My New Life in Malta

Thank you everyone for the comments and encouragement. I definitely wrote that last posting in a moment of frustration so it might have gone a bit over the top, but I had to get it off my chest. (And yes Sabine, I am human an do get angry… ha ha! Perhaps I will make the blog more colourful by focusing on some of the negatives of Maltese life).

It is not so much that I care what people think, as I do not let my life be dictated by that. It is just that getting the same reaction over and over again gets really old really fast. If I ask “sejra?” instead of “yes, I am leaving” I get “did you hear? He said sejra!”… sigh. I have discovered that I really have little patience for repetitive social interactions.

On a more cheerful note, opening night is only two days away! Gasp! Last night we were rehearsing until after midnight. There are still a million things that need work, but that is the nature of theatre and I know that it will all come together when the curtain goes up on a room full of people. The director asked me to be in charge of all the background actors and make sure that they come in and out at the correct times. So I made a nice little chart with everyone’s entries and exits, but then yesterday he kept changing everything! Now I even get to be on stage for a few seconds all by myself. On the stage of the Manoel Theatre. In front of a few hundred people. I am getting a bit nervous just thinking about it.

During all the waiting times, I get the chance to wander the backstage area. The dressing rooms still have some signs up from the panto of last month, as well as other leftovers from other performances. The funniest thing I found is an official looking list of all the fire extinguishers in the theatre, with all of them due for inspection in September 2002. Someone has handwritten on it “isn’t it now November 2002?”  Well, it is now January 2007, so let us hope that a fire does not break out this week.

I hope some of you can make it to the play tomorrow or over the weekend!