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Tag Archives: This is Not Acting
The Madness of Tim Curry (and other theatricals)
The madness of Tim Curry (see title) is a special kind of insanity. It’s the true actor’s gift — the ability to be fully invested in whatever scene and character you are performing at the time. For example, watch this: … Continue reading
In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
What happened was this: A person leaving the bar from point A (the bar’s parking lot) wanted to get to point B (the street directly across from the bar’s parking lot) by crossing Line C (Westheimer, a busy road). They … Continue reading
Posted in Living
Tagged Experiments in Person, Experiments Societal, The Ugly American, This is Not Acting
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On Behaving Like an Actor on the Stage
When I started, I was a poor actor. Now, I’m still a poor actor, but at least I’m not in debt. But what, forsooth, you might be thinking, was the problem with your acting? Namely, this: That I was too … Continue reading
Posted in Theater, Writing
Tagged A Year of Living Bloggily, This is Not Acting, Writing
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On Cancelling Shows, Namely, Tonight’s
First, the bad news: There will be no show tonight. Due to a complication with our lead actor, the Thursday (7/29) showing of “Tuned to a Dead Channel” had to be cancelled. Then, the good news: However, the rest of … Continue reading
On Understudies
Question the First: What do you do if you can’t fit under the desk? The problem with understudying is that your position is, by definition, expendable. Not you, yourself, no. And not actually the position of understudy, either. But in … Continue reading
On Having Lied About What I Would Write About Today
Sorry for all of you Ionesco enthusiasts who were dying to hear about my thoughts re: his most famous play Rhinoceros that would’ve been quickly followed in the days ahead by thoughts re: The Killer and a number of his … Continue reading
First Night Blues
By the time you read this, the first performance of “Oedipus and the Sphinx” will be over. The curtain will have gone up, the actors will have said their pieces, and the curtain will have fallen. Except there is no … Continue reading
Posted in Theater
Tagged A Year of Living Bloggily, Linguistic Experiments: Theater, This is Not Acting
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It’s opening night! Open everything!
Opening night is such a strange experience. Suddenly, all the time you’ve been spent working on this one production, whether it be months or weeks or years, is resolved to a single small segment of time, some two hours in … Continue reading
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Tagged A Year of Living Bloggily, Linguistic Experiments: Theater, This is Not Acting
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From the Page to the Stage and Other Facile Rhymes
I hadn’t planned on acting in “Oedipus and the Sphinx”, but that doesn’t mean I would’ve been divorced from the production altogether. With this play, I was simply planning on being the producer – though, of course, I was already … Continue reading
Two Bees or Not Two Bees
I am not an actor. I have been in the past. I’ve taken the requisite acting classes in college. I was in a play in high school (that I wrote) and the musical once or twice (the chorus, of course). … Continue reading