April 17th 2009
A while back, D.J. From Monkeyman Productions asked me to direct a one-act play as a part of a double-bill of his plays entitled MONKEY SCI-FI HORROR THEATRE (which is appropriately typed in all caps. Only all caps. Ever). I said yes, and so I am directing Dead Man’s Party, a play about Dungeons & Dragons and the Zombie Apocalypse. Which, you have to admit is pretty awesome. If a play about Dungeons & Dragons would be pretty cool, and a play about the Zombie apocalypse would be awesome cool, then a play combining both would be super awesome cool (what can I say, I gotta let my geek flag fly).
This last Wednesday, we had our first reading of the play and next week we will begin rehearsals in earnest. I quite like this play, and so I’m very much looking forward to having it as the first entry on my directing resume.
For those interested, MONKEY SCI-FI HORROR THEATRE runs May 22-23 and 29-30 at the Imperial Pub (54 Dundas Street East, not far from Yonge Street) with special LATE-NIGHT second performances on Saturday nights at 11pm!
In other news, on hoping to be appearing in a BYOV in the Fringe Fest this July. Details on that when they become available.
On the writing front, I’m working on a one-man play right now. This is going to be a long-haul kind of project, but I’m liking the process so far.
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April 12th 2009
A while back, Sarah Malden called me up and asked me if I’d like to shoot a short film with her. I said yes, and took my new video camera along and shot a bit of video.
Here’s what I put together.
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April 7th 2009
Its been a while, and I never really got around to posting the Keystone Theatre pictures we had done from the workshop last fall.
Time to fix that.
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April 4th 2009
I have to say that it was fun.
It was a strange thing, though. Turns out the whole “crapshoot” idea went beyond the performers. The audienc in the cabaret space rolled a 6 sided die (of course only a gaming nerd like me would need to specify that it was a six sided die) and the number that came up is the amount that you paid. So getting the audience inside took a half hour. When they were all inside, there were 138 of them. So, yes the place was packed.
Adam and I were called up third, and the crowd was receptive. They laughed where we hoped they would and seemed to enjoy the scene. So that was good.
But there was one other thing that they were doing that I didn’t know about. After all the acts had performed, they had the audience fill out ballots to vote on their favourite, who would act as the headliner for the next edition of Crapshoot in month.
The upshot: our scene didn’t “win”. But the performed that did was great, and I was happy to “lose” to her.
So, a good night. But now I am tired and on my was home to sleep.
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April 2nd 2009
This Crapshoot thing at Passe Muraille is a little nerve wracking. I’m performing a short scene from a play by Adam Bradley (a fellow Dragonquest alum).
Crapshoot works like this: there’s, I don’t know, 12 acts in the night; each act has only 5 minutes. After the show at the theatre that night, they open up the cabaret space, serve some drinks and hand everyone a “menu” of the acts on tap that night. Using the menu, the audience says what order they want to see the acts in. The votes are tabulated and the show starts. As I understand it, the acts don’t know their place in the line up until their name is called, and when your name is called, your 5 minutes start.
So, yeah. Nerve wracking.
Also nerve wracking (or adding to the wracking) is the fact that I’ve had only a week with the scene. Oh, I know: your thinking “it’s only a 5 minute scene” and you’d be right. But I feel like I could use more time. More time with the text. More time with rehearsing. Just more time.
But alas, there isn’t more time.
I should stop bitching though. It’s my birthday tomorrow and I’ll me spending the night of my bithday performing. What more could an actor want?
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