From one thing to the next

Oh, I've been meaning to write here for a while now. I got so caught up with making the show last summer that I never had time to write about it.

As I wrote a couple of posts ago, I ended up going with the idea that it was more of an "event" than a play. So we spent considerable energy framing it that way on social media, and I had some friends that helped out with the pre-show. So that was fun.

The venue didn't have wi-fi, so we weren't able to actually do a webinar, but we just presented it as if there was a webinar happening. We had the CEO come out and give his speech, using projections to encourage the audience to applaud at appropriate times (we also had audience plants). We showed some commercials and then eventually the CEO gets hacked. A new CEO takes charge and the event continues.

Most of the piece ended up being straightforward, with the hacking parts moving into abstraction, but there were a couple of other moments too that acted as interruptions, where it wasn't so much a straight plotline but a more slanted way of presenting the material through movement and projections. I was really happy with the final result, but unfortunately I forgot to make a video of the performance. I think Jaime did take video, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to get a copy.

Right now I'm getting ready to do a little piece for Ritz Monday Live Arts in February. I was freaking out about it a little bit because I didn't have an idea, and I was reluctant to visit GoodLife Pharmacomm just because half my cast don't live in town and also I didn't really want to deal with projections.

Yesterday, I came up with the idea of doing a piece about pleasure. That's pretty much all I have right now- just a concept. I have it in my head I'd like to use bubble wrap, but I don't know if that's too cliche. I'm also hoping to draw from Michele Foucault's The Use of Pleasure. I can't find my copy, unfortunately. I know I've bought that book at least twice. Oh well, library ho.