THE ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE
Photos by Jim
Return
George: "But what do you mean, 'Go on for him'?"
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THE ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE
Photos by Jim Return |
George: "But what do you mean, 'Go on for him'?" |
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Meg: "George, stop that. Go into the dressing room to change." |
George Spelvin (Bruce Jones) Meg (Linda Watkins) Sarah Siddons (Ruth Borovicka) Dame Ellen Terry (Hayley Van Meter) Henry Irving (Joe Balding) |
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| Sarah as Amanda: "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is." | Meg comes on stage and whispers his line to George. |
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| George as Elyot delivers the line and is starting to enjoy himself. | But he soon needs more help from the "maid." |
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| Dame Ellen enters as Sibyl, Elyot's bride. | Sibyl demands that Elyot choose between them. He wonders where the maid has gone, and both women scold him. |
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| Henry enters as Horatio and tells of the sighting of the ghost of Hamlet's deceased father. | Sarah returns dressed as Queen Gertrude: "O Hamlet, speak no more." |
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| George is left alone and attempts to entertain the audience with everything he has ever memorized, including the Pledge of Allegiance . . . | . . . the Act of Contrition, and the Alphabet Song. |
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| Dame Ellen reenters with garbage cans and plays a Beckett character. She addresses George as "Willy." | With Sarah's reentry as Lady Alice and Meg as Lady Margaret, the play shifts to A Man for All Seasons. George now is Sir Thomas More. |
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| Henry now plays the Executioner: "Sir Thomas More, you have been found guilty of the charge of High Treason." | George resists, but eventually speaks his final lines, "Friend, be not afraid of your office. . . . You send me to God." |
