Nikki’s Notes | April 2024

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. I am writing this in good time because my rehearsals for “Home. I’m Darling” – just a quick plug for the next offering at Bromley Little Theatre – are hotting up and I need to concentrate on line learning in earnest now. That said, dear readers,…

Nikki’s Notes | March 2024

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. I am hoping the Spring will have sprung by the time you read this my friends and we will all have a spring in our step. This month I thought I’d muse a little on the audition process, which I find less agreeable now I’m no…

Nikki’s Notes | February 2024

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. What a feast of theatre there is at the moment dear readers – and I’ve managed to take advantage of some of it. The day after returning from my Christmas break, I ventured up to London to the Noel Coward theatre in St. Martin’s Lane to…

Nikki’s Notes | January 2024

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. I do hope you had a merry Christmas full of cheer dear readers. By the time you read this the shortest day will be gone and we can look forward to lighter nights and spring – oh and more exciting theatre, I hope. Right now I’m…

Nikki’s Notes | December 2023

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. Well dear readers, in these dark days the world needs statesmen just as the nonprofessional drama world needs – well – men! I know you will be sad too that our December show has had to be postponed due, I believe to a lack of ……..

Nikki’s Notes | November 2023

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. Although I’m writing this in October, dear readers, Autumn is now well and truly here and the holly outside my study window is covered with red berries, heralding Winter and the Christmas season. So am I full of peace and goodwill? Well, as far as bonding…

Nikki’s Notes | October 2023

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. I feel a bit frazzled at the moment dear readers. I am stage manager, props and prompt on the next Bar show at Bromley Little Theatre and am also required for some rehearsals as Lady Saltburn in Present Laughter, BLT’s main house production in October. There…

Nikki’s Notes | September 2023

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. Well, here we are again dear readers, edging into Autumn with another edition of my Notes. An article in the Saga magazine about A.I. – Artificial Intelligence – prompted me to wonder if Am. Dram. could become the last bastion of A.A. – Actual Actors. At…

Nikki’s Notes | August 2023

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. I usually take a rest in August dear readers, but since the pandemic I seem to be musing on something every month. I will try, however, to keep this offering somewhat shorter than previous editions, as some of my readers have complained of tired eyes! However,…

Nikki’s Notes | July 2023

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. Well dear readers, I’ve just returned from seeing an ex-neighbour aged 93 in her care home and actually drove in rain! It was so refreshing and a relief to think I wouldn’t need to water my little patch of garden tonight. Next week I hope to…