Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Casting success!!

So casting has come and gone.  I must say, I am very excited for future rehearsals!!!

My cast and crew is a collection of people that have not only blown me away in auditions, but are also old friends that I have worked with and have been great partners in previous projects.  I'll hold off names for now, but I will announce my fantastic Stage Manager, Allye Vice.  She is a writer herself, director, stage manager and has toured with other Fringe shows.  We worked together in productions in University, and I am thrilled to have her by my side again.  She knows how I work and I know how she works, and I am so excited to have someone strong enough to deal with my chaos and create this show!!

We have already done our first read-through this previous weekend, and official rehearsals start this week.  This will be my first show focusing on monologues, not so much dialogue and character interaction.  This is making me realize the amount of work I have made for myself, but I am excited for my cast and crew, who are excited too, and beyond supportive of the process.  They are even helping me with the script (which I asked for!) and helping me workshop certain scenes that need it.

Already I have so much support. From my cast, my SM, my friends, family, even strangers.

Last week I sat down with a guest at work for a beer (they bought me one, so I joined them for a drink haha) and I started talking about the show. He was so excited about it, and he never even met me before. But his incredible enthusiasm about my 20 second blurb blew me away. He was excited. He was excited about me, and about what I've done.  He hasn't even seen it, and He was beyond enthusiastic.  Having a stranger excited for me was amazing. Having support from strangers is the most terrifying and wonderful thing I've experienced so far.

This is getting big.  This is becoming real.  And I couldn't be more excited.

-janeovision

Friday, May 4, 2012

My drunk... Blog?

So, long time.

What have I been up to, you ask? Oh, not much. Working, moving, writing a play. Y'know. The usual.

Yup. I have written a play. All those drunken adventures myself, my friends and complete strangers have been on have now been compiled into a 60-ish minute play. All your drunken stories of hookups, screwups, mishaps and adventures have been collected by me and put into theatrical form!!

I started this adventure last summer, writing a scene or two while drinking in the park with friends. I wasn't necessarily planning on making anything big, just wanted to kill some time now that my fringe fest show last year had wrapped up. As I was writing, I kind of liked what I was getting on paper. That's surprising, as my writing is usually crap,, or so said every single one of my profs in university.

So I applied to fringe with a barely written play, with hopes of maybe I'll get in and have something to do. November 28 rolled around and I got the email. I got in.

Well crap. Now I have to write a play.

Since then, I've even collecting stories and putting them on paper. Documenting nights out and the scandals that came with the drink.

4 months later, and a play is written. I have a play that makes sense, and might actually be pretty good!

Today I found out my venue, cast my show, and begin the chaos of putting up a show for the fringe. I'll be using my blog as my venting pad for it, as well as keeping you updated to the happenings of the play and how it's progressing (or not, we'll see lol)

So I have a play. It's a drunk play. It's called, 'My Drunk Play'. Let's see how this pans out.

-janeovision


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