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i just found out my first and dearest theatre teacher/director is coming to L&E. this is phenomenally important to me, and i almost cried when i heard she'd made reservations. she's getting on in years and has been under the yoke of varied surgeries and downsizing from the farm she shares with her husband to a more manageable home. she's always meant to come up to the cities and see something i'm doing here, but heath and home often keep her from it.
and here she is, coming to L&E. of all shows.
L&E is steeped in commedia tradition. every stop i am pulling out, every trick and twirl is based in my commedia training...which i really don't get to use often enough. i have always loved commedia, and i will always long for it.
because it was the first form of theatre i ever knew.
i started at the masque in 1990. the first character i played onstage was a columbina puppet in a dell'arte theatre that pinocchio gets enslaved to. i took every mime and movement class that the masque had to offer, and within a year i was part of the mime troupe, where we built ensemble pieces that used mime and voice (like a fringe company here i might name) and were steeped in japanese storytelling style, french (marceau and lecoq) technique, and full on commedia. we layered commedia onto our comic mainstage characters, we combined commedia mask work with our mime pieces. this stuff nearly replaced my DNA. it was the only basis of theatre i'd ever known until college came and offered all that confusing stanislofsky stuff to which i never really warmed.
anyway. she was my guide to all of that, and she was my theatre guru. without her, i wouldn't be who and what i am today. she's a wacky lady, and still one of my adored role models. to know that the first thing she will see me do in almost 20 years is the very best of the technique SHE taught me? well. obviously i am a little emotional.
ye gods, i hope i make her proud.
and here she is, coming to L&E. of all shows.
L&E is steeped in commedia tradition. every stop i am pulling out, every trick and twirl is based in my commedia training...which i really don't get to use often enough. i have always loved commedia, and i will always long for it.
because it was the first form of theatre i ever knew.
i started at the masque in 1990. the first character i played onstage was a columbina puppet in a dell'arte theatre that pinocchio gets enslaved to. i took every mime and movement class that the masque had to offer, and within a year i was part of the mime troupe, where we built ensemble pieces that used mime and voice (like a fringe company here i might name) and were steeped in japanese storytelling style, french (marceau and lecoq) technique, and full on commedia. we layered commedia onto our comic mainstage characters, we combined commedia mask work with our mime pieces. this stuff nearly replaced my DNA. it was the only basis of theatre i'd ever known until college came and offered all that confusing stanislofsky stuff to which i never really warmed.
anyway. she was my guide to all of that, and she was my theatre guru. without her, i wouldn't be who and what i am today. she's a wacky lady, and still one of my adored role models. to know that the first thing she will see me do in almost 20 years is the very best of the technique SHE taught me? well. obviously i am a little emotional.
ye gods, i hope i make her proud.
