My friend's (well, close family friend really) play got a pretty great review in Variety!
― DRUNK SWEDISH CHINTZ (Upt0eleven), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Wasn't quite as enthusiastic about it as this reviewer was - it's definitely got a few wholes that I hope will get patched up before it gets, as I'm fairly sure it will, a transfer to a bigger space - but was thoroughly entertained all the same.
Kinda interesting to see H4nna directing something with such a populist, contemporay feel given that her background is more Harold Barker, Pinter, Stoppard and the RSC, but really really impressive how well she pulled it off.
Sry if this seems a bit spammy, just really pleased!
― DRUNK SWEDISH CHINTZ (Upt0eleven), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
aw, my friend's play is a winner!http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/theater/81553/the-ten-best-plays-in-chicago-in-2009
― tehresa, Friday, 18 December 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
so proud!wish i could have seen it.
my most recent set design, forgive the indulgence!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/memcell1.jpg
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― jed_, Friday, 15 January 2010 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
there were people in it too!
― jed_, Friday, 15 January 2010 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
what was the show?
― tehresa, Friday, 15 January 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"Memory Cells" - a new play by a scottish writer called Louise Welsh. Her starting point was one of Louise Bourgeuis' Cells, hence the heavily LB influenced set.
― jed_, Friday, 15 January 2010 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice. Last play I saw was Pains of Youth at the National last month, the music was kinda interestingly early 20th century inspired classical-electronic interludes in between the scenes. It had a suicide, but that is no spoiler as you could tell five mins in :-)
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 15 January 2010 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Katie Mitchell's thing? i really wanted to see that. there's something - a video - on the guardian website about the sound design for it. it looked really interesting.
― jed_, Friday, 15 January 2010 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
memory cells was good as ws the set design
I've seen that doors-as-wall in a couple of places now, ur a pioneer jed! unless u stole it from elsewhere
― cozwn, Friday, 15 January 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i stole it from louise bourgeois!
― jed_, Friday, 15 January 2010 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
jed - Yeah, that's it. For anybody else, the link to the page at the Guardian site.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 January 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i've been working on a theatrical clowning show and it's pretty impossible to convince people to go, but i saw it last night and it was incredibly entertaining and actually quite touching at times! one of the clowns did an entire piece in japanese and was able to convey everything perfectly, which is pretty freaking impressive to me!
― tehresa, Saturday, 16 January 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Non-circus clowns are the best.
Intriguing B'way cast for the new Martin McDonagh play (movie stars, of course): Walken, Sam Rockwell, Anthony Mackie, Zoe Kazan.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 January 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
well, even if no one i know personally would go, we sold out last night! also makes me wish i had more $ to go see more shows. i miss theatre/opera/etc.
― tehresa, Sunday, 17 January 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Does anyone if/when Tom Paulin's Medea might be coming to London?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 26 February 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
no, but it's in glasgow in a couple of weeks so thanks for the tip!
― jed_, Saturday, 27 February 2010 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
one star from lynn gardner in the guardian, maybe not...
― jed_, Saturday, 27 February 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Which theatre crtics do you trust, innit? I liked the readings I heard of it on Night Waves.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 27 February 2010 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone see The White Guard at the NT? Was impressed about how funny it was. Only till the end it emphasized how nasty the whole deal was.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 30 April 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
hey chilxors, my grad school colleague's play is being staged in this victory gardens season preview. it's free. you should check it out and tell me how it is!― tehresa, Friday, September 11, 2009 9:09 PM
― tehresa, Friday, September 11, 2009 9:09 PM
y'allllll! dude got a pulitzer nom for this and it's off-broadway now! <3
― tehresa, Friday, 30 April 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
don't think it was just the end - there was the end of act 1 bit about fighting against the future which was pretty bleak (and wrongheaded); and acts 3 and 4 were both pretty harsh. but yeah, funny and entertaining too, and amazing set design, the act 1-2 transition really took me by surprise.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Friday, 30 April 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
tza, what title?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 May 2010 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
the elaborate entrance of chad deity
― tehresa, Saturday, 1 May 2010 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
That bit in act 1 was v much prophetic. Really liked it. The fears it expressed are analogous to many writers (whether progressive or not) welcoming (but also showing anxious concerns) about what that future would bring.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 May 2010 09:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Just saw Reasons To Be Pretty by Neil LaBute. A bit heavy-handed in the first act, but hit the spot for me in the second. The actors looked so little like their pics in the programme that my friend initially claimed the whole thing was understudies because it was a matinee.
― ljubljana, Monday, 3 May 2010 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I think labute's photo would come up on a gis for 'heavy-handed'.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw the National Theatre's production of 'The White Guard' by Bulgakov the weekend before last. It was excellent.
― If the US had a dictator we'd call him coach (Michael White), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Last week on the train I sat near a couple who just came back from a performance. They seemed confused by all the factions. I had one or two (minor) questions myself but the programme (which I didn't get hold of) should be able to answer them.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
The program was exhaustive, if anything. The factions were essentially:
The Hetmanate, a German propped-up, conservative distatorship under Skoropadsky who antagonized the peasantry and increasingly relied on Russians and was close to Deniken;
Petlyura's Ukrainian peasantry-supported Ukrainian National Republic (which had essentially preceded the Hetmanate) and which expelled Skoropadsky;
The Ukrainian and Russian Bolsheviks who, by the end, everybody figures will end up the final victors.
― If the US had a dictator we'd call him coach (Michael White), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Btw, fun book:
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Prince-Secret-Habsburg-Archduke/dp/0465002374
― If the US had a dictator we'd call him coach (Michael White), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I had planned to retire from theatrical projects for the year, but as of last night joined the cast of a local production of The Crucible as Hathorne. It was already in progress and it opens next Friday. I get to learn 20-30 lines really fast! But I'm a quick memorizer.
It's like getting to skip right to the fun part!
― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Friday, 10 September 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice! I played Cheever in high school and spied a poppet.
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Friday, 10 September 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
hey chilxors, my grad school colleague's play is being staged in this victory gardens season preview. it's free. you should check it out and tell me how it is!
Oh, that dude's a good writer! Saw another play of his in Chicago earlier this year.
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Friday, 10 September 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
oh cool, which one?
― tehresa, Saturday, 11 September 2010 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Welcome to Arroyo's. The thing I liked the most about it was that, versus being about hip-hop, it really was able to embody hip-hop in language, storytelling, etc.
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Saturday, 11 September 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
learned 70% of my lines in one night and didn't do too horribly bad on the blocking. the one benefit of being a good memorizer is that you can do things like this.
now to do things like creating a character and learning the rest of my lines in a day or two. oh and also one of our castmates went to the hospital with chest pains last night :(.
― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Saturday, 11 September 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
opening night tonight. learned all of my lines in two nights, I'm ready to go...w00t
― turn in yer badge (San Te), Friday, 17 September 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
break a leg!
― jed_, Friday, 17 September 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Eazy and I just had a good chat over beer about the latest Steppenwolf production.
― jaymc, Friday, 17 September 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I am definitely seeing a play tonight about robot sex.
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Friday, 17 September 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
wd like to see NYC revival of Angels in America if it didnt, uh, cost money
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 September 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Good opening tonite I'm in the bag atm
― turn in yer badge (San Te), Saturday, 18 September 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
three reviews in for my show, all positive. that has to be a first!
whoever knew wearing a big hot wig would be so much fun?
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Our Rebecca Nurse didn't show tonight. I'm backstage right now, nobody knows where she is, we worked around her lines. This is the SECOND time this has happened in a show I've been in during the last year. We're all worried atm...but the show goes on.
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Sunday, 3 October 2010 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Have you ever seen that play where its all naked women strutting about? But no talking. It was very artsy. I felt kind of ashamed of people's "outer body parts".
― Latham Green, Sunday, 3 October 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
castmate showed up at intermission, distraught. didn't find out the cause, we were just all relieved as she has a heart condition. worked around her not being there in the first act.
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Sunday, 3 October 2010 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Panic Patterns @ The Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.
i have to say i'm really quite proud of this design so please forgive the indulgence. the show happens in the round, just over 100 seats. there are people in it but they aren't in the photos (too messy!)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/pp28-1.jpg?t=1288308488
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/pp25.jpg
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― jed_, Thursday, 28 October 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Just seeing these photos now -- nice ^.
I'm restaging a show I did last summer, opening next weekend, in case anyone is passing through Chicago.
― the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses (Eazy), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link