Acting

I went to see a show today that required a member of the audience to read out the last two pages of the play and I found myself yearning to be the one who did it, which startled me. I’ve been performing twice daily almost the entire year, so it’s not like I haven’t had my chance recently. So I have to conclude I must retain an insatiable desire to perform. Which is worrying, because does that mean I’m going to need to find a way onto a stage for the rest of my life? If you’ll forgive the name drop, when they were doing a play together, Jack Lemmon told me that if Michael Gambon hadn’t become an actor, he’d probably be in a lunatic asylum. And then I think of all those actors who are still performing in their 80’s and 90’s, who presumably still feel a need to get up there and do it. Does it mean that the feeling I first had when I was five years old is going to last until I drop?