First I am so incredibly lucky to have Matt and Anne, because, well Matt and his Phantastic fiction class, and now Anne who is an actress, and has so much depth. So on the whole Method Acting thing. These are like my fave actors, this style. So I recently have been watching some things on that. For me acting is like magic? To watch actors in films and in plays. I have no idea how this is pulled off by them, to inhabit a character. As a writer, it is very easy for me to understand and know my characters? But the idea of setting a stage, or an emotional stage for them. This is the making of a work of art for me.
Anyway that Talent Show, and seeing Matt and all the others up on that stage, the last night of the Conf. I haven’t always stayed because sometimes so exhausted, but the times I have, it’s just this really beautiful thing that comes together. I know Vanilla Suede is very poignant, because of the music I wrote it to. So this is a total rewrite in a sense because edited from the shorty that was just dialogue. So, music for me is the way I write everything? My ideas on the songs I have chosen to illustrate the feelings.
So I printed out the play, but we can make notes to that – this is the cover. So what the play is about for me – character MARINA, and the longing for love, the sort that was 1929, except that she is in the here and now, of this generation. It’s not like that for TRENT character. Let’s assume that TRENT is so broken (backstory) a few pages back, but he has this brave face in the face of this generation, he is a cheerful character, all surface smiles and no one can see the pain? MARINA is flip, as in the song I played, and yet, in these poems they will chose by themselves, hers, and then the ee? Well this will be totally improv as an insert. It isn’t that she is flip, as very wounded and non-trusting. She lets TRENT lead, but heart is shattered glass, she does not show. This whole method style is that you pull something up out of your own depths in order to become a CHARACTER. The characters then, are part of HUMANITY in a kind of transcendence? I think this is how the audience is moved, and it is so magic to me. I am the luckiest person on earth right now, and I am smiling as I say it. I mean the TALENT SHOW! So this is proving I have some. Am I ever lucky.
I’m just so lucky because for me I am going to see the words come to LIFE? I can’t explan how much that means for me to see that. It’s everything, so anyway this is what I am watching this morning and I am really glad Carmen and Walter can be like the directors because they both come from that tradition, as does Anne, so Matt has nothing to worry about. So anyway, I am watching this today Method Acting a little – so excited! Just know that, there are not RULES, just words on a page for the actors. So, the theme: Love conquers all, even death. My image for this is that, we have to keep going, in life. We keep going, and so MARINA and TRENT are doing this. Yesterday I walked down by the harbor and spent some time talking to a man about Odin my dog. He was walking and we started to talk about the country at this time, and he said he was a quadriplegic. He has walked himself out of that. It was very moving to me, and so think of it like that. Two characters with the woundings that this generation has lived, in the soul. And then, when they dance, and she says: “I’m afraid” this is where TRENT takes the lead. I know it will be so beautiful. Sigh. Yeah. No way to be able to thank the two of you but the Rose Peeps? I think I can give you the prettiest gift. Actually those. But you two are the gift to me.
Adrienne Wilson 