Where You Are

Throughout my life, I have been in and out of community theatre. I've played Cinderella's step-sister, a saloon owner in an improv murder mystery, village people, a male puppet mayor, a reporter, a candy shop owner, a nun, and even Jesus in an all-female readers' theatre (along with being the crowing rooster). My favourite role was when I played the White Witch in Beyond the Lamppost - a play written from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. That was the most fun I've ever had! I've also directed plays and written little plays. At one point, I got my family involved, and we became a theatre family. Sure, other families were hockey or soccer families, but we liked doing theatre together.

So when I moved to a new city a month ago, after years of not being involved in theatre (except for that readers' play, which is just reading), I decided to try out for a part.

And I got a part. "Where You Are" is a Canadian play with only four characters. I call this an actor's play. No singing and dancing. No cast of thousands. No elaborate sets or costumes. Just a small group of people having conversations.

Women's parts in plays are hard to come by - especially for overweight older women. So I feel really blessed to get this one. I am so looking forward to this! Yes, it will be lots of lines to memorize. But it's so fabulous to be back on the stage again. Now if I could just remember the name of the play! It's one of those sentences that can work several different ways. Where you are. Are you where? Where are you? You are where? See what I mean? Oh wait! I figured it out. Michael Jackson sings, "I Wanna Be Where You Are". So I just have to remember that!

Which has nothing to do with the play. But here you go anyway! https://youtu.be/tu_TUrTsyPk?si=mRUuMCmNvu8eC48S