On 8/19/2013 2:42 PM, Kalmia wrote:
> On Monday, August 19, 2013 11:36:08 AM UTC-4, Janet Wilder wrote:
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>> When I played the nutty medium in the Noel Coward play, "Blythe Spirit"
>>
>> a couple of years ago, I looked up turban tying on the internet.
>
> Oh, Lord - I remember a few lines from that part. Something about speeding downhill on a bicycle, like a dragon fly. And "Ou sont les neiges d'antan....?" Am I close?
>

You are dead right. I ws the only one in the cast and probably the
audience who understood the French and knew it made no sense.

It was a nightmare to memorize those lines as they were not in the
English I speak. The rest of the cast were not terribly good and the
director was useless.

I had to faint dead away to the floor twice and jump on a piece of
furniture and deliver an incantation. A very "athletic" role for a
senior lady, but I was, they tell me, great.

I had promised a dear friend with terminal cancer that I'd read for the
part. I did the play in her memory and dedicated my performance to her.
She was truly a blyth spirit.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
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