Michael Gambon & Dublin Carol

basics of the Michael Gambon page and the Dublin Carol (trinity rep) page are uploaded.

Dublin Carol
It's so much fun to backtrack on theater visits... once I've caught up I'll only upload (close to) real time experiences, but Trinity Rep's Dublin Carol was over 5 years ago, and really the start of my present Theater interest. Copying old reviews onto the website has been a trip down memory lane, a real treat.

2006 was terrible year in my private life, suffice it to say that a big loss prompted me to be more of a 'seize the day'  kind of person, resulting in a spur of the moment trip to Vegas and New York that summer. Made some new friends in Vegas, among them other theater fans, and among them my now oft travel buddy for Theater trips... serendipity.

So Dublin Carol in Providence RI was already a plan before flying out to Vegas/NYC. I remember being in New York on the day that public sales for Dublin Carol opened. This was 2006, internet access in hotels was either expensive or wonky to say the least. Managed to login on time to grab some front row seats right before the connection went out, victory was mine!

Why Dublin Carol in Providence of all places? this was a special occasion, one of my favorite tv actors had announced to take some time off from his tv show and go back to do a short stint of Stage work. This hit the news at an all time low in my life, apparently my survival instincts honed  in on it as a diversion, and it worked nicely.

So William Petersen wanted to be back on stage for a while, and he picked this nice small theater in Providence RI to do it...  more on Dublin Carol later.

Michael Gambon
There is a lot to say about Michael Gambon, no doubt I will post more about him when talking about the plays he was in because as much as Dublin Carol was an important play for me, Gambon's performance in Pinter's "No Man's Land" I saw a couple of years later in London was another landmark.

For now I will leave you with the observation that mr Gambon is an excellent actor both on stage and on screen, but more than that he is a very gracious star, who takes time for his fans and then manages to get lost in the crowd without anyone bothering him... talent.