Paul Rapsey performed his one actor show, One's Company, at the Community Hall in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia last night and the audience loved it! One audience member wrote: "Stellar performance. Beautifully written. Beautifully performed." The show sold out in less than a week. Had there not been occupancy restrictions in place due to Covid-19, the sell out show could have accommodated many more people who had been unable to purchase tickets. The show raised over $400 for the Hall after expenses, which Rapsey kept to a bare minimum. A movie version of the play will be released publicly in the near future. Rapsey says the film and stage plays are quite different, although both use the same script. "A live audience ignites an actor and both play off one another," says Rapsey. "It is both exhilarating and terrifying to stand on stage alone for over one hour." He was humbled by the response. Rapsey is not sure what his next undertaking will be. He s
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.