One Actor - Another Show

The Little Wooden House is a simple, tender but poignant story. Two fine performers, actor and musician, sitting on wooden stools in a bare hall brought the story to life last night for the spellbound audience. There were no fancy sets, or lighting. This was raw theatre of the best kind. As one audience member said: " One would expect to see this on major stages in large world centres, but to have it offered in a small community in Nova Scotia is truly amazing ."  Bravo Paul Rapsey and Alec Frith.

Paul Rapsey's revised film, " Desperately Seeking Samuel " (2024) has just been jury selected for inclusion in the Palma Film Festival (Mallorca, Spain). The film, with actors Paul Rapsey, Gillian Ormerod and Katie Yeoman, is not yet publicly available. It will be released locally this fall. However a short trailer to the film is now available on YouTube at:  https://youtu.be/9WUMF0jMnAM . Paul performed the stage version live in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia and elsewhere late in 2022, after the release of the original version of the film earlier the same year. The earlier version previously won recognition at two independent festivals. The stage version and the current film version followed a revised script that Paul wrote during the summer of 2022. This script added an Epilogue that was intended for a female actor. However, because no one suitable was available at the time, Paul performed this role himself. The film was released first because of the then restrictions on...

Paul Rapsey's latest play, The Little Wooden House, will not be premiered until late fall of 2024 because of his busy summer and fall schedule. However, the trailer in now available on YouTube at the following link:  https://youtu.be/0ZWdd_MCnc4 .  This forty minute monologue in the Talking Head genre of film is about loss and discovery and the impact it has on the lives of those involved. The play was performed live in May 2024. For the live production, which was a benefit for the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens, Rapsey teamed up with Nova Scotia musician Alec Frith, who performed original works during a filmed introduction and between each of the five scenes. Frith was not available for the film.

The trailer to the revised Desperately Seeking Samuel film (2024) has now been posted on YouTube. Although the revised film has been released to several independent film festivals for consideration, it will only be premiered publicly in the fall of 2024 because of Paul Rapsey's summer schedule.  Rapsey performed the play live in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia in 2022.  Stay tuned.  The link to the trailer is:  https://youtu.be/9WUMF0jMnAM

The launch of Paul Rapsey's newest book, " The Listing Lighthouse ", was welcomed yesterday afternoon by an enthusiastic crowd at the Mad Hatter Bookstore and Wine Bar in Annapolis Royal. The approximately thirty people who packed the small space laughed with hilarity at several of the passages Paul chose to read. Paul said it was difficult to choose passages that did not give too much away. However the passages he read from four chapters in the book certainly engaged the audience.  The book is available at the Mad Hatter Bookstore and online through Amazon Books.