The obligatory, still alive thing.
So,
We're about to open Grapes of Wrath this Friday, well technically Thursday, if you want to count the IDR. It will be my first professional piece of theatre, and I have learned a lot about this business. And I am suddenly a little disenchanted with professional theatre scene. It's nowhere as tight knit as being in a real company. People look at you weird when you suggest group warmups and trustbuilding exercises.
It is however very telling. I have discovered I have a very slow learning curve. It takes me much longer to grasp things because I need time to understand them fully, being that I'm a ravenously subjective, and prone to flights of fancy. 3 weeks, would not be enough time for me to do a "Broadway" not, yet anyway.
This sucker, is an epic. I never read grapes of wrath in elementary school, ha, coincidentally I was in an assisted learning reading class, and we were reading something a little more simple. But anyway, the play is magnificent, it follows the Joad family on their quest, moving, shifting like the road on which they travel, route 66. There is the strum and pick of a guitar in the hands of an old tired looking man, the plunk of banjo in the distance, and a shivering jawharp that will surprise you every time. There are moments of joy, grief, anger, desperation, and hope permeating every scene. I love this play with all my heart and promise to dedicate myself to it, as a labor of the most pure love.
PS Sara Schmatz, you the shit dawg.
We're about to open Grapes of Wrath this Friday, well technically Thursday, if you want to count the IDR. It will be my first professional piece of theatre, and I have learned a lot about this business. And I am suddenly a little disenchanted with professional theatre scene. It's nowhere as tight knit as being in a real company. People look at you weird when you suggest group warmups and trustbuilding exercises.
It is however very telling. I have discovered I have a very slow learning curve. It takes me much longer to grasp things because I need time to understand them fully, being that I'm a ravenously subjective, and prone to flights of fancy. 3 weeks, would not be enough time for me to do a "Broadway" not, yet anyway.
This sucker, is an epic. I never read grapes of wrath in elementary school, ha, coincidentally I was in an assisted learning reading class, and we were reading something a little more simple. But anyway, the play is magnificent, it follows the Joad family on their quest, moving, shifting like the road on which they travel, route 66. There is the strum and pick of a guitar in the hands of an old tired looking man, the plunk of banjo in the distance, and a shivering jawharp that will surprise you every time. There are moments of joy, grief, anger, desperation, and hope permeating every scene. I love this play with all my heart and promise to dedicate myself to it, as a labor of the most pure love.
PS Sara Schmatz, you the shit dawg.