A Story Now Ours
Before this month I had never done an immersive show. Due to the aggressive repeat players at more popular productions I am honestly turned off of going to most immersive shows. But immersive theatre has been a consistent presence in our home since my wife Megan’s exposure to that world with Sleep No More in 2011. She dove deeply into the form and is a published expert.
An Unexpected Party
No matter how scared you may be some times you have to simply accept that there isn’t a good counter argument and you need to make something.
I Believe I have Developed Another Theory
I believe that the best performances come from measured and calibrated dynamics.Playing each scene at a energy/intensity of 10 and then at a 1, setting the possibilities, and then the team makes the decision for where one plays the final product from there.Or in a show like the Collyer Brothers - what Langley's arc looks like.
You are not wood, you are not stones.
One of the evergreen topics on the rotating menu that theatre blogs cycle through is the "fight" between professional theatremakers and community theatre makers. This is of course a radical narrative distillation of a more nuanced relationship.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you
Live performance is a system of interlocking skills honed individually and together over time like any other muscle-building, and then deployed all at once. It is almost always desired that the edges of that displayed set of skills are folded under and invisible to the uninitiated, and, on the highest level, even to fellow initiates. So as one progresses, craft becomes more and more opaque. The skilled stop understanding how and why they do it and the very best seem to require no effort at all.
Dancing With Myself
I’m almost as busy as you are. In that rush of “on to the next thing” I currently get most of my news on the fly from my Twitter and Facebook feeds. On a quick scroll through Twitter I caught my friend Reina Hardy crowing about her pending crossing of the border for something called Monologues for Nobody. I chased it down through a few links, saw that this was a Toronto Fringe project curated/commissioned by longtime #2amt contributor Jordan Mechano, read just a little about it and got excited to share this project more broadly. I asked Mechano a batch of questions I had about Monologues for Nobody and I hope you enjoy his answers as much as I did.