Monday, August 26, 2013

What is an Actor?

What is an actor? I confess that I have no idea. Perhaps an actor is only as good as their last audition. Or the one that they're preparing for. An actor needs to love themselves because they cannot depend on anyone else's love even though it's set up for them to receive much adulation by having people see them and applaud. They applause is nice but the next day the actor is at the grocery store like everyone else. What aisle is this in? There is no glamour. There are no press junkets. There is no self importance. There is no vanity. There is love. Not false love.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Okat, I'll try this again. I had started to write a blog then it magically disappeared! I was just doing some wrap up thoughts on The MN Fringe festival which was a personal success but a box office disaster. I had to cancel one show because no one showed up. That was a good exercise in vanity. Oh well. Nobody probably understood the show except me. In fact I had some reviews in which people were confused. I tried to make it as easy to understand but perhaps failed in that endeavor. The show was definitely unusual in its writing and execution which made it fringe worthy. I stand by my vision which paid homage to Plato, Greek Mythology, The Bible, Elvis, Bill Monroe and many others. There may be future productions but have not really figured that out yet.