Paul Rapsey’s third and most recent film, “ Desperately Seeking Samuel ”, has just been jury selected for the Fall 2022 LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival in the USA. Like his other films, it is a monologue produced with no budget and using the most basic equipment. The film runs 80 minutes. Paul knows that the subject of the film is not everyone’s “cup o’ tea”. In fact, someone wrote that he found it “dark, depressing and claustrophobic” and so did not watch it in its entirety. The play takes place in a confined space, a closet. It is the story of an elderly man who has lost his memory and, in his entrapment, slowly puts the pieces of his life together. Most people who have viewed the film to date have given very positive feedback, with one viewer stating that Paul is “ an amazing story teller!” He wrote: “I feel it! …confined in the uncertainty of entrapment.….suspended in a fog of confusion…dangling in a web of memory….twisting in the stillness of scattered pieces….c
This blog is for the purpose of reporting on past and future shows I have or will be performing in. Since 2019, these plays are monologues that I have written. Theatre on a shoe-string budget requires all the help it can get from social media. I trained as an actor and performed professionally in the 1970s before becoming a lawyer in the 1980s. In the 1990s and early 2000s, I performed occasionally , taking up theatre (monologues) again after my retirement from the practice of law in 2015.