simple twist of fate

Behind every great man... is the woman who got away.

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I want to write a really long, really great post. But I'm not going to force it... so I guess this will have to do.

But something great/something is coming soon.

SMASH!

From the last post three things can be crossed off and one amplified because I GOT CAST IN SMASH!

What a great feeling. This so exciting, so many emotions going on right now.

So great!

a full, heavy plate

Upcoming acting work to be preparing:


- Charles Bukowski poem "On the Continent"

- A Doll's House scene

- Smash audition

- The Visit scene

- Romeo's "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks..." monologue

- STREETCAR


I believe in a lot of work.

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Note to self:

(Apart from food and things that will help you become a better actor)

Starting now, save all your money that you earn for New York... so that you can be there for more than just a summer.

definitive

I'm going to New York this year. It's gotta happen. It's time.

Firth of Forth Bridge

My character in The Shadow Box is named Brian and he is a dying patient at a hospice care facility. In a scene he speaks of the work he has been writing. Although most of it is said to be quite bad, it is not revealed in the play exactly how bad or possibly good the writing is.

So, it terms of "method acting" I wrote one of the poems he references in the play, which is described as "an epic investigation of the Firth of Forth Bridge."

Here is what I came up with, perhaps there is some redeeming quality in it:

Oh! Where am I going
with these feet that take me?
Across this steel expanse
marveling over the sea
"It is the Firth of Forth"
I hear a voice say.
How did I get here
Why am I this way?
How are you still standing
oh bridge of mine?
How did they fix you
this time?
I want to be fixed, I really do
What is that bright light coming at me, so true?

-B

I know it seems quite "out there" to write a poem about something that is only referenced in the play, but Brian wrote a poem about the Forth Bridge, so I figured I better do the same if I wanted to have any shot at capturing his character. This poem won't be read in the scene, and the paper it is on will only be briefly shown but it is the invisible work you have to do. Acting is an iceberg, only 10% of what you do is shown to the audience, the rest is underneath the surface. And that which is underneath the surface is what sinks all the ships.