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21920. Ms. No - 6/8/2007 4:44:46 AM Seamus! It's wonderful to see you but I second Arky in that I'm sorry you're down. 21921. Ms. No - 6/8/2007 4:54:37 AM Arx, Jude,
What are the plans for the weekend? I want to pretend I'm there. Actually I'll be at the theater all weekend in rehearsal which I'm having a great time with.
I don't know why I'm so surprised. I think it's because I'd been away for so long and also because it's a tough play. Plus, there's a big love scene and that had me doing a minor freak out until we got the kissing out of the way.
It's a small cast - four people - and the director is a friend I've known for something like sixteen years, so it's a pretty comfortable atmosphere even though I didn't know any of the other actors before this show.
There isn't any driving need at the moment to step fully back into the world of theater, but I'm definitely enjoying this experience and it's lead me to the conclusion that I'm probably not done with the stage for the rest of my life. 21922. judithathome - 6/8/2007 2:28:19 PM MsNo, I really wish you could come that weekend...plans are to go to a play called Nice People Dancin' To Good Country Music...sorta like the antithesis of the karoke experience (or at least parts of it!)
I'm excited for Arky to see this theatre group...we'll be using a new venue for the summer, going from a small black box theatre to a full sized, fully professional one...in this play, they're going to be able to put a REAL pickup truck on stange rather than use two boxes and a headlight...ha!
The rest of the weekend is up for grabs...may just laze around or go to the pool and laze around there. 21923. Seamus - 6/8/2007 3:05:29 PM arky & Ms. No, thank you. It is wonderful to see each of you again!
Although it is effectively what I did say, I truly didn't mean that I need to be low to want to come here--and I will gladly remain.
Each of those plays--the play you are rehearsing for, Ms. No, and the play you and arky are planning to attend, judith--seems intriguing.
How does one "practise" a love scene, Ms. No? I've often wondered how that works. 21924. Ms. No - 6/8/2007 3:35:53 PM Pretty much the way one rehearses the rest of the show, but with allowances made for the fact that it's most likely going to be awkward for the actors. Now that I think about it, it's not that different from the way one rehearses for tough physical blocking --- slaps, stage fights, stunts, disrobing.
The first two nights we did the scene we didn't have to kiss but we did work on getting physically comfortable with each other -- sitting close, holding hands, cuddling up and generally just lounging around the bed together. Here, I have to really be grateful to the man I'm playing opposite because whether through design or through osmosis, he made me feel very comfortable. He wasn't shy or embarrassed or hesitant and so I didn't have any need to be.
I'd never had to do a kiss much less a love scene with someone I didn't know beforehand. I mean, Tom and I met on the first night of rehearsal, we rehearsed our scenes together with the director the next two nights and then I was off a couple days while he worked with another actor and then we met back up for what was essentially our third night of rehearsal together and had to start working the kissing parts.
So the first couple of times it feels like a kiss. Sure, it's a relative stranger and you may or may not be attracted to this person and you've been chewing gum since noon and avoiding frangrant foods since yesterday, but it's still a kiss. And somewhere not too long after because you have a lot of other stuff to concentrate on -- how long does this kiss last before we have to speak again? Who's got the next line and what is it? What are the characters thinking about while they're kissing that leads them to stop kissing and start talking again? Where on the bed are we supposed to be moving to? Who's supposed to end up on top or on which side or close to the foot of the bed? ---it pretty quickly becomes a piece of blocking like any other.
This is not to say that it isn't entertaining, but it isn't real kissing. You don't lose yourself in it. I can only imagine how horrid it would be to have to kiss someone you disliked or who had bad oral hygiene or who pushed the envelope between "acting" kissing and truly lustful kissing. We're not actually exchanging a whole lot of spit -- it looks far more carnal than it is, but that's why they call it acting. ;->
21925. thoughtful - 6/8/2007 4:02:59 PM my understanding is that acting kissing isnt kissing at all but merely pressing lips together in a way to simulate kissing...no need to pucker or anything else...just make it look good for the audience.
didnt they say that clark gable had terrible breath? 21926. thoughtful - 6/8/2007 4:03:09 PM hi seamus! 21927. Seamus - 6/8/2007 4:03:52 PM Fascinating. Seems it is a play within a play.
Were I an actor (if the subjunctive mood didn't exist, it would have had to be invented for that impossibility), I want to believe that I would show up for rehearsals having paid at least some small attention to my oral hygiene. But having that go to thinking about what I ate the day before...hmmm. I can't say I'd have ever thought of that. Then again, there may be a metaphor for my life in there somewhere.
Wow, Ms. No! Acting is hard work! And here I thought it all started when the director said "Action!"
That was a poor attempt at humour. I know it is much much more than that.
How many lines do you have? And how does that compare to, perhaps, an average?
Thank you, Ms. No, for explaining it so well. I truly hadn't a clue. 21928. Seamus - 6/8/2007 4:05:48 PM Hello, thoughtful! 21929. betty - 6/8/2007 4:38:31 PM "I'd never had to do a kiss much less a love scene with someone I didn't know beforehand."
there are so many slutty comments I could put here. 21930. Ms. No - 6/8/2007 4:51:18 PM T'ful,
To a great degree that will depend on the actors and the venue -- and never forget that the director has final say on the vison. In a huge venue nobody could even see whether or not the actors were masking. In smaller venues you have to be more precise and things get a lot more real. You can't fake much in a hundred-seat house. 21931. Ms. No - 6/8/2007 5:10:37 PM Seamus,
This is a bit of a departure for me in that I've generally played supporting and character roles rather than romantic leads. The only person in the show with more lines than me is Tom and he's in every scene of the play. It's not an incredibly long play, however, so I've probably learned as many or more lines before, but it's been so long I really can't remember. Mostly what's different is the type of role. 21932. Ms. No - 6/8/2007 5:12:50 PM Ah, Betty, you know me well. And, truly, you are a model of restraint. ;-> 21933. Seamus - 6/8/2007 7:01:07 PM Hello, betty--it's good to see you again. Congratulations on obtaining that diploma! 21934. betty - 6/8/2007 8:45:01 PM Thank you Seamus. Glad to see you around. 21935. anomie - 6/9/2007 3:28:21 AM Ms. No,
Congrats on the play. I knew you sang but I didn't realize you were a thespian as well.
Where in Sacto will it be? 21936. concerned - 6/9/2007 4:06:59 AM This morning when I went out to go to work, I got a surprise. My Southern Magnolia managed to grow a flower. Considering that it's barely knee high to a political centrist and growing about three climate zones north of its natural habitat, that's something rather out of the ordinary. I'll have to take some photographs of it, and maybe find a way to post them on the Mote. 21937. Ms. No - 6/9/2007 4:27:13 PM Hi Anomie!
We're at Capital Stage --- that's the one on the Delta King river boat if you're familiar with Sacto and its theaters. They won Best of Sacramento last year for professional theater.
21938. Ms. No - 6/9/2007 4:27:39 PM Congratulations, Concerned. That's quite a feat! 21939. anomie - 6/10/2007 4:15:40 AM Ms. No,
Please let us know the dates. Not much chance I'll be in the area, but you never know.
If the boat hasn't moved in the past few years, then yes, I know the area. I lived on Watt Ave in 78 and 79.
Break a leg.
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