Yeah, I realize I’ve been horrible in keeping up with this blog. Mostly because I’ve been busy.
Busy with what you may ask?
Why the theatre of course!
The other thing that has been keeping me from blogging is that I don’t feel like I have much of a focus for this blog. However, I saw that one of my dear friends and co-president of the theatre company that I created (Story of that forthcoming) created a blog called “Under the Blues” which I will add to my blogroll. Under the Blues is a reference to the lights one uses to work backstage on a production. Blue lights make it so that the stage crew can move around set without the audience seeing much. Her blog made me think “Hey, why aren’t you blogging about this shit too?”
So, I guess I better start at the beginning. Ismene.
Last year, right after the big storm that knocked out our power for a week, a few friends and I sat around drinking wine one night and talked about how we would love it if there were a theatre company that did more than what the local companies were doing.
In the area, there are two colleges that do theatre, as well as a slew of local companies, but each has their own problems. Notably, we wanted a company that would be willing to do the classics, and edgier pieces. Not only that, we wanted to make sure that everyone had a chance to take part in it – not just an elitist group of people.
With wild ideas in hand, we formed the Three Graces.
Our first production was Ismene, which is a locally written play that continues the Oedipus cycle originally written by Sophocles. It deals with Oedipus’ youngest child, Ismene, and what happens to her after the story of Antigone is over.
We cast it, ran it, and performed it with our own heaps of problems, but above all, we learned from it.
Because of that, I want to keep this blog. Partially as a reminder to myself of what has been done, and what I could do better, and partially as a tool to beginning actors, directors, and theatre companies on what to do, and more importantly what NOT to do. Because I make mistakes. A lot of mistakes.
