Macbeth shall sleep no more

In my younger days as a professional actor, I spent a lot of time carrying a spear (as the saying goes).  Not at first.  In High School and College, I played lead roles.  When I left college and entered the acting world, I was a kid with talent, but no real technique.  (This is not meant as a slight to the schools I went to as an undergrad. Technique is something you acquire by doing the work. The whole Malcolm Gladwell thing about 10,000 hours needed to master something thing). Fortunately, I love to work.  I love the process.  I really fucking love creating theatre.  So, when I moved from Las Cruces to Washington DC, and a couple of years later to Seattle, I took whatever I could.  The day I arrived in DC, I auditioned for a "Julius Caesar" with the Washington Shakespeare Company.  I got cast as the sort of right hand man to Caesar who became the right hand man to Antony (lots of little roles tied together).  I was a kid, but I was i...

Time is flying.  Time is fleeting.  Time is precious. Our second week of Macbeth Revisited has come and gone.  Doing a play two nights a week is the norm in LA theatre.  But that doesn't mean that it is easy.  We had such a great run up leading to opening weekend.  We have been rehearsing 5 nights a week for like a month and a half.  We were living in the world of the play nearly every day.  And then we open and...see you in a week.  It's jarring.  Especially in a piece like this where there are so many of us who have been breathing the same air, getting on one another's nerves, getting over it and coming together.--And then there was tech. Speaking of so many of us, I wanted to take a moment to talk about some of the other people in the play.  Don't get used to it...if they want to be talked about they can write their own blogs.  But I do love them all. David Purdham, who is an absolute treasure of a human being and geni...

We opened the show!  It's been an amazing journey already and we still have a ways to go--a ways to grow.  (See what I did there?)  I'm really proud of this show, and so happy to be working with so many people who are near and dear to me. (Blogger note:  I started writing this on opening night, but got too tired.  I was going to write about many of the other actors in the show, but as I picked up the thread, other things came to me...about me--sorry friends).  Having an audience this weekend was so instructive and exciting.  And the show jumped to a whole new level. What sets theatre apart from other art forms is that it is a living breathing artistic endeavor and there is almost always growth during the run of a play. With Jack directing, there will never be a time to sit back and rest on our laurels.  And that's one of the things I admire most about him.  It's all journey, after all. And the journey for me has been a little bit cra...