 It's
easy to imagine soldiers drilling in the mist in the North Courtyard of
Blenheim Palace, but on the morning of the World Premiere, there was just
me and lovely Australian-born actress Anna Scott, who played the role of the Queen of the Sidh. Don't we look calm, cool and collected, standing by in evening clothes for publicity photos? Well, beneath that smiling exterior, Anna was drilling me on my lines. Not the lines from the rhyme. I knew them. But the new material I wrote especially for the World Premiere for Save the Children. The entire business with the Queen of the Sidh and the Waifs was still a bit fuzzy. By mid-morning, the mist was clearing from the North Courtyard and the fog in my brain was dissipating, too. Happily, Anna stayed behind long enough for the photographers to get that excellent "Welcome to Blenheim Palace shot to open this World Premiere Performance chapter of this Grumpuss Legacy. |
