In The Beginnings

As you can tell, loyal blog readers, there has not been much happening in my theatre life worth blogging about in 2018 thus far. Though i did participate in a 24-hour theatre fest back in February once again, I did so as a writer again.

I could have mentioned it here, I suppose, but I got to thinking that when a piece is brand new, and the name of the game is chaos for something like that, (and there was plenty of that believe me) it can be tricky to write an overview of the experience that people outside of the process can relate to.

I suppose I could have provide a sort of running commentary on the experience...almost in real time, that sort of thing. To be honest, that's an idea that didn't come to me until I sat down here to write this blog post. I may have to write myself a note of some kind to keep that in mind for next year if I do it again. It's more like a Twitter thing, but I can do it here as well.

Funny how an idea came about as a result of my explaining why I did not write anything.

On to more current, news however.

In the previous entry, (which was belated, as you can tell if you read it) I mentioned the staged reading of T'Was the Night Before Christmas. Coming up in May many of the same people will be involved in what we hope will be a regular event throughout the year. The group, (which we have since dubbed the Fireside Story Weavers) will be putting on narrated (by me) performance of different stories a few times a year, with the actors acting out the scenes being narrated, just like at Christmas.

Our next production is coming up in May. We'll be telling and performing short adaptations of several different creation stories from various cultures and religious schools. We're calling it, "In the Beginnings: Stories of Creation from Around the World."

We still need to cast this. In fact we are having an informal meeting this weekend at the Black Box Arts Center to recruit, audition, share information about what we expect this production to be. For example, we expect a week of rehearsals at most. Perfect for people who are interested in shows but have no time commitment, or no faith in their ability to memorize lines, as I will be reading them all next to a lovely fake fireplace, as I did at Christmas.

We have a Facebook page. If you are in the area, and think you might be interested, or just want to learn more, stop by and give us a like. We would certainly appreciate it!

More information on this brief adventure as time goes on.