Probably no one reads this anymore because I never fucking post on it with any degree of regularity. But I'm going to keep writing, dammit, despite the fact that three months have passed since my last entry. Did anything happen during that time? Fuck yeah, it did. Christmas happened. That's one thing. Then New Years pretty soon after that. January 3rd happened just a few days after that one. Then I visited Los Angeles for a week, which was pretty cool in a "I Am Going To Live Here In a Little Less Than A Year Oh My God That's So Frightening And Kind of Exciting In The Most Frightening Way Possible" kind of way. Then in between I glutted on movies, as I normally do when I'm not beholden to work. Then I came back to school. Hurray!
I'm in a show now called The Good Woman of Setzuan, or, as it's normally known, The Good Person of Szechuan, by Bertoldt (sp?) Brecht. I play the Carpenter, the Policeman and the Priest. Even with the triple-casting, it's a small role, but it might very well be the last time I do any acting, so I'm trying to relish it as much as possible. The process is really cool. The concept behind this staging is that it's actually a group of homeless people with no real training or education putting on a play, not a bunch of student actors trying to develop their characters in more traditional ways. So in order to build our characters on stage as though they were being performed by homeless people, we're actually rehearsing as though we were a group of homeless people. That is, we're improvising for hours at a time, building and developing these homeless characters that ultimately the audience will never get to see, all so the performances on stage will have a certain weird, removed quality which is kind of what Brecht was going for. It's a really cool way to rehearse, but it makes me wonder what the final product is going to look like, and whether people used to regular ol' stage acting will respond to it in a positive way. Regardless, I'm having a great time with it, which is all I could really ask for.
I applied to the Fringe Festival with Every Pilot yesterday, under the new title Despite Everything. It was a long process trying to get every little detail perfect, from the application to the cover letter to the script itself. I hope I got everything right, otherwise I'll be feeling pretty awful about myself come April when I sit by my mailbox and get nothing after weeks on end. But there'll always be next year! ...When I'm living in L.A...*sigh*
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
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