A new show.

My first show, "Chair" is ending it's 2009, 12 show, run next week so we've started rehearsal on the next show, "Denouement". It's a play that takes place after the resolution of a previous, much more exciting play.
Some recasting is needed as one actress has backed out.
Now, do I go find a homeless woman and offer her a chicken dinner a day to play the role or do I audition new people? As both are very very inconvenient, I will ask friends.
It doesn't seem professional to cast friends but then again, if I am to have any friends at all, I have to put them in shows because I won't have time for them otherwise.
Keep your friends close and your actors closer. Keep your enemies in a meat freezer somewhere. It's much safer.
Here's a short play about my enemies in a meat freezer:

Enemy #1
I wish I had been nicer to Chris Churchill.

Enemy #2
Me too. I now see how he's right about everything all the time and how admirable he is.

Enemy #1
I have also noticed how hard it is to eat frozen,raw beef.

Enemy #2
I have to say, Chris Churchill warned us abou that.

Enemy #1
Do you have any tongue left?

Enemy #2
Cow tongue?

Enemy #1
No. Your tongue. You got it stuck on that side of beef, remember?

Enemy #2
Of course.

Enemy #1
Where is Godot II anyway? He was supposed to be here.

Enemy #2
Why would he come here?

Enemy #1
Chris Churchill posed the same question.

Enemy #2
I wish I was Chris Churchill.

Enemy #1
Me too. Well, time to die.

Enemy #2
See you on the other side.

Enemy #1
Goodnight.