Huzzah! I have a cast member for The Foreigner!
I know. . . A cast member. A cast member? But believe me, in a tiny little town that hasn't produced a play in god knows how long, on a play that none of them have heard of. . . A cast member on the first night of Auditions is a good thing. And she's good. This bodes well. I've always said that I don't need a lot of people to audition, I just need the right people to audition.
In other news. .. well, I'm not sure there is other news. Or there's too much to be borne.
The STAA conference was FAB-U-LOUS. I got so much out of that, I can't even begin. We'll see how it goes over with the WSF group. I'll be playing with a few techniques I learned at Shakespeare and Co with the cast of the Julius Caesar reading on Wednesday night. I'm looking forward to the experimentation.
Mom is okay. I think she's a little lonely with me working so much, but on the other hand, my borother has had to spend more time with her in the last few weeks, so that's good. He's in his own overwhelming life right now and I hate asking him for too much help, but in some ways it may be good for him to have a break from his life for a few hours.
And I have to say that the week I was in Massachussetts, my brother took care of my mom really, rather well. And then he was exceptionally helpful during a family crisis from which I was thankfully absent. He's always good in a crisis, though, my brother. (Of course, he's a cop, so I would hope he's good in a crisis. He has that whole "white knight" thing going on in his psyche, after all.)
These days, though, I eat, sleep, and breathe theatre. I've worked every single day on something theatre related for the past two months. It hasn't gotten oppressive yet. Not all of it is fun or stimulating, but most of it is and that's a lot to get out of a job, eh? I think the best and worst is yet to come as I approach actual production at WSF and Selma.
I have to figure out if I can make it down to Bakersfield on Friday to see "Modern Millie". We'll see.
Sorry for how disjointed this entry is. I've actually had a lot of blog-worthy thoughts lately, but they just don't come up when I'm actually AT the blog. Bastard Blog Thoughts!
