Entries tagged with directing

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A beautiful day in the neighborhood

Spring has sprung. The trees are budding--beautiful pinks and whites. The forsythia are amazingly golden. Our daffodils are in bloom. Spring and autumn have such amazing color here. We've opened the windows to breezes through the house. We've got a chipmunk or two that uses our back porch as a shortcut. It's just amazingly contenting to find a comfortable spot in the house and just be.

( The Good Friday play )

I'm going to DC tonight with a local drama reviewer. She has an extra ticket to a show, and she offered it to me. Free ticket, transportation, press night, and noshes. Why not?

( St. Patrick's Day Toads )

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In like a lamb

( General catch-up )

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Current Location: home from work - on the couch

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Directorial stuffs

Well, as I've been talking about, I directed (and performed in) my church's Good Friday play this year. I've directed it before, about 15 years ago. It's one of my favorites. It's called "Mountaintop," by Bob Hughes, if you're interested in looking it up.

( Church plays are always an interesting experience )

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First with the acting. Now with the directing.

So, y'all know I've written several times and somewhat extensively about how Jensen is my current source of thespic inspiration when I'm practicing a role. Well, now I keep hearing his advice about directing.

See, I'm directing a one-act play, Mountaintop, for Good Friday service. Now, I've directed this play before, years and years ago . . . about 16 years ago, actually. Geo and I were engaged at the time. And thankfully I've still got my script with a few notations in it. But it's been a long time since I've directed anything on my own on this scale, and as I'm going through the script again, I keep hearing Jensen's advice (as passed on to him by the late Kim Manners) that the most important thing for a director to do is do your homework. Be prepared. I know this is key to being a good director. Be confident in what you're doing and in the choices you're making, and be prepared. And when Jensen said this about his first directing gig, I agreed with him wholeheartedly.

I just find it really amusing that he's in the back of my mind as I'm putting my production notes together.

Also, I'm very keen on playing a role in this play. Which means I'll be directing myself. Which is something I've done before on solo stuff, but not something I've done before in a full-scale play I'm directing. So . . . that should be interesting.