How To Be a Successful Santa...Via a Demented Doorman Two years ago I was sitting at home, coming to terms with retirement from a lifetime of trying to persuade people to do what I wanted them to do (well, apart from my mother and dad, who were always trying to persuade me to do what they wanted me to do! I had reached a point where I was treading water and wondering where the business was going and then... StoryTelling Corner came along and set me on the path to a weird and wonderful journey, through acting, to the ultimate Christmas role as Santa. StoryTelling Corner was one year old when I saw an advert for extras to appear at The Loft Theatre in Leamington Spa. I'd faced a live audience for most of my life so this would be no big thing, right? Wrong! At the first call, not enough people turned up and so we were all told we would have roles in the play. Six weeks of rehearsals brought us to the opening night of a six-night run-up to Halloween 2018. The reviewer ...