another opening, another show . . .
It feels as if my last show only just ended, but another one will be happening this Sunday, crazily enough. It's a different situaion from our usual. The play is a one-act, just under half an hour long, and the entire run consists of two performances in a single day -- at a small theater festival in downtown SF. Dozens of other companies will be performing the same day -- tiny little companies like ours, and a couple of great big ones too. Every possible corner of Yerba Buena Center will have something going on in it. Very fun! After our show is over, we're planning to check out some of the others.
Our play is wonderful. It's by the poet Edna St. Vincent-Millay and is called Aria da Capo. The first and last scenes have a pair of Commedia dell'Arte characters doing their schtick, very silly and fluffy, but the real heart of the piece is sandwiched between -- a story about two shepherds who build a fateful wall. That's my scene. Most of my characters have been goofy guys with no story arc to speak of -- challenging in their own way, but not the kind of thing where you go on a journey and end up somewhere completely different. This one starts out light but ends up at a really dark place -- the two shepherds literally murder each other at the end. Sounds nasty, but it's very satisfying to perform. And it all happens in an amazingly small time frame. Blink and you miss it. I hope we come close to doing it justice.
I'll try to get photos of our Pierrot. He's a real cutie -- and he's actually studied Commedia techniques, which really shows in his performance. Don't know whose team he bats on, but in any case he's waaaayyyyy too young and energetic for the likes of me. Nice eye candy, though. And a nice kid.
Our play is wonderful. It's by the poet Edna St. Vincent-Millay and is called Aria da Capo. The first and last scenes have a pair of Commedia dell'Arte characters doing their schtick, very silly and fluffy, but the real heart of the piece is sandwiched between -- a story about two shepherds who build a fateful wall. That's my scene. Most of my characters have been goofy guys with no story arc to speak of -- challenging in their own way, but not the kind of thing where you go on a journey and end up somewhere completely different. This one starts out light but ends up at a really dark place -- the two shepherds literally murder each other at the end. Sounds nasty, but it's very satisfying to perform. And it all happens in an amazingly small time frame. Blink and you miss it. I hope we come close to doing it justice.
I'll try to get photos of our Pierrot. He's a real cutie -- and he's actually studied Commedia techniques, which really shows in his performance. Don't know whose team he bats on, but in any case he's waaaayyyyy too young and energetic for the likes of me. Nice eye candy, though. And a nice kid.