Sunday, October 21, 2007
Hello Friends, Family and Comrades,
First, I would like to thank everyone for their thoughts, support and prayers for Split Knuckle Theatre over the last year. It’s an amazing feeling to have so many people helping to make a long time dream of mine come true. Over the last year Split Knuckle has performed in Buenos Aries, London, Edinburgh and as some of you already know Split Knuckle Theatre has recently returned from Bucharest, Romania, where we played the Pearl for an international festival. If you haven’t checked out our website there are many photos and reviews from our travels. WWW.splitknuckletheatre.org . Apparently the Romanian Minister of Culture traveled to Edinburgh last August to see the festival and invited shows that he or his committee liked to come to Romania. I was told he travels incognito and never tells anyone who he really is, so we did not even know he was in Scotland at the time. I'm not sure how true the incognito part is and I wonder if the Romanians were having a go at the Foreigners. It felt like being a rock star being picked up at the airport and driven where ever we needed to go. Their hospitality was overwhelming. The theatre space is relatively new and it is the first independent theatre in Bucharest. All the rest are National theatres that are considered to be linked to the old traditions. There was an old lady who was our dresser who took a shine to our company. She saw the first show and was crying afterwards and trying to talk to my mother. Neither one of them could speak each other’s language. Despite this, they tried desperately to communicate with each other that they thought the show was very moving. Afterwards I had many long conversations with her where I could not understand anything she said except "Oh Michael! Oh Michael! She seemed very happy to be working with us. You could tell this woman had spent her life working in the theatre and helping actors. Here are our thoughts for the future. We have recently been invited to play the Pearl at the New Jersey State Theatre next year. This will be our US premier. For those who could not make it to Argentina, the UK or Romania you are all invited to see us in the most exotic of states, New Jersey.
This company continues to amaze us all. Every time we sit down to dinner together in another country, all from so many different parts of the world, we are all surprised that we made it to the same room again. Somehow it seems right and people continue to love the work we are bringing them. I hope all is well, that you are healthy, happy and passionate about life. Thanks you again. Love Michael Toomey ¶ 10:50 PM
First, I would like to thank everyone for their thoughts, support and prayers for Split Knuckle Theatre over the last year. It’s an amazing feeling to have so many people helping to make a long time dream of mine come true. Over the last year Split Knuckle has performed in Buenos Aries, London, Edinburgh and as some of you already know Split Knuckle Theatre has recently returned from Bucharest, Romania, where we played the Pearl for an international festival. If you haven’t checked out our website there are many photos and reviews from our travels. WWW.splitknuckletheatre.org . Apparently the Romanian Minister of Culture traveled to Edinburgh last August to see the festival and invited shows that he or his committee liked to come to Romania. I was told he travels incognito and never tells anyone who he really is, so we did not even know he was in Scotland at the time. I'm not sure how true the incognito part is and I wonder if the Romanians were having a go at the Foreigners. It felt like being a rock star being picked up at the airport and driven where ever we needed to go. Their hospitality was overwhelming. The theatre space is relatively new and it is the first independent theatre in Bucharest. All the rest are National theatres that are considered to be linked to the old traditions. There was an old lady who was our dresser who took a shine to our company. She saw the first show and was crying afterwards and trying to talk to my mother. Neither one of them could speak each other’s language. Despite this, they tried desperately to communicate with each other that they thought the show was very moving. Afterwards I had many long conversations with her where I could not understand anything she said except "Oh Michael! Oh Michael! She seemed very happy to be working with us. You could tell this woman had spent her life working in the theatre and helping actors. Here are our thoughts for the future. We have recently been invited to play the Pearl at the New Jersey State Theatre next year. This will be our US premier. For those who could not make it to Argentina, the UK or Romania you are all invited to see us in the most exotic of states, New Jersey.
This company continues to amaze us all. Every time we sit down to dinner together in another country, all from so many different parts of the world, we are all surprised that we made it to the same room again. Somehow it seems right and people continue to love the work we are bringing them. I hope all is well, that you are healthy, happy and passionate about life. Thanks you again. Love Michael Toomey ¶ 10:50 PM
