Charlie's Thoughts

First off I apologize for the site downtime that keeps happening, seems 1&1 is getting flaky on me. Anyways, Wednesday was busy, a bit too busy actually. I just slipped in some homework minutes before they were due. But now that it's over I have some time to explain "The Creation of the World and other business", of course I'm talking about the play by Arther Miller that I've been helping out on...

Follow up:

The past weekend was rather intense in terms of helping with the play, we spent about 6 hours on Saturday hanging the lights in the Repitory theater. Theather is HUGE at Yale. As such there are a number of orinizations, (Yale Drama Coalition) and the Dramat are the big players. YDC sort of manages all the performences and provides common information, I think I am their webmaster too? But the Dramat is the main group. They put on three fall shows, two plays and a musical. After working on three you become a member of the Dramat.

In terms of performence spaces at Yale, there are quite a few. The Rep and the university are the two main ones that the dramat and Grad students use. There are numerous other common rooms and mini-theaters as well. For Creation (the play), we are in the Rep. Which I will discuss later. Also available is the Off-Broadway theater. Not sure how to describe it, but it seats about 100 and is very small, but has a wide, almost full stage with electrics for lights and all the technical things a big theater would have.

Anyways, working in the Rep all weekend was quite an experience. Normally, one has electric bars that hang over the stage and one hangs lights on. However, our theaters have a grid. Basically what this is: A few beams with netting as a floor, so you can bounce up there and stuff, very scary. Anyways, you attach some poles to these beams and build your own Grid to hang lights on. Which we did Saturday.

Sunday, was a day of focusing, after the lights are actually hung, they must be put in the correct place. So we go through each light one by one and point it to a spot on the stage, and put colors in, and make shapes and such. Finally, we all took turns running the board which actually controls the lights. It's much less involved than it was back home because I don't actually have to learn the show.

However, I did go see the dress rehersal tonight to take YDN photos for the review. It was really a great show, I usually don't like non-musicals, but it was excellent. My freshman friend from the VQ is the lead, Adam, and he is just Fantastic. He can REALLY act well, and he fits the character well. In addition, the guy playing Lucifer was excellent. Should be a good show and I'll put pictures up once the story runs.

Next weekend I'm heading into NYC for some real (off-)broadway action, so I am excited for that!!! Plus an improv trip to Boston to follow the weekend after. Till later!