Tech - Show 7

Jaime Roberts (director for show 7) is telling the band something. I can only imagine she's telling them to stop getting stone and stealing people's shit.

There are three camping chairs on the stage. Actors are sitting in those chairs and acting. Two of them are wearing bath robes. There have been lots of bath robes today. I don't know, between the bath robes and the screaming I'm about to lose my freakin' 'It's a Miracle' mind.

Oh lord, please tell me Colleen Robertson is wearing a tuba costume tonight. Awww... shit. No, she's only wearing a dress. Maybe if I slip her a twenty she'll put on the tuba costume again.

The First Read: Monique Does the Math

I've decided to sit in on the first read of play #7: Monique Does the Math written by Elizabeth Heffron, directed by Tammi Doyle, featuring the talents of Angela DiMarco, Colleen Robertson, Michael Katt, Alex Garnett, & Amy Love.

As usual with these first reads at 14/48 the director is switching it up quite a bit, having each actor read for nearly every part. As I write, Tammi and Elizabeth are discussing who they'd like to cast in which role. This is, as Aimee Bruneau told me last festival, the "most important decision" a director will make. This decision is all the more important and all the more challenging at 14/48 where the company of actors for each play are selected randomly.

A real estate agent, a couple of first-time homebuyers, two wall-street big wigs... Angela, Colleen, Michael, Alex, and Amy... who will play what? For the answer, come see Monique Does the Math tonight at 8pm or 10:30pm at the Gregory Falls Theatre at ACT!

VIRGINS

While all of these virgins are at home asleep, dreaming about what their first day of 14/48 is going to present them, I sit awake thinking about my encounters with three of the "pure and innocent" this evening. Encounters which make school boys giggle and grown ups blush... below is what a few VIRGINS had to say before the big dance:

COLLEEN ROBERTSON (ACTOR)
"I'm afraid of nudity. Not really feeling the nudity," Oh brother, you never admit out loud that you don't want to be in the scene with nudity because you're going to then end up in the scene with nudity. Silly virgins... Anyway, I pressed further and asked if having animals onstage might help her with the nudity, "Yes, a flock of sheep that they can't control."

ROB BURGESS (ACTOR)
When asked how he felt about nudity, Rob said, "Prosthetics." Hmmm... interesting. Probably easier to accomodate than the flock of sheep.

SHAWNMARIE STANTON (BAND)
I missed my window of oppurtunity to ask her about how she felt about nudity, since this was quickly becoming the theme, but she told me which instruments she may be playing... "Harp, flute, saxophone and vocals."

Thank you to these VIRGINS for giving me a few minutes because that's all I really need.