The actors can’t remember their lines so, their hands are gripped on The Right Rant Rag Mail, or The Dark Deluded Mirror. or The Troubling Times with their lines tucked inside centre pages so they can read their cover-up script.
They walk the boards in every scene with their characters tabloid-nose down and sell tickets to audiences who are keen to see the latest breaking news interpretations in town.
During the play, they may need a stack of papers which they pick up from the prop table. It makes for some theatrical capers which they sort out during press rehearsal.
And all this because they can’t remember their lines! Actors who want to be dead sure they won’t corpse on stage. Even in London, seeing the classics behind broadsheets has become the west-end rage.
John Di Girolamo was born during the swinging middle ages as the Battle of Hastings raged outside on a cold, miserable Saturday evening just outside 'The Juggler's Arms' in Oxford, Torquay and Exeter at the same time. Born to a family, he spent most of his early years learning how to open umbrellas for a rainy day, and the runnings of horses and sword swallowers and the costs they incurred. Having graduated in 'Circus Management', he took to spinning plates for a living and persuaded his father to buy a restaurant to fund what he believed would be a lucrative career move. However, in the the days leading to The Age of Post Punk', he quit and would embark upon what was to go down in history doodles as a notebook.
Few knew it then but he had already started copying poetry, and often written by other people. As the minutes passed by, and Sardinia loomed, the idea of collages and drawings suddenly hit him as a way of filling up what had become a kind of book with pages and all. One day while storming off in a huff because his mum told him to, he struck upon the idea of putting it all together over a long-playing record (later a CD) and during a commercial break in the digital age, decided a blog would end Cromwell's ill-fated republic.
Sent off by recorded post, it would be by chance that his poems would get to their ultimate destination as, meanwhile, his pigeon who had queued so loyally for so long, sadly died the day before it was sacked.
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