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Theatre and DanceYou are in: Cambridgeshire > Entertainment > The Arts > Theatre and Dance > Aloysius - bear-faced blogger: Part four  George tries out his new wheels Aloysius - bear-faced blogger: Part fourBy George Bear George the teddy bear is preparing for the role of his life - starring as Aloysius in St John's Players' production of Brideshead Revisited. Welcome to his regular bear-blog - a no holds barred look at life from a bear's-eye point of view... Part four - 9th October 2007: A bear with no lines? Nooo! It can't be true!Hallooooo! Well, here we are again – another exciting week in the theatrical world. My goodness, it is all getting s-o-o exciting, but I started out in rather a subdued mood. If you remember, I was in disgrace with my owner for attacking a member of the cast who had grossly humiliated me by sticking a Yoda mask on me in front of my beloved Olive (my owl girl-friend). I had been frog-marched (or bear-marched) home and left in a plastic bag in the spare room as punishment for my misdeeds.  George takes a bath! After a day or two, Olive came looking for me and picked me up in her talons by the scruff of the neck and flew me out of the spare room and into the garden. Aha! I thought – Olive has forgiven me, and she is now after a bit of canoodling in the bushes. Big mistake! She swooped over the garden with me and promptly let me go, right over the bird bath. “That’ll teach you!”, she twitted in an icy tone. Here, you can see me, bottom first, plonked in the said bird bath. Is there to be no end to my humiliation? My owner, after much sniggering and pointing, finally picked me up and left me, bottom up, to dry in the sun. Can we please now close this unfortunate chapter? Thank you.  Lucy - George's new 'squeeze'! Back to the play – weeellllll! I have fallen in love – again! Here you can see me with Lucy, the lady playing Julia Flyte, and a most charming lady she is, too. She plays my beloved Sebastian’s sister, so, whilst Olive is giving me the cold shoulder (or cold wing, in her case), I am JULIA’s! Pity she hasn’t got furry ears like me, I’m quite fond of those – Olive has furry ears….sigh!  George at the wheel of his hot rod! On Saturday, we had an “away-day”! I was taken to a local manor house and a gentleman brought along the old car that Julia’s leaning against for some photographs to be taken. The car, an Austin 7, was born in 1930 (that’s even older than my owner, the director), and you can see me here driving it. It was so exciting! The car’s owner started to turn a funny pale colour when he saw me behind the wheel, from jealousy, I expect, as I look most dashing, I’m sure you agree. Here you can see me with Colin, who plays Charles Ryder’s father called, er, Mr Ryder. He also plays Rex Mottram, a sophisticated Canadian, who buys a tortoise for Julia. Rex likes animals, I can tell. You can see him here gazing lovingly into the eyes of said tortoise, though I heard him say, “If this one dies, can another tortoise be put in its shell?” Charming.  Mr Ryder and the tortoise Hang on……another animal in it? I thought I was the only one? What’s going on? I have been assured that it was not a real tortoise. Though I overheard someone say about me, “Well, he’s not a real bear”. What do they mean?  George tries out the walking stick Here, you can see me with “Kurt’s crutch”. This is a part of the play where Sebastian is in Morocco with his German friend, Kurt, who is limping with the aid of said crutch. Kurt had walked off stage (perfectly normally) by the time this photo was taken. (So what happened to his limp, then? I was told this is what “acting” is. Pretending. I can do that…..I could be Kurt.) Unfortunately, my legs weren’t quite as long as “Kurt’s” so, after dangling in mid-air for a split second, the crutch collapsed under me. Perhaps I’ll stick to being Aloysius, after all. The play’s only three weeks away and I haven’t learnt my lines yet. Come to that, I haven’t had my reading lessons, yet. Come on, Ms Director, I have whole speeches to learn, a romantic scene, a dying scene……haven’t I? Please? Keep your paws on this page ready for George Bear's next blogBrideshead Revisited, produced by St John’s Players runs from 24th-27th October at The Townley Memorial Hall, Fulbourn Institute, Fulbourn. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites last updated: 11/10/07 Have Your SayQuestions for George Bear? He's waiting eagerly to hear from you and will shortly be available to sign autographs. George Bear (aka Aloysius) Ruth You are in: Cambridgeshire > Entertainment > The Arts > Theatre and Dance > Aloysius - bear-faced blogger: Part four   External Links
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