Can we say errant and truant?!
Post-Christmas Break, I made my way back out here to the City of Angels and was readying myself for the first day of directing my one-act, which (save the first day) has been going wonderfully. My actors are already adding life to their characters -- which, because they are retaining the blocking as well, is not a bad thing in the slightest. Additionally, because I feel the script calls for it, I have made the show a little more multimedia -- I have a video projector and a screen, onto which I will be projecting a very short film I edited together that mainly has clips from news reports of all of the violent headlines prior to July 7, 1994 -- my play's title -- (Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding, Kurt Cobain's suicide, the O.J. chase) in order to get my audience exactly in the frame of mind I want them in. Also, there is a time aspect that is a recurring thing through the show, where before each scene, the time is projected -- not to mention, supertitles for when during some scenes, I have a character that only speaks Spanish.
So, all in all, things are going well - today I have a basic blocking run-through with all of my actors (sans one who is still out of the country) and we'll really see where we stand going into the weekend. I ran 4 of the 6 scenes yesterday and they are coming along marvelously, but we'll have one of the actors that I haven't seen since Monday there today and see if this one's progressed from where we were at then...
Anyway, sorry for my absence, but hey, absence makes the heart grow fonder...jeez, I'm glad I don't have a lisp, because then I could only say "absinthe makes the heart grow fonder" -- and having never tried absinthe, I wouldn't want to speak a mistruth here...
