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The State of the Mai
For those of you who've been wondering where I am - not that I post much, okay, but I do chat with a number of you all... All right, come on, pretend you missed me or wondered, okay?
Anyway, I've been dead swamped in theatre land. It's been great, but, between that and the beginning of school, life has been insane. I barely manage to do more than check my flists and log into whatever RP stuff I absolutely must.
But now that I'm down to, um... *counts*... 2 full-length shows in rehearsal and three upcoming dinner theatres, I can breathe a bit again.
Two weekends ago I directed two ten minute plays - first real stuff I've directed since college - at a big festival based on the Seven Deadly Sins. I got to direct the two Envy plays and had a blast with that although it was insane trying to find time for that around the three full-length plays I was involved with at the time and school and finding a roommate and all that good stuff (found one by the way, keep your fingers crossed she works out!). It was easier once the first two plays closed, but then I had to go back into rehearsal for one of them since we were bringing it to the New Hampshire Community Theatre Festival for competition this weekend.
Long crazy and stressful! Still, the directing went fabulously - and one of the playwrights wants to work with me because she loved what I did with her play and a couple of people said they thought the other one of my plays was the best there. Absolutely great if exhausting experience.
And this weekend? The play where I'm part of the black gospel choir? (Yes, I'm white, shush.) Well, we won. We won two awards for excellence in acting for our male leads, Best Actress in festival, Best Director in festival and Best Play. Which means we go to the regionals. And if we can pull off first or second place there in March, we could go to nationals.
The adjudicators loved the choir, couldn't imagine how the play worked before without one, and one of them offered to help work with our group to tighten it up and revamp the problem spots before regionals.
It was an amazing day yesterday. I'm surprised my head still fits through the doorway!
Anyway, I've been dead swamped in theatre land. It's been great, but, between that and the beginning of school, life has been insane. I barely manage to do more than check my flists and log into whatever RP stuff I absolutely must.
But now that I'm down to, um... *counts*... 2 full-length shows in rehearsal and three upcoming dinner theatres, I can breathe a bit again.
Two weekends ago I directed two ten minute plays - first real stuff I've directed since college - at a big festival based on the Seven Deadly Sins. I got to direct the two Envy plays and had a blast with that although it was insane trying to find time for that around the three full-length plays I was involved with at the time and school and finding a roommate and all that good stuff (found one by the way, keep your fingers crossed she works out!). It was easier once the first two plays closed, but then I had to go back into rehearsal for one of them since we were bringing it to the New Hampshire Community Theatre Festival for competition this weekend.
Long crazy and stressful! Still, the directing went fabulously - and one of the playwrights wants to work with me because she loved what I did with her play and a couple of people said they thought the other one of my plays was the best there. Absolutely great if exhausting experience.
And this weekend? The play where I'm part of the black gospel choir? (Yes, I'm white, shush.) Well, we won. We won two awards for excellence in acting for our male leads, Best Actress in festival, Best Director in festival and Best Play. Which means we go to the regionals. And if we can pull off first or second place there in March, we could go to nationals.
The adjudicators loved the choir, couldn't imagine how the play worked before without one, and one of them offered to help work with our group to tighten it up and revamp the problem spots before regionals.
It was an amazing day yesterday. I'm surprised my head still fits through the doorway!
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And winning a big competition like that makes the stress all worthwhile!
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