31st October
Happy Halloween! Are you scared? I am: I'm in a theatre play that opens next week and we're not ready yet. I'm also off to a ghost stories evening at the theatre tonight; I've had a few people there tell me, with faces as straight as a ruler, of their eerie encounters. Actually, one encounter involved me.
I was in a two-hander there, a play with only two people in it, and I got to the changing room one evening to see a concerned look on the face of the other person in the show. "Have you only just got here?" he asked. "Yes," I said in response. And at this, he blanched. He's a gruff sort of fellow with a streetwise sensibility: not a person I would associate with being easily scared. But he was. "I was just talking to you," he said. "You made the curtain move as you walked past." I remember the hairs on my arms and neck standing up, and I haven't been as confident sitting in that dressing room alone since.
