Acting Inspired

Great chat with Dan Caleb. Covering themes including - Mental Health, Truth, Self Healing, meditation. We also have one of Dan's pre-recorded tunes (On The Hillside) and he even plays us his latest song (A Meditation on the Death of a Friend) live in my living room! Check out "On The Hillside" on Spotify and follow on twitter, facebook and Instagram: @dancalebmusic  ENJOY!!!  

It's been a while. Edinburgh was crazy and I'm not great at balancing priorities. So all of my focus was on the show and the HOARDS of mistakes i made in the run up to and during the festival.  I'm currently on holiday and will be back soon to give a more detailed review.  Big Love, Lewis x x x 

It has been a mad, one as you know, but finally I  have found 5 minutes to sit down and have a little think and share that with you lot, as I do!  So here is the first week review of being here!  ENJOY!!!

Kae and Rin steal the host chair and take over Acting Inspired for this late episode! It has been a mental week of getting last minute admin bits done, tightening the show, deciding the show needs to be totally rewritten and getting blocked on twitter... Rin is smashing it with my social media and Kae has been the head of logistics! Its been great but did mean we missed a pod... But here it is! ENJOY!!!

Give us all your money! please? we'll give you some gifts in return!  Like... A personalised song made by Lewis Goody or even a whole, infamous, hot air baboon night... Totally in your honour! For just YOU! That is going to be sooooo therapeutic!  put all your cash in this bag... I love you all... NEARLY THERE ENJOY! 

I missed a pod last week and I feel terrible about it. It's really time to shape up, I was in such a good place when I started this three years ago and it could be so much more. I talk over the crowds chanting for the England/Columbia game about deadlines and discipline. Post me talking about doing stuff we have a post-show talk with two dudes who have done so so much in the last year or so - Its the final post-show talk post Section 2. with the writer Peter Imms, Producer Jon Tozzi, Actor Alexandra Da Silva, Kate Louis Haywood - Experienced being sectioned - and her sister Liz Rotheram. ENJOY!!!  

Post Show Talk for Section 2 @ The Bunker Theatre with: Karl Knights who was sectioned in 2016, Alison Kerry from Mind, Director of ‘Section 2’ Georgie Staight and cast members Nathan Coenen and Esme Patey Ford.  Update on progress of "I CANT DO THIS!"  ENJOY!!!

The creatures have done us proud! What a fantastic piece of theatre I have just seen. An important topic, well executed in every way.  I will be hosting the post-show talks on the 19th June and 3rd July and I can't wait so please come down and say hello! Orrrrr if for some reason you're avoiding me... yes... you... Then come on any of the other nights!  https://www.bunkertheatre.com/  PERFORMANCE DATES & TIME 11 June - 7 July 2018 Tuesday and Fridays at 8:30pm Standard: £15.00 Concession: £12.00 U30s (10 per performance): £10.00 You can buy a double-bill ticket for SECTION 2 and NO-ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU for £22 as part of our BREAKING OUT season.  ENJOY!!!

As I begin to feel slightly more comfortable about the show it is time to start thinking about raising the money to do it. It's interesting to me that my brain goes, "why should anyone give us money to do a show and festival that we chose and wanted to do?" I guess I have learned over time to not put much value on to the arts, especially if it is my own thing... what a bummer!  I did my show in Plymouth and had a great time, I learned a lot about what needs to change and what needs to be added and scrapped, so it was great but did leave me feeling a little worried and lonely oddly?!  ENJOY!!!

Its been getting STAGNANT on the ol' AI pod of late so some time out and away from civilisation was much needed! Cleared the air of my mind and gave me time to get some things in order.  I'm lazy, it is out of fear but I'm still lazy, that's the bottom line and it's about time I did something about it. I am doing that by doing this show but I need to apply that to the rest of my life. It's too too easy for someone like me to get bitter. I am working on it now though.  I have my show in Plymouth tomorrow and I'm looking forward to it! I'm excited and nervous to show the people I grew up with what I've been up to... lots of running around naked and playing the ukulele...  LET'S DO THIS...

I'm losing it! Everything is good! Life has finally found some sense of direction! I know what I have to do now! I'm also overwhelmed with this relatively late discovery! and wait, oh no, I'm losing this newfound sense of direction... That's the general vibe for today's pod. If I had more time I probably wouldn't have even posted this. but I don't have more time, so here, have my raw unedited emotions! Also, I'm doing a show at the rosemary branch Theatre tomorrow night, come and see me and my work in progress! I CANT DO THIS... check it out HERE!  LOVE 

Some confidence has been built as I perform more regularly. I feel good and that maybe I do have something worth exploring! I'm looking forward to getting stuck into development but I do still need to tackle the admin side of things. That is now where the fear stems and the pool which I should definitely jump into next!  So here goes!  ALSO... Come see Me and Isa and Dan Thursday 24th May at The Rosemary Branch from 1900. Its a great Venue with two great shows on!!! and other awesome previews that whole week! All information for the said event can be found on this very facebook page!  ENJOY!!! 

Thank you to everyone who managed to make it down last Saturday!  I got through one! Its the beginning of a loooong journey but it had to start someone and now it has started fo real!  I learned a few big lessons a few small ones and few medium sized ones...  The sound of this pod is horrible, I'm sorry, you will hear why in the intro!  Please come on down to the Cats Back For round two on 13/05/18 6:30pm it's gonna be a blast! https://www.wandsworthfringe.com/whats-on-2018/i-cant-do-this ENJOY!!!

Got my show on Saturday at the Cats Back, Wandsworth, 5:30. I am scared scared scared! That is all.  I'm in way over my head, some say its good to get out of your comfort zone. What do you think? At this point I'm not so sure.  At the end of the day I will still be alive after Saturday, I think. So who cares really - this is a mantra I am trying to drill into my head, as caring what other people may or may not think, is the one thing that has stopped me from doing many things in life. So WHO CARES!  ENJOY!!!

Fear, anxiety but also excitement...  I battle with the voices in my head which also happens to be what my show is all about. Its getting closer and WAY MORE REAL!  I'm scared, I wish I was a kid again and things wos just fun and that...

I forgot to do a pod, I've been pretty damn busy of late and it totally slipped my mind.  Auditions are picking up a little, which is nice, and my show prep is... I'm struggling but we will get there in the end!  Caroline or Change at the Hampstead theatre was pretty sick!  I'm doing an hour... At the Cats Back. Its a part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival and you can get tickets here! PLEASE COME! 5th May @5:30 and 13th May @6:30  ENJOY!!!

Jon and Nathan return to tell us all about Paper Creatures goings on in the upcoming months. These guys are soldiers. They're Duracell bunnies. They just keep going and there is no sign of them stopping any time soon! I'm hugely inspired by them every time we meet and you will be too. Just a year ago they were here talking about an idea they had when on tour together. Now they have their second play on at the bunker theatre coming up in June. Hear all about it here and make sure you follow Jon, Nathan and Paper Creatures on all social media. You're gonna wanna keep an eye on these two.  Section 2 is on at the Bunker Theatre from 12/06/18 - 06/07/18 check out www.bunkertheatre.com to book tickets NOW!  https://www.papercreatures.net/ @paper_creatures @jon_tozzi @NathanJCoenen on Twitter. paper_creatures on Insta. @papercreaturestheatre on facebook.  

Guess what? more moaning! but don't worry I'm sure this means I'm due an up at some point soon and everything will be freaking awesome again...  More guests very soon!  Patreon's still not up... who knows when you will be able to give me money for my services?! seriously though... BIG LOVE! ENJOY!!! 

Me and Rin catch up on his auditions, my gig on Thursday and The evolution of The Great Wave at The National Theatre from the first preview to press! Sorry Its late today, nightmare works going in my building!  I LOVE YOU! ENJOY!!!  

The routine of my brain is beginning to bore me. The up and down and round and round. It's so predictable but seemingly unavoidable. I know that in a few days or a week or so, Il be on top of the world and excited about my show and il fully understand why I'm doing it and what I'm trying to say. Right now, however, I couldn't feel less confident or even interested in it at all. Now this very feeling was the inspiration for my show name and themes, which is great, but it doesn't make dealing with these issues any easier.  It's not all doom and gloom though, as some of you may know I struggle to work any job in which I have to hold money in my hand or do basic math under small amounts of pressure, which is why I have avoided working in bars and pubs like the plague, but in these times of absolute desperation you obviously have to take whatever you can get. At my second shift in a pub over the weekend something dawned on me about my self and its something that has come up, on the podcast and from my friends and