seen over the last few days. As always, it was a pleasure to see Simon on Friday, and Rob strutting his funky jazzfinger stuff on keyboards for the show. A bunch of fine Germans, with whom I ate Vietnamese noodles after the show. And Ed Bennett. It's been MUCH too long since I saw him. And the very lovely and horribly talented Jack Darrell, sitting in the audience. Such a shame he wasn't in the show, but very nice to see him. Watch that name. Get to know that face. You'll see them both on billboards. Some people, you can just tell. 

And finally (because the minutes are almost at the point where if tomorrow is to be of any use at all to me - and it really needs to be - I can't afford many more of them awake), I yearn for this. Thanks, Viv Goodings. For many of your posts. Today for this.