I'm on a big Tennessee Williams kick right now. in the last week i have read 'streetcar' 'summer in smoke' and half of 'cat on a hot tin roof'. i think its the heat. the sweltering air that seems to cyclone around the city, trapping it all in. i feel like i should be in the south, drinking a mint julep on an old rusted wrap around patio. my scene partner suggested i do blanche in streetcar for our upcoming scene. i have to admit i was a bit offended. first off, im way to young to play blanche, i mean shes a fascinating charachter whom i would someday aspire to portray, but at 19 i really dont think i could pull it off. one of the main aspects of her is that shes terrified of her aging face! lets pray im not getting wrinkles yet!
i've also been reading a lot of shanley lately. i just finished a scene with clare (who was AMAZING as savage) from savage in limbo. personally i felt like i didnt have enough time, or truthfully enough stimuli to portray linda how she deserved to be played. both charachter contridict yet compliment each other so beautifully. clare had savage down to a t. and its so frusterating for me to think that linda was underdeveloped. but whats done is done and hopefully in the future i can come back and work on her more. i just finished danny in the deep blue sea and women of manhattan as well, WOM ive worked on already, so im not about to embrace DDBS. shanley's fun but i need to branch out.
as for non-plays (i dont think thats correct grammer but oh well) besides reading dolores (which im kind of sensing is written by shanley as well, although i cant say for sure because i just have copied pages w/ no author name!!!) and the only game in town, im re-reading one of my all time favorite campy classics, valley of the dolls. chic lit at its finest! can you ask for a better beach read?! melodrama, melt downs, over the top phrases, and the 60's! i think not. im also begining 'the power of now', which my friend saskia swears totally changed her life. (btw this was before paris was photographed with it!!) the first few pages didnt draw me in the way they are supposed to, but then again, it is non fiction and deeply spiritual. speaking of spiritual books, i was walking by the strand the other day and picked up a book titled 'tibetan buddhism'. one dollar! in no way am i suggesting everyone convert to buddhism, but i do think its concept is universally appealing, and people would benefit by at least learning about it. i dont know much about it, seeing as how i just got the book, but i believe it differs from christianity in that people are not made to feel guilty or wrong by thier "sins." on a lighter note, i was given a copy of the NY times bestseller, a thousand splendid suns, which i am eager to begin!
i've also been reading a lot of shanley lately. i just finished a scene with clare (who was AMAZING as savage) from savage in limbo. personally i felt like i didnt have enough time, or truthfully enough stimuli to portray linda how she deserved to be played. both charachter contridict yet compliment each other so beautifully. clare had savage down to a t. and its so frusterating for me to think that linda was underdeveloped. but whats done is done and hopefully in the future i can come back and work on her more. i just finished danny in the deep blue sea and women of manhattan as well, WOM ive worked on already, so im not about to embrace DDBS. shanley's fun but i need to branch out.
as for non-plays (i dont think thats correct grammer but oh well) besides reading dolores (which im kind of sensing is written by shanley as well, although i cant say for sure because i just have copied pages w/ no author name!!!) and the only game in town, im re-reading one of my all time favorite campy classics, valley of the dolls. chic lit at its finest! can you ask for a better beach read?! melodrama, melt downs, over the top phrases, and the 60's! i think not. im also begining 'the power of now', which my friend saskia swears totally changed her life. (btw this was before paris was photographed with it!!) the first few pages didnt draw me in the way they are supposed to, but then again, it is non fiction and deeply spiritual. speaking of spiritual books, i was walking by the strand the other day and picked up a book titled 'tibetan buddhism'. one dollar! in no way am i suggesting everyone convert to buddhism, but i do think its concept is universally appealing, and people would benefit by at least learning about it. i dont know much about it, seeing as how i just got the book, but i believe it differs from christianity in that people are not made to feel guilty or wrong by thier "sins." on a lighter note, i was given a copy of the NY times bestseller, a thousand splendid suns, which i am eager to begin!
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