Stuttgart - Friday
20:00 - 24/06/05 - Today I felt more lump-like than usual. The heat was oppressive. I was checking my email earlier, in the Festival Centre, and felt a bit like passing out. And then, about a half an hour later, something broke in the sky and rain started pelting down, really hard, for about ten minutes. Then, it stopped, and the heat came rushing back, with a vengeance, along with her good friend Humidity. I ended up going back to the Berg - the Artist's Compound we're staying at - taking a cold shower and lying around on the floor.
When we came into the space tonight, it was as if someone had set a hazer off in the room - a light fog hung in the air, like mist, or maybe pollution. I started opening doors when Xerxes, one of the space techs, said he had a better idea. Next thing I know, four windows are opening in the ceiling, on hydraulics. We sat around and talked about theatre gear, the size of our respective countries, large and small cars and pollution, while all of the haze got sucked out of the room.
One of the joys of running my own sound in a theatre - especially a big theatre with great sound gear - is being able to play some of my favourite songs very very loudly.
Beautiful German Sighting #4679 : a slight woman with a close-shaved head (!) pushing a baby carriage in slow circles while singing to herself. Achtung.
21:41 - 24/06/05 - So, we're just really starting the show now. The one that runs before us, "Mermaids", ran long, and they added an intermission, so that really messed up our schedule. So while originally I was going to be done the show tonight in about twenty-five minutes, it's now more like an hour. Which, you know.... sucks.
I found out today that a tour to LA in March I was looking forward to quite a bit is now not happening in March. It's happening in October. The invitation is for two shows: "Revolutions in Therapy" (the one I'm doing right now, as I type) and "Recent Experiences" (the show I took to Belfast, Berlin & The Hague this past fall)
21:55 - 24/06/05 - Two walkouts, but I couldn't see who they were.
Tracy Wright is one of the few people I know who pronounces 'comfortable' with four syllables.
Someone is the audience is being really thumpy, somehow.
Anyway, so now I have to do two things. One, I need to think about finding work for this March, which up to this point I've been keeping free. Two, I need to start to think about maybe NOT looking for work next October. It's a bit odd to have to think a year and a half, almost, in advance, but oh well. Touring is where it's at, for me right now. I'm missing a tour to Berlin this November by a week (yeah a week that really sucks but I can't pass up two months of work for one week of touring) and after that I'm not sure when I'm going to be on the road again. Well, after Edinburgh this August.
That overhead fan is LOUD. Fucker.
Sometimes Tracy is so great at just shutting Jacob down.
22:43 - 24/06/05 - We're right at the end of the show and I can hear a whole whack of people in the lobby, just behind the door to my booth. I hope that's not reading for the audience in here. They're far enough away, I don't think they'll catch it. And I really hope the perfs don't hear it.
23:22 - 24/06/05 - Well, they heard it.
Oh and I forgot to mention, my digital camera got broken today. Well, really just the LCD screen, but it makes it difficult to take good pictures. The camera itself still works, though, so that's good.
When we came into the space tonight, it was as if someone had set a hazer off in the room - a light fog hung in the air, like mist, or maybe pollution. I started opening doors when Xerxes, one of the space techs, said he had a better idea. Next thing I know, four windows are opening in the ceiling, on hydraulics. We sat around and talked about theatre gear, the size of our respective countries, large and small cars and pollution, while all of the haze got sucked out of the room.
One of the joys of running my own sound in a theatre - especially a big theatre with great sound gear - is being able to play some of my favourite songs very very loudly.
Beautiful German Sighting #4679 : a slight woman with a close-shaved head (!) pushing a baby carriage in slow circles while singing to herself. Achtung.
21:41 - 24/06/05 - So, we're just really starting the show now. The one that runs before us, "Mermaids", ran long, and they added an intermission, so that really messed up our schedule. So while originally I was going to be done the show tonight in about twenty-five minutes, it's now more like an hour. Which, you know.... sucks.
I found out today that a tour to LA in March I was looking forward to quite a bit is now not happening in March. It's happening in October. The invitation is for two shows: "Revolutions in Therapy" (the one I'm doing right now, as I type) and "Recent Experiences" (the show I took to Belfast, Berlin & The Hague this past fall)
21:55 - 24/06/05 - Two walkouts, but I couldn't see who they were.
Tracy Wright is one of the few people I know who pronounces 'comfortable' with four syllables.
Someone is the audience is being really thumpy, somehow.
Anyway, so now I have to do two things. One, I need to think about finding work for this March, which up to this point I've been keeping free. Two, I need to start to think about maybe NOT looking for work next October. It's a bit odd to have to think a year and a half, almost, in advance, but oh well. Touring is where it's at, for me right now. I'm missing a tour to Berlin this November by a week (yeah a week that really sucks but I can't pass up two months of work for one week of touring) and after that I'm not sure when I'm going to be on the road again. Well, after Edinburgh this August.
That overhead fan is LOUD. Fucker.
Sometimes Tracy is so great at just shutting Jacob down.
22:43 - 24/06/05 - We're right at the end of the show and I can hear a whole whack of people in the lobby, just behind the door to my booth. I hope that's not reading for the audience in here. They're far enough away, I don't think they'll catch it. And I really hope the perfs don't hear it.
23:22 - 24/06/05 - Well, they heard it.
Oh and I forgot to mention, my digital camera got broken today. Well, really just the LCD screen, but it makes it difficult to take good pictures. The camera itself still works, though, so that's good.