Well, one show done, one to go.
World Without Memory is finished.
Last nights show went well, I feel pretty good about it overall.
Dave, the gentleman how played the lead, did a great job, he doesn't have a tremondous amount of acting experience, but he took the burden of carrying the show and ran with it.
Thanks for the props Tom. I'm glad you and your pops could make it.
I called about 9:30 (this is after a trip to Blockbuster and Wal-Mart) and you dad said you were in bed.
I'm a little sad you couldn't stay for the second show, incredibly funny. Very light hearted piece, rather enjoyable:
Degas C'est Moi. I'm also upset that I missed Brooke, she finally drives up to Logan and I don't even have the chance to meet her.
DAMN IT!
I'll be giving you a call, Tom, about 6:30 tonight to see how you feel. I'm going to head up right after work to get a seat for
No Exit and that Mamet play, I'll see if you want to meet me there.
In other news. I'm excited, I've almost got a read through put together for
Fitzlephisch.
The play it's self is actually turning out to be interesting, it still needs some rewriting in spots, and a lot, I mean A LOT of smoothing over.
But I'm incredibly surprised that I managed to write a full length, two act play.
I honestly didn't think I'd get past one act, but it's filled itself out at about 60 pages for the first act (give or take five or ten pages after rewrite) and 45 pages for the second act.
I'm excited to hear it read.
I'll keep you posted.
I hope everybody has a lovely weekend, I'll see all of you tomorrow for GEEKDOM.
Well here I am.
I survived the show last night.
I didn't think it was going to go well.
We ran it again an hour and a half before.
Then we ran lines back stage half an hour before.
I thought I was going to choke.
Then Kent showed us a focus trick and 'poof' my nerves calmed themselves.
The show had a few hinches.
Bumps if you will, but we didn't crash.
The audience responded well.
I gotta a lot of laughs, I didn't realize the show was that funny.
They then sobered up when the boy entered.
I don't think the play was as good as it could have been.
But it was good.
We have one more performance of it, then it's over.
I wish it ran for three weeks, that way we could work out all the kinks.
But oh well.
Annette, I don't think your desire to be fired is uncommon.
I have a job, that I don't dread going to in the mornings, tha I over all enjoy being at, but that same desire crops up every now and then.
I think every one feels that way.
So we're all there with you sister.
I wish I got your local news, I think it would be fun to watch you on t.v. rapping about stuff.
I rarely get nervous before a performance any more.
In fact, when I do get nervous, it is usually a faint twinge of doubt and second guessing right before places are called. And even then it fades quickly.
When I do get nervous, when fear strikes my heart beats a little quicker and my stomach revolts against it's self, I find myself unaccustomed to it any more.
The last time I got nervous before a performanc, genuine anxiety, was about a year ago.
It was last year when I did Tracers.
Tracers was an incredible play.
It gave a voice to soldiers serving in vietnam, it pulled in a human element.
Not only did the audience care for the characters, but we the actors genuinely cared for the characters too.
I was nervous because of the potential of the play to be awe-inspiring, and also because of the acting challenge it presented.
Every character is a challenge, every role is a different experience.
But some are like looming walls that beg to be scaled.
The script to Tracers was something of a challenge, but it is nothing compared to Last Tuesday.
Last Tuesday has many things in common Tracers: the potential to be breathtaking, eyeopening. Being able to identify with the characters and thier lives, even though you know nothing about them. And the director.
Same director, challenging script.
For me this is the most challenging script I've ever been handed. The lines were intensly difficult to memorize, the pacing must be dead on.
The character is also unlike any other. I alone talk to no one on stage for nearly the entire play.
I do converse, the entire time is spent on my cell phone.
Sound boring?
Well, it isn't. You gleem alot from the character through his conversation with his wife.
But that is all you are presented with.
At the same time, a husband and wife discuss their schedules for the next few weeks.
You get alot of info about them too.
This is a play about people, and tragedy, and society.
It is very common man, but metaphorical in a deep way.
I love the play, but to be honest it frightens me to death.
In two hours I'll be performing it.
I just hope I can calm my rim-fire nerves before then.
Completion.
Completion is at once both satifying and meloncholy.
Sad, yet rewarding.
Bruce, StarWars will be complete soon.
Yes it is sad, there can be no denying that, but it is not the sadness of it being over that I'm looking at.
It's the satisfaction of it's completeness.
I'm not thinking about how down I'm going to be when the final copyright and LucasFilms logo show up on the credits (yes, I typically do sit through all the credits, as does Tom), I'm thinking about how this third film will change the way I look at the last three.
So don't look at the bad Bruce, look at the good.
Deanne, I'm stoked for you and Joel's wedding.
Hell, I'm just stoked to see you guys, everyone in fact.
May is coming on quick, and this year it's got two equally different, and equally good things.
I'm STOKED!
My first show opened last night.
The acting was good..... the tech left something to be desired.
Now I'm usually one to complain, and now isn't going to be any different.
Our lighting design, which fit the mood of the piece well, only gave us about five feet of acting room for each vignette.
This forced the set to be adjusted in a very uncomfortable way for some of the scene's.
Then there were some tech problems, but that's the way live theatre goes.
I'm sure the performance on thurday will be much better.
This morning we had our "final" rehearsal for the other show.
I don't know what happened.
It's never been really smooth, just because it is just a difficult play linewise, but today it was a holy mess.
We had problems with sections we haven't had problems with for weeks.
Perhap's it's just the early morning hour.
We are getting together to run it one more time before the actual show.
I think it will go well.
I hope.
Terri Schiavo.
That's something I've been recently interested in, is the case her husband and her parents are fighting about her right to die.
As of the moment, a federal judge is looking at the case.
The reason the judge is looking at the case is because congress intervened on behalf of the parents.
They called an emergency session yesterday in fact, passed and signed a bill to have the judge take a look.
It's only for Mrs. Schiavo.
Nobody else.
Bush signed the bill, in fact he traveled back to the White House to sign it, and he's issued a statement:
"In cases like this one, where there are serious questions and substantial doubts, our society, our laws and our courts should have a presumption in favor of life."Incredibly eloquent for Bush, cudos to his speech writer.
I can sympathize with the parents.
Nobody, nobody wants to lose a loved one.
I can also see the husbands side: I personally would not want to be in the state Terri is in, and quite honestly would prefer death over it.
She is awake, and I suppose you could say aware.
Her mind has been wiped clean though, she's about like a baby, unable to take care of herself, and responds to outside stimula much like a child of about 3 months would.
The question should she live or should she die however, should NOT be the responsibility of the government to decide.
In my humble opinion anyway.
The U.S. government, particularly our Congress and our President should not be the ones making the decision on her fate.
I'm quite admondished that the courts had to be brought in to it.
The parents and the husband have been fighting for years on this now.
Which is unfortunant.
What's more unfortunant is that all branches of government are now involved.
Is this important?
Yes, in many ways now.
Before it was important because of the small group of people it affected.
Now it's escalated.
It's jumped to the point of being of nation wide importance.
Not because of the decision that will be made for Terri.
I am nearly split on the subject myself.
But it is important because of the effect it will have on the nation.
Is life so important that the government should have final say over it?
That's a question to ponder.
If the answer is yes, then the government should step in and start taking care of the homeless, a substantial portion of them die each year due to inclement weather.
If the answer is yes, then it is a recent revelation, because the past actions of this admistration of shown otherwise.
Or perhaps it is simply the politics of this particular situation.
Hmmm.... Maybe that's why it's important.
It has gotten alot of media coverage, most of the nation know's about it.
Most of the nation favors the parents....
Nah, our political leaders and represenatives would never pander to the population or the media.
They wouldn't do something, like pass a special bill, simply to gain a couple notches in the popularity contest that is thier lives would they?
Nahh, not our boys.
Our boys have nothing but interigrity.
Our boys have nothing but honesty.
If you don't believe me, look at our beloved House Majority Leader Delay.
No, Schiavo's fate is so important to the well being of the nation that our boys had to take a stand.
Schiavo's fate isn't simply another family tragedy.
It was.
But now it's something the entire nation can share.
http://www.terrisfight.orghttp://www.finalexit.org
