A new experience

 Tonight I took part in the reading of a new play.  The author finished this play recently and wanted to hear it read aloud.  I played the old lady ghost.  Talk about typecasting.  Yes, I said ghost.  Most of the action takes place in a cemetery.  This play was written by the same author who wrote "My Dead Clown" a play I had a small role in two summers ago.  I played an old lady in that one too.  You may sense a theme here  If you wonder about these deathly story lines, the author, in his everyday life, is a mortician.  What made this evening's read through a new experience for me was that we did it by Zoom and I learned a new trick.  I have attended many meetings by Zoom since early March so that wasn't new but creating a split screen was.  With some guidance I was able to have the Zoom participants on one half of my screen and my script, as a Word document, on the other half. Very nice, no shuffling through pages and I didn't need to use up a lot of ink printing out the script.  Not that I don't think it will be a hit, but you know, just in case it never gets performed, why should I invest my paper and ink?  It is actually a pretty good play.