Marie Cooper in Someone Waiting by Emlyn Williams January 2019

Someone Waiting by Emlyn Williams

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Marie Cooper performing Hilda, the maid with an interesting past, in ‘Someone Waiting’ at Great Hall Theatre. 22 January to 26th January 2019


I managed to tick quite a few things off of my acting bucket list during this production in a small, but challenging and fun role. One of which included slapping one of my fellow actors.  It turned out to be surprisingly effective.  The audience oooooh’d and gasped when Hilda struck Mr Nedlow across the face. I was very pleased with this as we had practised it a number of times.  Hilda’s slap managed to shock the audience, despite my not making any contact with Mr Nedlow’s face at all.

I also had to perform drunk. What I mean is, I acted drunk whilst on stage, I didn’t actually get drunk to perform. I got some nice comments from fellow actors saying that Hilda was nicely drunk and that it wasn’t overly done, which I am very pleased about. Acting drunk is a tricky thing to do convincingly, whilst still trying to enunciate so that the audience can hear.

An in-depth review of the play was written by Rob Fradley-Wilde and published on Facebook and in the Great Hall Theatre Company newsletter.

“the maid Hilda was able to go to her death with style, in Marie Cooper’s vivacious and feisty example of the mid-twentieth-century servant class. “

Andrew Cliffe of Norwich Photo photographed the following images during the dress rehearsal of Someone Waiting.

Norwich Photo

Cast

Hilda                                      Marie Cooper
Mrs Danecourt                Glenda Gardiner
John Nedlow                     Chris Higgins
Vera Nedlow                     Samantha Elmhurst
Martin                                  Steven Logsdon
Walter Fenn                       Kevin Ford
Miss Lennie                       Rachel Miller

The photos below were taken by members of the cast

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