Acting Up
Someone once said that life is not a dress rehearsal but, hey, wouldn't it be great if it was? Or just those key moments that went horribly wrong. Imagine those toe-curling episodes were just rehearsals and you got the chance to put in a better performance when it came to the real thing. You know, those events you still think about in the still of the night and then spring out of bed screaming "Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!".
Or is that just me?
I hope not because this is premise of Larry Sullivan's new series, Acting Up. Larry has recruited a crack team of young actors from the and each week they use role-play techniques to work with one person who needs help with a little bit of their life. In the first programme, for example, a Highland businessman got some advice on how to network at big gatherings of potential customers. He didn't quite know how to make an entrance when small clusters of colleagues were chatting in groups and he had a tendency to lurk behind people hoping they would notice him. Females in the group found this very unsettling.
Gosh, if only I'd been able to call on the services of those actors through most of my teenage years and early twenties. I would never have asked girls out on dates while eating fried chicken from a tub. I might not have flunked all those job interviews by turning up in a balaclava. And I just might have persuaded the bank manager to support my years-ahead-of-its-time idea for a new waste recycling business.
If only I hadn't called it 'Junkies'.
