How Michael Jackson Influenced My Acting Process
Downplayed and Upstaged It’s been a while since I posted last and a lot has happened since then – but not all of it has been good. Shortly after posting the entry entitled “The Breakdown” I went off to an even worse rehearsal. I’m convinced I jinxed it. I’m not going to delve any more into it – because we had enough negativity floating around last week.I am happy to report, however, that ...
Thu, Sep 17 2009

The Deaf Experience
Downplayed and Upstaged This morning in Carol’s class we discussed the ‘Deaf Experience’ and started to go into how it relates to the literature we would be reading – but we ran out of time. I did relate my own ‘Experience’, or at least some of it, to the class (half of whom are in the play). I figured it would make a decent blog entry for tonight since we’re still blocking stuff and being...
Tue, Sep 08 2009

Schadenfreude
Downplayed and Upstaged Did you know only 10% of Deaf people have Deaf parents?When I heard that statistic at rehearsal on Thursday, I seriously though that was an error on the instructor's part. I mean, doesn't that seem a little low? After rehearsal, when I arrived back home, the first thing I did was double check that statistic using the modern day encyclopedia - Google.And fuck me if i...
Tue, Sep 08 2009