I may make my first appearance on a Spanish stage sooner than I thought. The play that I was cast in, The Dice, is now in rehearsals full force. The three of us work almost everyday and need to have the show ready in 20 days to show to a producer! After that, my director would like to do a run in English, like the script was written, and then translate it and do another run in Spanish! This should be interesting. I wonder if it’ll be harder to memorize my lines because they’re in Spanish or easier because I already know them in English. The play was almost cancelled a little while back because we had trouble finding a third actor and my director was busy writing another play. He actually asked me if I was interested in directing the show! I thought about it, but ultimately decided that it would be too much. The director is dedicated to this show now and we found a really cool actor to fill the cast – a 6’6″ black English guy with dreadlocks named Jay. Imagine this: he’s a university physics professor and the two short white guys are the intimidating police detectives. And we actually make it work. I have an audition for another play next week, as well. It’s called Volpone and was written by Ben Johnson, a friend of William Shakespeare (the language is pretty much the same). It’s all about greed and lust and all of the people in the play have personalities indicative of certain animals. There’s a fox, a crow, a snake, a lawyer, and oh so many others. I may even get to play the trumpet in this show (I’ve been planning on picking it up again after a 4 year hiatus). I’ll keep you updated on that one.