'Your motivation is your pay packet at the end of the week.' Noel Coward. My actor mate Rob has done bloody well, starring in a number of west end and TV shows. When I met him in the mid-noughties he was the tech on my first gig at the Lawrence Batley theatre. He was twenty-one. Tall, handsome, funny; he'd appeared in musicals at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, in adverts, and in Heartbeat and Coronation Street . He also had one of the most beautiful singing voices I had ever heard. Yet he would cry because he couldn't motivate himself to chase more work. 'I will motivate myself,' he said, 'but when the time is right. When I get more than one day off a week from teching the pantomime. When my sister’s back from her gap year in Africa and I don’t have to worry any more about her getting malaria or being Simba sushi. When I’ve done the round of auditions for drama colleges and one of them has said yes . Though even if they all say no I’d probably hav...
Iestyn Edwards Wonders...is it Lumpy or Runny?
Just a flaneur, flanning away.