February 2017 - The Diary

Rehearsals all month for BUTTERFLY at Motherwell Civic Theatre and really enjoyed the process our director Sarah McCardie put in place and working with James Rottger and managed to squeeze in auditions and other gigs around our schedule! Delighted also to have another article published in the

Greenock Telegraph regarding my family research and links to the town. I had my first piece published in this brilliant local paper in 1983 and so nice still to be of interest to the editors and a huge thanks to James Hunter who researched the article, which has already opened up new lines

of enquiry! Then back to rehearsals for BUTTERFLY and a trip to Edinburgh to meet with Heart Of Midlothian FC for a really interesting possible role at the club. Attended a very moving ceremony at their Tynecastle Memorial Garden alongside John Roberston and Scott Gardiner.

A recall for another feature film, followed by more fun rehearsals in Glasgow's Gallowgate, always a lively old place to work in! Here is Sarah McCardie & James Rottger and I in our wonderful rehearsal space having a bit too much of a laugh to consider it actually 'work!' Been a great gig !!

Then off to Cineworld for a Weir Family outing to watch T2 TRAINSPOTTING and a great success! I have had a fantastic reaction on social media to my appearance in this movie and thank you to everyone for your support. I'm getting some odd looks in the streets of Scotland already!

Off to The Citizens Theatre press night to watch my pal Mark Barrett in Cuttin A Rug and lovely to catch up with old friends and my first Acting Teacher Dorothy Paul! Then it was time for another trip to London with a fab COLOPLAST live event at the superb Melia White House Hotel and working with a great team of actors again. Flew to Glasgow for more meetings for DRESSERS, a feature film I am helping to produce, then back to Tynecastle and more work on our club history project.

Finished our short rehearsal period and moved to Motherwell Civic Theatre for our double-bill of plays, BUTTERFLY and OUT OF THE BAD. Set amongst the Caterpillar sit-in of 1987, the shows were performed together for one night only, with cast including James Rottger, Kate Donnelly & Keira Lucchesi (pictured below!) Many of those actually involved in the Caterpillar occupation were

in the audience and it was a rather special night for all of us involved and both plays received a fantastic reaction. All photos here are courtesy of Eddie Middleton. Huge thanks to Stephen Wright from Fairpley and especially to our wonderful director, Sarah McCardie. Not just a fine actress but a marvellous director, and to Anne Hogg who wrote both of these wonderful 50 minute plays. sad to 

be only performing these once, but we are hopeful of another run later in the year and a special mention to James Rottger (pictured above) my co-star in BUTTERFLY who was fab to work with and a great young actor. We had a blast doing this job and worked really well together and I look  

forward to doing so again at some point soon. The night was a huge success and was an honour to be a part of. Then up and down to London again for more auditions, and thus concludes another really exciting and diverse month of work, with some more interesting jobs booked in for later in 2017.