The first live Production of "Desperately Seeking Samuel" took place before a small but enthusiastic audience in early July in Ontario cottage country. A second production for a larger audience has been requested for the Dickinson Island Summer Theatre. This is a private theatre set up for local cottagers in the Parry Sound area. The playwright says he was pleasantly surprised by the response as he had been concerned people on vacation (and some local residents) might find it depressing. However, they quickly became engaged by the character's unfolding memory of his life. One audience member said that it was, for her, an allegory about a descent into darkness and a gradual awakening into self-awareness and self-esteem. The play runs a little over one hour, which is shorter than the film version at one hour and eighteen minutes. Paul says the stage version required some minor changes to the script. Paul has booked the Granville Ferry Community Hall in his home province of
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.