I remember Kevin calling me sometime in early 2013 saying he was finally putting together his long talked about dream project and telling me how it was going to be an experience of a lifetime. Actually, he badgered me about how I had gone missing from theatre and that it was high time I did something. It was almost eight years after leaving school (i.e. the last time I had acted) and I had recently switched jobs. So, I decided it was time to add even more change to the cauldron of life.
Kevin cast me as the main antagonist of the play as a psycho serial murderer. To add to my repertoire of notable roles after six years of “Shakes” such as the murderous wife of Macbeth and a murderous friend of Caesar. Type casting at its best! (Thanks man…!) But he was right about one thing. It was indeed an experience of a lifetime. I had the most fun I had had in years. Including learning how to tie a hangman’s noose and then driving around with said noose in the boot of my beat-up old Starlet in the dead of night.
Kevin’s dream project has certainly come a long way not just as a theatre troupe but as a place for fostering future actors and giving back to a place we both hold dear: St. Joseph’s College. It has been a special privilege to have been along for even a small part of this great journey. A salute to all the casts and crews past and present and the stalwarts who continue to keep the ball rolling at CT7. Cheers to a brilliant future…!