Yes I am a theatre, as I wrote about in the article I am like a theatre, but I am a theatre on tour.
My work takes me around the world, China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Italy etc, giving courses, training people, passing-on knowledge, and working with people, and unlike the UK where I also give training, I am not the producer, I am not the organiser, I co-produce with the local organisers who become part of the theatre.
As I guest, as a co-producer, and sometimes a member of the actors or training team, I have to fit into their style, their play, their script, their culture, their understanding, their requirements.
My trainings can be said to be something like a theatre production is Mama Mia, Cats, in the West End of London or on Broadway in New York. That is my play, my musical, that I have rehearsed, that I know, that I am comfortable with and people come to see that.
Then I am asked to be part of someone else’s production, someones else’s training, to join a team of actors working on an operatic production in La Scala in Milano.
I have to be ready to change my performance, put on a new set of clothes, a new costume. Yes it will be uncomfortable for me at the beginning, and it could be strange for those that come to see the production, like knowing a famous pop star suddenly singing an opera, a comedian changing roles to play in a tragedy.
It is good to be adaptable and to love my profession, my job.