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5 Angry Men - April 19-21; 26-28
Mar. 19th, 2012 12:48 pmThe first trailer/mockumentary clip for 5 Angry Men - the play I am in this April - has gone live.
The youtube channel is here. More clips will be added over the next few weeks.
Tickets are already on sale online:
They are $14 (plus service charge = 14.32). They will also be sold at the door.
The youtube channel is here. More clips will be added over the next few weeks.
Tickets are already on sale online:
They are $14 (plus service charge = 14.32). They will also be sold at the door.
One show down - seven to go
Oct. 28th, 2010 01:33 amFirst show in the can. Went reasonably well considering some of the circuits blew on the lights.
During the intermission, I retired to the restroom and was confronted upon leaving by one of the spectators.
"You're very angry," was all she said.
I took it as a compliment, given my character in the play.
During the intermission, I retired to the restroom and was confronted upon leaving by one of the spectators.
"You're very angry," was all she said.
I took it as a compliment, given my character in the play.
Hope in Chaos promo
Oct. 27th, 2010 09:57 amHeather put up a youtube promo for Hope in Chaos made from stills and her CKUT interview.
Do More. Be Better. Suck Less.
Oct. 17th, 2010 09:05 pmThe title has become the mantra of our rehearsals.
The next week or so, please excuse me if I go a touch mad, as the play is bearing down on me and there is a great deal of work to do ere it is any position to be seen.
Some of you may have gotten my massive out-of-town email invite, although I would not be surprised if it ended in the spam filters for many of you.
The next week or so, please excuse me if I go a touch mad, as the play is bearing down on me and there is a great deal of work to do ere it is any position to be seen.
Some of you may have gotten my massive out-of-town email invite, although I would not be surprised if it ended in the spam filters for many of you.
Help me, oh neighbors to the South!
Oct. 15th, 2010 09:00 amI need a flag pin. You know, the kind they used to get upset at politicians for not wearing. I also need a flag tie. (Well, any "USA!" tie will do.)
It's for the play, and I realize these are much easier to find in the States than they are here. If anyone can get one for me and ship it up to Montreal, you will be reimbursed.
It's for the play, and I realize these are much easier to find in the States than they are here. If anyone can get one for me and ship it up to Montreal, you will be reimbursed.
Hope in Chaos (Play reminder)
Oct. 14th, 2010 12:39 amI'm in a play! One about 9/11! I'm in the funny bits!
(Seriously, it has funny bits.)
SIMONSMITH THEATRE is proud to present the world premiere production of Hope in Chaos by Heather M. McCuen at the Mainline Theatre this October 2010. Based on McCuen’s experience as a member of a New York State Senate-sponsored Disaster Task Force deep inside the chaos of Ground Zero directly following 9/11, Hope in Chaos recounts the team’s efforts to make sense of what has happened to their city. Then, tracked down by a reporter, Hope reveals her struggle to reconcile her time in Ground Zero with where her life has ended up ten years later.
Ticket information on the Mainline Site.
I'd love to see you there. (Out of towners can negotiate for crash space and I'll see what I can find you.)
(Seriously, it has funny bits.)
SIMONSMITH THEATRE is proud to present the world premiere production of Hope in Chaos by Heather M. McCuen at the Mainline Theatre this October 2010. Based on McCuen’s experience as a member of a New York State Senate-sponsored Disaster Task Force deep inside the chaos of Ground Zero directly following 9/11, Hope in Chaos recounts the team’s efforts to make sense of what has happened to their city. Then, tracked down by a reporter, Hope reveals her struggle to reconcile her time in Ground Zero with where her life has ended up ten years later.
Ticket information on the Mainline Site.
I'd love to see you there. (Out of towners can negotiate for crash space and I'll see what I can find you.)
Shades Of Grey
Oct. 6th, 2010 01:10 amI put some shots up from the play I was involved in at the Fringe this summer.
These were test shots of the makeup and some green screen we were hoping to do something with. (In the end, they just had featureless backgrounds.) As you can see, the idea was that the play was in live action black and white.
(I still think of this as his "Fascist Leader" shot.)
(And this is her "Cruella DeVille" look.)
These were test shots of the makeup and some green screen we were hoping to do something with. (In the end, they just had featureless backgrounds.) As you can see, the idea was that the play was in live action black and white.
(I still think of this as his "Fascist Leader" shot.)
(And this is her "Cruella DeVille" look.)
I got one of those slips of paper that says there was a delivery while I was out. I am all excited.
In other news, some of the gossip I've been missing while madly working and rehearsing has caught up to me.
More interestingly, I have lined up a masseuse, and now only need a chef and a maid. ^_^
In other news, some of the gossip I've been missing while madly working and rehearsing has caught up to me.
More interestingly, I have lined up a masseuse, and now only need a chef and a maid. ^_^
No CTV - meh
Aug. 31st, 2010 11:23 pmCTV did come, in fact, but it is for a segment on the production company that will air next week some time.
I leave you instead with Hipster Shrugged, for those of you who find such things amusing.
I leave you instead with Hipster Shrugged, for those of you who find such things amusing.
Actors are mean
Aug. 25th, 2010 07:48 pmWhile running through the lines at high speed (Italianing, as they say) at rehearsal tonight, the pace was a bit slack because people were acting and not just plowing through lines. I snapped my fingers at the two:
"Faster ladies. No emotion. Just speed."
Another actor shot me a look, "Wow. You must be fun in bed."
"Faster ladies. No emotion. Just speed."
Another actor shot me a look, "Wow. You must be fun in bed."
Stop/Kiss - Sept 1-4
Aug. 24th, 2010 11:49 pmAs some of you already know, I am in a play the first few days of September.
There's a Facebook event page (and if I have you on facebook, you've already been spammed - my apologies)
For the rest of you:
Chrysanthemum Tea Productions presents STOP KISS by Diana Son -
“a poignant and funny play about the ways, both sudden and slow, that lives can change irrevocably,” (Variety).
September 1st - 4th, 8 p.m.
Tickets : $15
...QDF members : $12
Les Ateliers Jean-Brillant
3520 rue St-Jacques (metro Lionel-Groulx)
Montreal, QC
All proceeds from this production will go to support la Fondation FARHA Foundation, which since 1992 has raised more than 8 million dollars for 48 HIV/AIDS organizations across Québec.
http://www.farha.qc.ca/
Directed by Gary Plaxton
CAST
Edith Bolduc .................. Callie
Annie Crowley ............... Sara
Laurent Castellucci ........ George
Marie-Noëlle Dufour ..... Mrs. Winsley / Nurse
Alex Goldrich ................ Peter
Angelo Vernucci ............ Detective Cole
Chrysanthemum Tea Productions is a young non-profit theatre company in Montréal, dedicated to creating strong and probing pieces of theatre, and working toward positive social change in our community.
So that's the play. In the mean time, the rehearsals are kicking my ass, and I don't even have time to do laundry. I need a maid, as I am running out of clothes. (Or, you know, I could finally put up much-ado's Craigslist ad.)
There's a Facebook event page (and if I have you on facebook, you've already been spammed - my apologies)
For the rest of you:
Chrysanthemum Tea Productions presents STOP KISS by Diana Son -
“a poignant and funny play about the ways, both sudden and slow, that lives can change irrevocably,” (Variety).
September 1st - 4th, 8 p.m.
Tickets : $15
...QDF members : $12
Les Ateliers Jean-Brillant
3520 rue St-Jacques (metro Lionel-Groulx)
Montreal, QC
All proceeds from this production will go to support la Fondation FARHA Foundation, which since 1992 has raised more than 8 million dollars for 48 HIV/AIDS organizations across Québec.
http://www.farha.qc.ca/
Directed by Gary Plaxton
CAST
Edith Bolduc .................. Callie
Annie Crowley ............... Sara
Laurent Castellucci ........ George
Marie-Noëlle Dufour ..... Mrs. Winsley / Nurse
Alex Goldrich ................ Peter
Angelo Vernucci ............ Detective Cole
Chrysanthemum Tea Productions is a young non-profit theatre company in Montréal, dedicated to creating strong and probing pieces of theatre, and working toward positive social change in our community.
So that's the play. In the mean time, the rehearsals are kicking my ass, and I don't even have time to do laundry. I need a maid, as I am running out of clothes. (Or, you know, I could finally put up much-ado's Craigslist ad.)
I sometimes imagine this is the conversation I am having with my technology.
The desktop is working, sort of. The 4 beep code meant RAM, not motherboard, and so there was the pulling out and reseating of the RAM. How I managed not to destroy the delicate-seeming chips... I honestly don't know.
That seemed to fix it, except that now the Linux partition won't boot up at all. (Windows Vista is fine.)
On the Vista boot, Firefox and Chrome won't work - IE is fine.
So I have NO idea what is going on with this machine now.
The plan is just to nurse it along for a week or two until I get a paycheque, a credit card, and buy a machine. (Probably something from NCIX so I can customize it but not build it by hand.)
In other news, rehearsals for both plays continue apace and I remain hopeful for good outcomes on both.
The desktop is working, sort of. The 4 beep code meant RAM, not motherboard, and so there was the pulling out and reseating of the RAM. How I managed not to destroy the delicate-seeming chips... I honestly don't know.
That seemed to fix it, except that now the Linux partition won't boot up at all. (Windows Vista is fine.)
On the Vista boot, Firefox and Chrome won't work - IE is fine.
So I have NO idea what is going on with this machine now.
The plan is just to nurse it along for a week or two until I get a paycheque, a credit card, and buy a machine. (Probably something from NCIX so I can customize it but not build it by hand.)
In other news, rehearsals for both plays continue apace and I remain hopeful for good outcomes on both.
Love Stories, Computers, and Beds
Jul. 14th, 2010 10:11 pmI am listening to a woman at the next table in Second Cup describe her whirlwind romance/fling with a beautiful man to her friends. She is speaking in French, and her audience is francophone. However, she keeps slipping into English to describe things he said or did - trying to capture the essence of him in his own language.
It's really quite lovely and sweet.
(She just finished, "Donc, c'etait beau. Je ne regrette rien de ces trois jours. That's my little love story.")
I went to a writer's meet up connected to the Polymancer publishing group I recently came across. A nice mix of people, who all seemed sweet enough. There was the almost obligatory socially-awkward guy with a Modern Fantasy Lord of the Rings novel with a 9,000 word prologue that was incomprehensible.
Oddly, while he bristled at all the criticism he got, he completely accepted my suggestion that if he must introduce a new world, start with something we can actually relate to. (i.e. - The Lord of the Rings starts with a birthday party. The Left Hand of Darkness starts with watching a parade and it's too damn hot in the sun.) You can mention all the differences as things progress, but you've got some way for people to feel familiar.
"At the end of this chapter," (he hadn't read us the whole chapter) "he gets a phone call from an someone telling him his war buddy is dead. Then he goes to the funeral. I could start it there!"
It was actually an amazing reaction, where he had been arguing for why every word of backstory needed to be there up until then, he accepted my suggestion without hesitation.
As for myself, I read an edited version of the Clock story I wrote a few years ago. It went over well, and once again I was told I need to continue that story. Perhaps I shall.
Tomorrow I get the Internet at my place, which will make my life vastly easier and will also mean all you Americans can call my Skype number and not have to pay cross-border charges to talk to me.
The job interview is Friday and I am feeling positive but trying not to jinx it. I got a lead on some freelance work as well, which is only a good thing. In non-paying news, it seems I am now in TWO plays - one at the end of August and the other at the end of October. Those of you looking for an excuse to visit now have more options. (The first sees me playing a woman's casual-sex buddy who becomes uncomfortable with her new relationship with another woman. The second finds me as a bi-polar State senator's aide working with the rescue efforts post 9/11. Up to you which interests you more.)
I definitely think the desktop is also approaching it's end. I would like to just do a replacement job on things to upgrade it if I can. It needs a video card and probably RAM so I can handle the picture load for my photography. I suspect this entails a new case instead of the slim tower.
I may have a line on a free mattress, which would be delightful. I am anxious to use my new wrought-iron bed. I also need to tackle the computer desk problem, and get massive amounts of shelves. (I will probably need a drill.) Something capable of transporting the bookshelves I have coming would also help.
Finally, does anyone have a carpet steam-cleaning professional to recommend?
I really should get one of my more interior design minded friends to come and take a look on how to tackle this space and where I might scatter things on the walls and tell me if the idea of somehow hanging colour since I can't paint is madness or not.
It's really quite lovely and sweet.
(She just finished, "Donc, c'etait beau. Je ne regrette rien de ces trois jours. That's my little love story.")
I went to a writer's meet up connected to the Polymancer publishing group I recently came across. A nice mix of people, who all seemed sweet enough. There was the almost obligatory socially-awkward guy with a Modern Fantasy Lord of the Rings novel with a 9,000 word prologue that was incomprehensible.
Oddly, while he bristled at all the criticism he got, he completely accepted my suggestion that if he must introduce a new world, start with something we can actually relate to. (i.e. - The Lord of the Rings starts with a birthday party. The Left Hand of Darkness starts with watching a parade and it's too damn hot in the sun.) You can mention all the differences as things progress, but you've got some way for people to feel familiar.
"At the end of this chapter," (he hadn't read us the whole chapter) "he gets a phone call from an someone telling him his war buddy is dead. Then he goes to the funeral. I could start it there!"
It was actually an amazing reaction, where he had been arguing for why every word of backstory needed to be there up until then, he accepted my suggestion without hesitation.
As for myself, I read an edited version of the Clock story I wrote a few years ago. It went over well, and once again I was told I need to continue that story. Perhaps I shall.
Tomorrow I get the Internet at my place, which will make my life vastly easier and will also mean all you Americans can call my Skype number and not have to pay cross-border charges to talk to me.
The job interview is Friday and I am feeling positive but trying not to jinx it. I got a lead on some freelance work as well, which is only a good thing. In non-paying news, it seems I am now in TWO plays - one at the end of August and the other at the end of October. Those of you looking for an excuse to visit now have more options. (The first sees me playing a woman's casual-sex buddy who becomes uncomfortable with her new relationship with another woman. The second finds me as a bi-polar State senator's aide working with the rescue efforts post 9/11. Up to you which interests you more.)
I definitely think the desktop is also approaching it's end. I would like to just do a replacement job on things to upgrade it if I can. It needs a video card and probably RAM so I can handle the picture load for my photography. I suspect this entails a new case instead of the slim tower.
I may have a line on a free mattress, which would be delightful. I am anxious to use my new wrought-iron bed. I also need to tackle the computer desk problem, and get massive amounts of shelves. (I will probably need a drill.) Something capable of transporting the bookshelves I have coming would also help.
Finally, does anyone have a carpet steam-cleaning professional to recommend?
I really should get one of my more interior design minded friends to come and take a look on how to tackle this space and where I might scatter things on the walls and tell me if the idea of somehow hanging colour since I can't paint is madness or not.
Monday update
Jul. 12th, 2010 02:01 pmThe Housewarming was ok. I sadly gave people too many options in an attempt to accommodate those with kids-limited schedules. The result was people trickling in two to three at a time and never staying long enough for another group to show up and kick the numbers up into critical mass for a party.
Interview this morning went well, there should be a second interview Wednesday. It's a medical education company, with a multimedia bent. It would be perfectly decent work and the stability will help get me on my feet. So fingers crossed.
A couple of other job options also seem to have opened up.
A Cecil-tastic update will be coming soon, as she has some projects and signings and tea coming up.
The 9/11 play (Hope in Chaos) took a hit as the lead actress quit under mysterious circumstances, but it looks like we will have a solid replacement. The production of Stop Kiss I auditioned for called me back for tomorrow to read again.
I should have the internet hooked up Thursday (I went with Teksavvy) and then I will once again have easier online access and free reign to be called on Skype for those of you who only have free US calls and not cross-border access.
Mattress saleswomen should not be quite so adorable, btw.
Interview this morning went well, there should be a second interview Wednesday. It's a medical education company, with a multimedia bent. It would be perfectly decent work and the stability will help get me on my feet. So fingers crossed.
A couple of other job options also seem to have opened up.
A Cecil-tastic update will be coming soon, as she has some projects and signings and tea coming up.
The 9/11 play (Hope in Chaos) took a hit as the lead actress quit under mysterious circumstances, but it looks like we will have a solid replacement. The production of Stop Kiss I auditioned for called me back for tomorrow to read again.
I should have the internet hooked up Thursday (I went with Teksavvy) and then I will once again have easier online access and free reign to be called on Skype for those of you who only have free US calls and not cross-border access.
Mattress saleswomen should not be quite so adorable, btw.
