Gallery updates and news from Allan the Herorat

I’m currently adding and switching the galleries, and while I’ve tripple-checked everything, it’s still possible that you might stumble over dead links. I hope everything will be fixed by next week. I noticed that links in the navigation bar are missing on some pages; I’ll correct those as soon as I’ll find the time.

The biggest addition is the new

THEATRE GALLERY

where you can find pictures from some of the stage productions Damian O’Hare’s been in. Check out the one for “The Countess” – the scanner’s fixed and there are proper scans from the programme now.

Then there are new galleries for Taking the Flak, The Broken and promotional headshots, plus additional pictures in the Fractured gallery. Och, just have a look at it yerselves:

And now for something completely different…

Allan, the Herorat “adopted” by this website, sends his greetings from rainy Tanzania (they’re approaching winter now).  His training in REST (Remote Explosive Scent Tracing) is coming along very well. They continue to research the optimal and least optimal soil conditions, moisture content,  and various concentrations of TNT to see the perimeters if he and his colleagues can detect TNT. Looks like he finds it interesting to have different concentrations of TNT and different types of soil to work with every day!

Through the work with these samples, Allan and his colleagues provide important data to find the best working conditions for rat detection technology, and it will help to figure out in which weather conditions, locations and scenarios they are most effective.

Allan’s trainers John and Abdullah keep telling him that he’s becoming stronger and stronger at clearly indicating samples of dirt that contain TNT. Go, rat, go!

One of the trainers with Allan

If you’d like to support Herorats as well, or maybe even adopt one of the four-pawed heroes, please go here.

Usual disclaimer: “Hero Rats” is the charity of choice of the webgnome running the website, not of Damian O’Hare.

Damian O’Hare in “The Countess”

I’m currently without a scanner, hence the poor quality. Once mine is back, I’ll do proper scans and add them to the gallery. The pictures are taken from the official programme of the production at the Criterion Theatre in London back in 2005. Damian played artist John Everett Millais, who, to quote Millais-biographer Jason Rosenfeld’s introduction in the programme, was “(…) floppy-haired, gangly, attractive, amusing, preternaturally gifted (…)” – an Aca-Fan, who’d have thought!

Website move successful / Damian O’Hare in “The Countess”

As you can see, the transition of the website went smoothly and, to my knowledge, without any downtime or broken links.

And now for something completely different – random picture of and random quote by Damian O’Hare in “The Countess”.

“I love the immediacy of theatre,” he [Damian O'Hare] enthuses.
“Hearing the gasp of the audience and really feeling the language
is simply amazing. The writing is a million times better than most
television dramas.” – 2005

Theatre: Random Quote

“(…) And Damian O’Hare, who is in The Countess, is great. I have to have a love interest with him, and that can be hard if you don’t believe it. You can busk a lot, but you can’t busk that. You have to be brave, because you have to look at each other with an open heart. Brave actors are those whom you want to be with. He is never anything other than 100% truthful to my face. (…)”

Alison Pargeter, when asked to name her favourite co-stars