Broken Promises

Okay, let's face it. I never did the wrap up post that I promised and thought I would do. The transition between Apocalypse Plays and the next projects was brief, so I took the time for myself. I will conclude the project just a bit, in case anyone is still reading and wants to know what is going on in my head:
I am so proud of the work that we did. Theatre is never easy, and doing theatre that is produced by strictly students, especially ones learning how a production team and producing body works is a challenge in and of itself. I know things I would do different for sure. I still struggle with finding my voice in the rehearsal process, figuring out when and how to say things. I do, however, understand my writing voice so much better and how to further develop my plots and characters. You can bet those pieces, especially Regarding Eden, will be getting rewrites and will hopefully be remounted in a future date.

Enough of that.
As you can see, I changed the name of the blog. Although the url will stay the same (apocalypseplays.blogspot.com), the focus of the blog will move to my life as a theatre artist (hopefully, I can add "working" to that title some day) and the projects I'm working on. Speaking of which, I'm currently working on two shows.

The Miracle Worker
Character: Aunt Ev
My last major show at Western is on the mainstage and faculty directed. It will be a nice way to end my career at WWU, by doing what I came here to do: act. My part is not very big but that does not matter. When I enter, I am to be mighty: a sweeping Southern woman who often oversteps her bounds. Right now, I'm struggling with trying not to make her a stereotype. She was a real person after all.
Oh and guess what? I think I'm getting a bustle. Yes!

The F Word
Returning to my love: devising. The F Word is the brain child of Amanda Woodard, and her senior project to boot but I am only too happy to oblige. The concept of the show is based on feminism but who knows how it will go from there. We are in the research phase and I think we're all feeling a bit overwhelmed. I considered myself to be knowledgeable about feminism, at least the history of feminism, before but we're all finding that there is so much to know. Research is a good start but what will really effect the work is our personal stories. I hope the research does not stall us as we move forward. Currently, I'm having a hard time coming up with moments myself because I have so many things behind me. I have ideas but nothing is coming to fruition quite yet. We're having our first movement rehearsal tonight so I'm hoping that sparks something inside me.

In the meantime, I am writing too but I think I'll save that for a future post.