Good Woman of Setzuan ended its run tonight. All in all, I'm amazed at how positive people have been about it. I was expecting the show to be a bit more divisive than it ended up being. People were engaged with the story, blown away by the set, and no one seemed irritated or bored by the style of acting. At least that's what they're telling me. Hopefully there's not some big cadre of people mumbling and grumbling about how over-blown everything was. Regardless, this was one of the most fun experiences I've had being in a show. It was a little crazy, but the camaraderie that developed among the cast was unlike anything I've seen in a show with this many actors. In summation, it was a damn good show to go out on.
*Side Note* I seem to have the most fun when I'm being directed by friends and peers. The whole Radio Play process was really fun, and although rehearsals for On Air Off tended to be strange, performing the thing was awesome. I guess that makes sense though, working with friends is a much more supportive environment than working with strangers/people you're intimidated by. *End Side Note*
Now that the show is over I'm gonna have so many oodles of free time it's gonna be like "woah." But I will miss being around those folks. And I will, in my own crazy way, miss being Paul (the name of my homeless man character). True, he's just another crazy repressed pedophile who got run out of a small rural town and is now homeless in the big city, but he was still a great guy to embody for a few hours of each day. I don't know if I'll ever get a chance to do something like that again, unless I become Daniel Day Lewis. And I don't want to become Daniel Day Lewis. Cobbling doesn't suit me.
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