Tonight is our last rehearsal for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Tomorrow is meant to be, but seeing as it's an open dress rehearsal and people are being invited to wander in off the street, I don't really feel it qualifies.
Things have come together staggeringly well.
Well.
Considering that I'm still struggling to make my one eight-line monologue come out right, the fact that there are a bunch of exceptionally talented people delivering all the other lines in the play is certainly more the cause of everything coming together than any application so far on my part.
The best thing I do is fall over in a spectacular manner, and I haven't done it the same way twice in all our rehearsals. Considering that some of our shows are going to be staged on concrete, this is going to need some reconsideration.
Maybe I should do it anyway?
Enough!
The shows are as follows:
Saturday, July 23, 12 PM
Von King Cultural Center Amphitheatre
670 Lafayette Avenue, between Marcy and Tompkins Avenue.
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
G train to the Bedford/Nostrand stop. Walk east on Lafayette Avenue to
Marcy.
Sunday, July 24, 2 PM
Maria Hernandez Park
Knickerbocker to Irving Aves, Starr to Suydam streets
Bushwick, Brooklyn
L train to Jefferson Street stop. Walk two blocks on Wyckoff Avenue to
Starr Street and two blocks South to Irving Avenue.
Saturday, July 30, 12:30 PM
New Lots Library
665 New Lots Avenue at Barbey St.
Brownsville, Brooklyn
3 train to New Lots/Livonia Avenue stop. Walk along New Lots Avenue 4
blocks to Barbey Street.
Sunday, July 31, 4 PM
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
499 Van Brunt Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn
F train to Jay St / Boro Hall, then B61 to Van Brunt or
G train to Smith/9th Street, then B77 bus to Van Dyke and Van Brunt.
Come and see Krissa as an old Greek ya-ya! And as a flitty sarcastic fairy! And me as...(myself for the most part) Snout The Tinker, taking snarky shakespearean comments to new depths, standing on stage in an epic piece of grey t-shirt material, cunningly disguised as a wall!
Plus, I fall over*.
*Falling over is concrete dependent.
Oooh, merde! (good luck for thespians)
And don't say thank you.
Okay.
Leg breaks. I am directing Macbeth this year, so if this works, come on down to North Carolina. We will pad the stage.
Why, thank you Simon. I think Macbeth is the play I know the best, but I've never been in it.
I had enough trouble with scratches and injuries while playing Mark Anthony at the age of 12, so feck knows what sort of damage could occur with a really serious tragedy.