My friend Sheri Herren nee Stanley, is in a production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" which is touring Ireland, then will return to the States in Washington, DC.
She sent me this email, and these photos!
I always thought touring would be glamourous, but it kinda sounds like fun.
Congrats Sheri, and her boyfriend Richie!
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Hello All - I thought I would send an update. If you don't want to get these e-mails please let me know - I won't be offended! I have attached 2 photos - one of me as Nurse Ratched and Richie as Martini - have a good laugh at both! There is a blog site being set up for the tour, which I will forward to you if you want to keep up. Below are some excerpts of our activities since we've been here. It's a lot more work than I thought. I have been painting, building, searching for props since I've been here - I'm an ACTRESS people - where is the star on my own dressing room door? :) Tonite is our last night in Galway and we take the set down and head for Dublin! The theatre here is beautiful and I was on stage here in 1999 in Streetcar Named Desire (as the upstairs neighbor and Richie as the husband - who knew?) So, it's good to be back. We had a bumpy start as you will see below, but we are on our way. I know all of my lines, so that is always the first hurdle! We had about 350 people - almost sold out - our first night. And a huge standing ovation at the end. They already love to hate Nurse Ratched, which I guess is good. :) Enjoy the story below and I will keep in touch. I hope no one washed away in the hurricane there! Miss you all,Sheri From the Director: it is THURSDAY morning and we open tonight -- mark and the folks who run town hall theater decided to cancel last night's preview -- the primary reason for this is we've got a wounded actor and he needed to rest...so, as to that story:KJ, one of our actors on tour -- he plays dr. spivey and also doubles as patient Ruckly -- had a seizure on Monday while we were building the set and had to be taken to the emergency room in Galway. no one knew what was going on and we were all so scared. He also dislocated his shoulder during the seizure. Sheri and Kevin were out getting soda for everyone when this happened, and when they returned (while we were still waiting for the ambulance, which came very quickly actually), Sheri told us that KJ had told her that he has had seizures before -- not many, but it has happened before. he has never been formally diagnosed as epileptic (those Icelandic doctors!) -- so at least when Sheri arrived we had some context for it. anyway, KJ spent the day in the hospital (they ran blood tests, brain scans, etc.) before he was released. The role of Ruckly calls for the actor to have his arms spread as if on a cross for huge chunks of time, so obviously KJ can't do that at the moment! He is supposed to keep his a rm in a sling for six weeks (!!!!), so he might wear a sling for the role of the doctor. he says he's ok without it (that's our KJ), but we're letting him play that by ear and we are fine with it either way. so. our MASTER SET BUILDER, steve shaw, has agreed to stand in for the role of Ruckly for the duration of Galway and also for Dun Laoghaire, our next stop on tour. steve is a friend from past tours (he does build and tech work at the Pavilion in Dun Laoghaire) and is kindly doing us this favor (we just gotta knock his scottish accent out!) yesterday during the run through we worked Steve into the show. he's our saviour!so yesterday we went full tilt to try to finish the set and tech, working from 10 am until 3 pm, taking a two-hour break, and returning with actor hats on to run the show at 5:00 pm -- a long stop-and-start tech run with fixes that had us at the theater until just before 11. today, about half of the company has been working since this morning (rich gave some folks the morning off), and we will run the show at 1 pm (final dress) and open tonight. all the folks who had tix to the preview last night are bumped to tonight, so it should be a full house. cancelling the preview last night (in addition to giving KJ and Mark** some downtime) also bought us some MUCH NEEDED time to finish work on the set -- I suspect there will still be some final touches tomorrow, but we're getting there... oh, and yesterday in a different galway paper there was an advertisement for our production accompanied by a picture of ...JACK NICHOLSON.
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