Just got back from the interview...

I want this job.

The Original Theatre is a little company. They are operating by the skin of their teeth on a shoestring budget. The tour would take me to every corner of the UK, and it sounds like they have a lot of NEAT venues lined up. Theatre, castles, holiday spots, a sport arena, etc. They are all about making Shakespeare both accessible and pushing the experimental side of it. They want to bring a level of audience participation into it.

In modern times, the large form of live entertainment is sports, soccer in the UK. People get into it, they cheer, they boo, they participate. Back in the day, audiences were the same way with theatre. Shakespeare wrote a lot of sex into his plays to keep the groundling interested. It was standard practice to cheer the heros and boo the villain. The Original Theatre wants to try and bring some of this back. So we have some very common venues, and some very upper crust venues.

Sounds like so much fun!!!

I will find out for sure by Thursday. They said I have good chances and they liked what they saw, but they have two or three other interviews on Wednesday. They said they have to do the interview for the sake of fairness, since these people are coming from a long ways away. I like the sound of "for the sake of fairness."

This would be so awesome...