The kindness of strangers.

To all those who have acted or performed in the past, and who want to do it again, what's stopping you? I'd like to know because something is stopping me and I'm not exactly sure what. Fear? Of failing? Of not actually being that good? Of having to work very bloody hard? Of not being financially comfortable? Of it not actually being what I really really want and that maybe I'll wake up when I'm fifty, with no money and not much talent and realise that it wasn't theatre but actually something else I wanted to do all along and that now it's too late to do anything else? Actors are constantly unsure of themselves, apparently. Except when we're on stage and gunning it and fully inside whoever it is we have become. The trick is getting to this point.

Have you got there? Where is 'there'? Are you trying? Did you decide to stop? Do you continue to believe you'll be discovered one day, if only you could get a show and someone would see how incredible you are?

I'm sorry. I dreamed last night that I was reciting Blanche Dubois in the kitchen. Now I am all a-fluster.