"someday this diary will make me famous."
last night was our most successful Harold. Not necessarily our best or funniest show (my two favorites were harold night 9/18 and cagematch 10/18), but this was our most mature Harold yet.
We came into this show with a few clear goals for ourself, big and small: (1) come onstage with a fun but businesslike demeanor, no crazy jumping or indulgence; (2) relate the pattern game to our real experiences, make it personal; (3) take our time at the start of scenes; (4) play real, play patient, play scenes.
And there were flaws and lapses from time to time, missed edits, jumped guns, etc, but we achieved all of our goals. This was our realest (not meaning, 'uncreative', but meaning, 'natural, non-jokey reactions'), most personal show yet. And this was the first time I can remember strangers patting us on the back and saying, "Great show" afterwards.
Also, this was the most level I've felt with a Harold performance. I was as calm as I've ever been going into it (adrenaline buzzing backstage, but otherwise very relaxed), and I felt completely relaxed afterwards (calm satisfaction, no jumping off the walls and no agony either.)
Anthony's notes- "that third scene [with me and Rob]- Wow... I loved every line of this." felt really good to hear.
Some of my Wengert classmates were in the front row. It felt really good to see them there, because last week we were studying realistic scenework. I feel like, Harold night is for the students, it's to show them a model of how to do this stuff well. And we did the patient, realist stuff the best we've done it yet. We set a good example.
Also, tonight was the first night that, I couldn't judge our show relative to the other teams. For the first time my criteria was genuinely about what We did relative to what We can do, not relative to other groups. I was just satisfied with the performance in and of itself, no competitive vibe.
We came into this show with a few clear goals for ourself, big and small: (1) come onstage with a fun but businesslike demeanor, no crazy jumping or indulgence; (2) relate the pattern game to our real experiences, make it personal; (3) take our time at the start of scenes; (4) play real, play patient, play scenes.
And there were flaws and lapses from time to time, missed edits, jumped guns, etc, but we achieved all of our goals. This was our realest (not meaning, 'uncreative', but meaning, 'natural, non-jokey reactions'), most personal show yet. And this was the first time I can remember strangers patting us on the back and saying, "Great show" afterwards.
Also, this was the most level I've felt with a Harold performance. I was as calm as I've ever been going into it (adrenaline buzzing backstage, but otherwise very relaxed), and I felt completely relaxed afterwards (calm satisfaction, no jumping off the walls and no agony either.)
Anthony's notes- "that third scene [with me and Rob]- Wow... I loved every line of this." felt really good to hear.
Some of my Wengert classmates were in the front row. It felt really good to see them there, because last week we were studying realistic scenework. I feel like, Harold night is for the students, it's to show them a model of how to do this stuff well. And we did the patient, realist stuff the best we've done it yet. We set a good example.
Also, tonight was the first night that, I couldn't judge our show relative to the other teams. For the first time my criteria was genuinely about what We did relative to what We can do, not relative to other groups. I was just satisfied with the performance in and of itself, no competitive vibe.