A Perfectionist Endeavor
Posted in Community, General, Personal Hygiene on Apr 29th, 2008
My relationship with William the alcoloon deteriorated in the final days of our play.
He approached me one night in the smelly underground hallway where I was trying to focus my concentration and rehearse my lines before the performance. I tried to ignore him, but he hovered near me for several minutes and finally blurted, [...]
Posted in Community, General, Personal Hygiene on Apr 25th, 2008
I had been foolishly reassured by our director’s promise to keep William the alcoloon corralled in the theater on the second night of our play.
I was warming up my voice in a hallway downstairs when William wandered in and asked if he could join me. I tried to teach him some voice exercises, [...]
Posted in Beauty, Community, General, Personal Hygiene on Apr 24th, 2008
This advice particularly applies to those of us who are acting in a play within the next hour.
At the opening performance of our play, I was searching backstage during the first half for William, the aforementioned wealthy reprobate, to give him a suggestion about one of our scenes together. I had seen [...]