UNDER RECONSTRUCTION
Mumbling In The Bath is a new web site by Digby Young – or it will be when I get my fingers around the “New Improved” WordPress site editor, and whoever perpetrated it!
OK I’m just a grumpy old fart learning a new trick – slowly.
For several years I maintained an “Audition Clinic” web site for the benefit of the many South African actors I coached and auditioned for supporting roles in foreign movies filmed in South Africa – when foreign movies were still filmed in this country. The infamous pandemic changed the way auditions were conducted – actors recorded their own auditions as “self-tapes”. Unfortunately that practice has persisted, mainly because the cost of Casting a film has been shifted to the actor – and to the Casting Directors and Audition Directors who once guided them to their best auditions.
A multitude of changes have taken place in a diminished film industry for almost as many reasons. I have stepped back from the studio for some of those reasons to concentrate on my neglected writing. I still have an interest in actors who wish to improve their skills – and I include actors finding their way in the slowly re-awakening Amateur Dramatic movement – so I will for now tuck some of the relevant content under “Audition Clinic” on the menu.
I will gradually post some of my short stories on this site, plus mumbly and probably mostly grumbly Essays or Opinion Pieces as they escape my noisy head.
I don’t sing well enough to even sing to myself in the shower, but I have been told that I write well enough to share some of the noise in my head – as long as I don’t shout – hence “Mumbling in The Bath” tucked away in a quiet backwater of the World Wide Web, as far as possible from the whirlpools and storms of Unsocial Media.
Till next time,
Digby Young