Friday 7th June 2013
Hello lovlies!-the weather has really changed this week in Ayrshire-warm and sunny-I'm scared to say could this be the start of Summer?!
Not only has the weather been lovely, but I had a lovely experience this week too so I thought that I would share with you.
Very near to Glasgow is the very friendly village of Bishopton, just a few miles west of Erskine. For many years now I have gone along to the twice yearly arts and crafts fair to exhibit and sell my jewellery. Bishipton have a lovely art group who meet regularly to paint and enjoys each others company. Twice yearly they hire the village hall, where they display their paintings and hope to sell them. A few crafters also display their work and home baking and tea are on hand . The village pour out for these two yearly swarays and its like meeting old friends! The group decided to have a theatre outing together and invited myself and family along. Ronnie, one of art group, works with the Kings theatre in Glasgow and conducts tours of the theatre. The date was set and the day consisted of tour of theatre, lunch together and the afternoon performance of Evita. All very exciting-but more so when my hero Marty Pellow (Wet Wet Wet) would be starring!
Robyn and I set off fairly early to make our way to Glasgow by train( a challenge as always with wheelchair)-arriving in Glasgow we were met by my parents and made our way to the theatre. We waited on the others arriving...joking that we had got the wrong day and the others would be late etc. Only to discover that we were a day early!!!-(muppets!!)-we did the full round trip the next morning and I had the most wonderful experience ever. Robyn could only take part in a small amount of the tour, due to the steps etc-but she was treated like royalty and saw so much. Back stage was where the real performance takes place, mostly in total darkness! The walls are old and painted black and the smell of history swirls in your head, ghosts of those whom performed on the Kings stage grab the imagination and transport you. I was over whelmed by just how many artistic people work out of the spectators view and how wonderful they are at their job. The wardrobe mistress sat with a her needles mending a costume in the darkness with only a tiny spot light to guide her fingers.
I learned that creativity is not just part of those on stage, but those behind the scenes that make it all possible.
Today I saw an other part of the Kings history take place and perhaps this cast will have left a little part of themselves behind for those in future years to tour the theatre and find !.
Until next time.x
