It's our last couple days in Ireland, and it's all feeling very bittersweet to me at the moment. It will be nice to get home and see everyone again, but I will definitely miss getting to know Ireland and spending time wandering each city, seeing sights, and meeting locals. I'll miss the large appreciative audiences and the great conversation in the pubs after every show.
I will especially miss living with the cast. At the first readthrough, Susan, our director, emphasized to us how carefully the cast was chosen, not merely for talent and type but for being on the tour, and I can see now that she was absolutely right. There is so much potential for things to go wrong or for people to get nasty when living together and being together 24/7, but that has never happened and I am honestly sorry that when we get back and start the run in DC we will all go back to living in our own homes.
Some of my favorite memories of this trip are of the bus rides from city to city, when Brad pulls out his guitar and people request songs and then everyone sings. And of being at the pub til the morning with the cast after the show, talking and drinking and enjoying getting to know new people in every city. Or of the potluck dinners we did in Kilkenny and now in Cork when everyone brought their favorite dishes (moussaka, shepherd's pie, beet and goat cheese salad, loaded nachos...) and we all ate and sang and danced and enjoyed the evening in.
While this hasn't exactly been a vacation and doing the show every evening has been everyone's priority, there still has been plenty of time to see sights, shop, and get to know each city. And I'm so glad I got to do it with this cast.
Today I'm taking it easy and relaxing a bit before meeting a friend who's flying in to visit, but tomorrow, I will be heading to Blarney Castle to kiss the Blarney stone before our last show in Ireland. Then Sunday, we leave Cork at 7am for a 10am flight from Dublin to Atlanta and arrive back in DC at 11pm, where I will ring in my 21st birthday, most likely at the airport.
Not a bad way to start my 21st year I think. ;)
Cheers!
Sarah
PS...if you haven't seen the trailer for our production of the Crucible, here's the youtube link. Enjoy and pass it on!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEaS9VHkCxk
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