What an exhilarating, exhausting seven days! Saturday night featured the culmination of our week-long workshop: a performance for an audience. We'd finished exactly one run-through of our show prior to the audience's arrival, and we found ourselves quite jittery as a result. The performance went smoothly considering the frenetic energy surrounding the show, and we received some excellent feedback later that night. Sunday afternoon, we had a chance to incorporate some feedback into the show. Our major changes included taking more time (more breath) as we performed, exploring character-revealing moments during our subtitle/glossary sequences, and completely changing the initial mic check ("Is this on? Can you hear me?") to a surreal stutter through the book's title ("Wide slumber for lepodiatrists... Wide slumber for ledopter... Wide slumber for lipidopt... Wide slumber for leopardopterists...")Sunday night, we completed our second and last performance of Wide slumber at Harbourfront Centre. I love working with others in a creative capacity like this. I want to do it again and again. Not to mention the abandon, the sounding, the movement, what challenge what stretch. This has easily been one of the happiest and most rewarding weeks of my life.
Thank you, absolutely, to everyone who gave time and resources generously to this project. Thank you to everyone who attended! Thank you to all who've offered verbal and written feedback on our experiment. If you have (more) thoughts, I'd/we'd love to hear them; post 'em here or e-mail theatre@commutiny.net.
As for everyone's favourite question -- "what's next?" -- I have no idea. Grant app due tomorrow. MGCI's Going to Press on Thursday. Reading in Buffalo Thursday night. Test Reading Series on the weekend. Mercury Press launches and tour next week. What's next for personal creative projects? Find rest.
What are you working on right now?
2 comments:
Congratulations! I'm so proud of you!
oh, thank you, LN!! was lovely to have you in the room with us if only briefly, and to have your immense input and talent during summer development. looking forward to seussical; break a merde!
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