Happy Thanksgiving arts community.
Today, I am especially thankful for the theatrical and artistic community that is Seattle. I'm learning so much and meeting so many amazing and talented people. Thank you.
Enjoy the day.
11.24.2011
11.21.2011
For the Love
It's over.
I can't believe it. The show has concluded. I'm so ridiculously proud of the show and my fellow collaborators. An experience like c. 1993 (you never step in the same river twice) just reaffirms my love of collaboratively created/devised/generative work (or whatever you want to call it). With some time and distance I'll be able to be more articulate about the ins-and-outs of the experience and the reasons why I think collaborative theatre is exactly what the modern theatrical world needs. But for now, I can only muster sappy thoughts.
Out of everything that was great about this particular show and is great about generative theatre in general is the people the art form draws to it. You tend to get an eclectic, unconventional, ridiculously talented group of people who all have something unique to bring to the table. This group:
is no exception.
I love you guys.
I can't believe it. The show has concluded. I'm so ridiculously proud of the show and my fellow collaborators. An experience like c. 1993 (you never step in the same river twice) just reaffirms my love of collaboratively created/devised/generative work (or whatever you want to call it). With some time and distance I'll be able to be more articulate about the ins-and-outs of the experience and the reasons why I think collaborative theatre is exactly what the modern theatrical world needs. But for now, I can only muster sappy thoughts.
Out of everything that was great about this particular show and is great about generative theatre in general is the people the art form draws to it. You tend to get an eclectic, unconventional, ridiculously talented group of people who all have something unique to bring to the table. This group:
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| Photo by Ian Johnston |
I love you guys.
11.14.2011
50/50
Just in time for our closing weekend, we get one more review on the City Arts blog.
It's a pretty good one if you ask me. So far, this makes our reviews half in the positive direction and half in the more negative direction.
Doesn't matter to me though. I'm in love with this show.
It's a pretty good one if you ask me. So far, this makes our reviews half in the positive direction and half in the more negative direction.
Doesn't matter to me though. I'm in love with this show.
11.09.2011
Split Focus
Reason number eighty billion in the "Why I need to go to grad school" category: split focus.
(Okay, there probably aren't that many reasons but there definitely are reasons and good ones too.I will now outline this reason for you.)
I have had a phenomenal time working on c.1993 (you never step in the same river twice) at Annex Theatre. The reactions have been mixed (view reviews here: The Stranger, Seattlest, The Seattle Weekly) but I'm really proud of the work we have done and how we work together as an ensemble. I've had a place for my creative energy. It finally became so I wasn't living a life that consisted of work, my apartment, eating, drinking, sleeping and doing it all over again. As corny as it is (not even may sound, is), I feel somehow more complete when I have a creative endeavor and especially when I get to present that creative endeavor to the world.
And yet, in all this happy creative fulfillment, I'm not doing one thing: writing. I can not seem to split my focus fully between acting and writing. Now the two are definitely not mutually exclusive; often one goes with the other. However, I have been pouring my creative energy only into the show which is good for the show but bad for all the copious amounts of scripts that need editing, finishing, or starting. This is why I think I need to go to grad school. It's not that I can't split my focus and work on two creative endeavors at one time. It's that I don't yet seem to have the discipline to force myself to sit down and write every single day. I am disciplined in so many areas of my life but the consistency of daily writing is not one of them. I always refer to myself as an "inspiration writer," someone who writes almost exclusively when the lightning strikes. Recently, after participating as a playwright for the Double Shot Theatre Festival in Tacoma, I learned that the label of "inspiration writer" that I had placed on myself could actually be false. I wrote of script in five hours because I had to, not because the lightning struck.
More and more everyday, I am thinking about grad school. It is on the near horizon. I think I can almost see it.
Time to get crackin'.
(Okay, there probably aren't that many reasons but there definitely are reasons and good ones too.I will now outline this reason for you.)
I have had a phenomenal time working on c.1993 (you never step in the same river twice) at Annex Theatre. The reactions have been mixed (view reviews here: The Stranger, Seattlest, The Seattle Weekly) but I'm really proud of the work we have done and how we work together as an ensemble. I've had a place for my creative energy. It finally became so I wasn't living a life that consisted of work, my apartment, eating, drinking, sleeping and doing it all over again. As corny as it is (not even may sound, is), I feel somehow more complete when I have a creative endeavor and especially when I get to present that creative endeavor to the world.
And yet, in all this happy creative fulfillment, I'm not doing one thing: writing. I can not seem to split my focus fully between acting and writing. Now the two are definitely not mutually exclusive; often one goes with the other. However, I have been pouring my creative energy only into the show which is good for the show but bad for all the copious amounts of scripts that need editing, finishing, or starting. This is why I think I need to go to grad school. It's not that I can't split my focus and work on two creative endeavors at one time. It's that I don't yet seem to have the discipline to force myself to sit down and write every single day. I am disciplined in so many areas of my life but the consistency of daily writing is not one of them. I always refer to myself as an "inspiration writer," someone who writes almost exclusively when the lightning strikes. Recently, after participating as a playwright for the Double Shot Theatre Festival in Tacoma, I learned that the label of "inspiration writer" that I had placed on myself could actually be false. I wrote of script in five hours because I had to, not because the lightning struck.
More and more everyday, I am thinking about grad school. It is on the near horizon. I think I can almost see it.
Time to get crackin'.
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