|
|
| Author |
Message |
| 25 new of 560 responses total. |
scott
|
|
response 425 of 560:
| 
Nov 24 15:17 UTC 2003 |
The Globe Theatre stuff was loaded out last night with no major injuries, just
one slip & fall on the Union loading dock (not me). And I'm just tired this
morning, no sore parts.
And it looks like I'm going to do a somewhat ambitious DIY electronics
project, a clone of the famed Teletronix LA2a compressor. Found some websites
from people who already did this, and aside from some pricey parts it doesn't
look too difficult.
|
twenex
|
|
response 426 of 560:
|
Nov 24 16:00 UTC 2003 |
re: 424: Heheheh. Thanks for that.
|
dcat
|
|
response 427 of 560:
|
Nov 24 16:24 UTC 2003 |
I may have a chance to earn $300 working on a Pittsburgh Musical Theatre
production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for two weeks. . . .
|
twenex
|
|
response 428 of 560:
|
Nov 24 16:51 UTC 2003 |
Cool.
|
cmcgee
|
|
response 429 of 560:
|
Nov 24 17:26 UTC 2003 |
re: 423 andd 425 Saw that Tuesday night! Wow. boys playing girls playing
boys. All in the name of historical accuracy. It was some of the most
powerful acting I've seen in a long time.
|
willcome
|
|
response 430 of 560:
|
Nov 24 19:09 UTC 2003 |
whore
|
flem
|
|
response 431 of 560:
|
Nov 24 19:59 UTC 2003 |
re: 12th night: I was at SCA combat practice on Sunday, which is on the
first floor of the Union, in a room whose windows look out past a little
open balcony that one can access from a stairwell. I was standing there
in full armor (which is not very impressive; I don't wear much armor)
talking to someone, when I happened to look out the window and see a
couple of middle-aged men smoking on the balcony, wearing very nice
Elizabethan gowns. Eventually someone went out and talked to them and
found out that they actually were in a play. (This is ironic because
when SCA people wander around in armor and garb and stuff, we always get
asked what play we're in.)
|
other
|
|
response 432 of 560:
|
Nov 24 21:22 UTC 2003 |
Ahh. That explains the patchwork outfit and partial plate mail I
saw someone wearing outside the Union while I was finding parking on
Sunday.
Yes, the acting in this production was exquisite, particularly the
characters Viola/Cesario, Olivia and Feste. This production also
featured the most delicate and precise violation of the fourth wall
I think I've ever seen. It was as if we the audience only existed
in the minds of the characters, so that their playing to us in no
way pulled me out of the story.
|
aruba
|
|
response 433 of 560:
|
Nov 24 22:47 UTC 2003 |
(What's the fourth wall?)
|
slynne
|
|
response 434 of 560:
|
Nov 24 23:12 UTC 2003 |
The wall of the pretend room on stage that is between the audience and
the actors. It is invisable and the actors just pretend there is a wall
there.
|
other
|
|
response 435 of 560:
|
Nov 25 00:08 UTC 2003 |
More accurately, the fourth wall is the conceptual division between
the reality of the play and the reality of the audience. By overt
acknowledgement of the audience, the play is said to break the
fourth wall. The risk in so doing is that the audience may be
brought out of the reality in which the characters live their
stories and back into the world in which the actors play roles on a
stage.
|
beeswing
|
|
response 436 of 560:
|
Nov 25 00:13 UTC 2003 |
An upcoming three days off. Sweet.
|
aruba
|
|
response 437 of 560:
|
Nov 25 01:00 UTC 2003 |
Re 434-435 That's a cool concept. What are the first three walls? :)
|
other
|
|
response 438 of 560:
|
Nov 25 03:19 UTC 2003 |
There aren't any, though I'd guess the reference is to the sides and
back of the stage or set, which comprise three elements of the
play's reality which would be complimented by a fourth wall between
the actors and the audience if that world was real.
|
flem
|
|
response 439 of 560:
|
Nov 25 17:13 UTC 2003 |
The "fourth wall" concept is known with regards to comics too. At least
in the circle of online strips I read, "breaking the fourth wall" is
considered a bit of a cliche, since it often happens as a result of the
author/artist taking a day off, or running out of material, or making
fun of his own material, or some other such self conscious joke.
|
dcat
|
|
response 440 of 560:
|
Nov 27 03:21 UTC 2003 |
Recently got done working on a production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage
and her Children". For those who aren't familiar with Brecht, one of his
favourite ideas was constantly reminding the audience that they're watching
a play, that what's onstage is not reality. We had the back walls & backstage
storage areas lit; we had actors dance and talk amongst themselves during
scene changes, which were filled with various international rap songs. Lots of
fun. Confused lots of people --- but mostly younger: the director said that
older people she'd talked to tended to really like it, but that younger people
tended to be offended by it --- either because it wasn't what they expected
from theatre, or else they thought that the idea was that they couldn't
understand the play without modern rap music. . . .
|
other
|
|
response 441 of 560:
|
Nov 27 05:16 UTC 2003 |
Tonight I found a nearly two-month-old check for services rendered
that I had completely forgotten about in my jacket pocket. Woohoo!
|
willcome
|
|
response 442 of 560:
|
Nov 27 07:27 UTC 2003 |
whore
|
rcurl
|
|
response 443 of 560:
|
Nov 27 19:46 UTC 2003 |
Jerk.
|
scott
|
|
response 444 of 560:
|
Nov 30 20:05 UTC 2003 |
Just got back from Thanksgiving in Chicago; no traffic jams and record time
today.
|
other
|
|
response 445 of 560:
|
Nov 30 20:56 UTC 2003 |
Had a VERY nice night/morning. Just got home. Am more contented
than I've been in years.
|
tpryan
|
|
response 446 of 560:
|
Nov 30 22:57 UTC 2003 |
re 444: leaving at 10am helps, doesn't it?
|
scott
|
|
response 447 of 560:
|
Nov 30 23:36 UTC 2003 |
Re 446: 9am, actually. Even better...
|
beeswing
|
|
response 448 of 560:
|
Dec 1 04:08 UTC 2003 |
Neat weekend with the guy. Mmm hmm.
|
willcome
|
|
response 449 of 560:
|
Dec 1 04:10 UTC 2003 |
DID YOU FUCK HIM?!
|