Buglight Theatre, a small but innovative troupe, devised a
clever way to give people a smile while under house arrest.
Send us your mini-monologues!
As it happened, I had just had new hearing aids fitted and been
amazed by the assault of sounds I had not heard properly for years. Birdsong poured from every tree. At the same time every
breath I took whooshed in my ears, And so the idea for my monologue was born.
Sting’s song with the chorus Every breath you take
has a distinct rhythm of da-da-dah-da-da. I paced the house, hearing the
gunfire crack of hundred year-old floorboards creaking, and tried to put words
to Sting’s tune. Not easy. Anyone can string five words together, but I needed couplets
of five words that made sense and fitted a da-da-dah-da-da pattern.
Buglight paired me with the actor Pam Hilton, who did a
splendid job. You can hear the result at
Madeleine McDonald
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