Here are all the basics. More fun info to come!
BONGANI @ The Fringe Encore Series
Sat. Sept 17, 4:30pm
Sun Sept 18, 5:00pm
Mon Sept 19, 8:00 pm
Wed Sept 21, 8:00pm
15 Vandam Street
New York, NY 10013
Tickets and Info:
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
We made the Encore Series!!
Whew. After being crushed by having our last two shows in the Fringe cancelled by Hurricane Irene, we then got the thrilling news that we'd been selected for the Encore Series, so we have four more shows this month! We'll be at the lovely Soho Playhouse. So nice.
Here are all the basics. More fun info to come!
Here are all the basics. More fun info to come!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Actual blogging
Hmm. Maybe I'll use this as an actual blog. As I was posting this on FB a few minutes ago:
Thank you to wonderful audiences yesterday. This morning I am...stunned, grateful, happy, excited...feeling all the energy of that special bond forged in the theatre; I'm up there in a glow of light, being inhabited by all these powerful souls, and seeing a sea of open, active faces in the audience around me -- traveling with me, laughing, crying, communing. I kind of can't believe that I get to do this.
I thought: I have so much more to write. It's pouring out of me now. I can't write a novel on Facebook, and then I went "Oh, duh. That's what a blog is for."
Though now that I'm typing I realize I'm so tired I can hardly see straight. But I just need to gush about how beautiful yesterday was. Show Business. It's a weird thing. But that "still you wouldn't trade it for a sack of gold" is because there is magic in being surrounded by humans breathing WITH you. It's a crazy, beautiful experience. And somehow, this show, this week, I'm feeling it more acutely than ever before. It's been a profound and sometimes harrowing journey creating this piece...and suddenly it flies...and I'm just soaring with it, feeling a little like I was shot out of a cannon.
More later. So grateful, content and thrilled this morning.
Thank you to wonderful audiences yesterday. This morning I am...stunned, grateful, happy, excited...feeling all the energy of that special bond forged in the theatre; I'm up there in a glow of light, being inhabited by all these powerful souls, and seeing a sea of open, active faces in the audience around me -- traveling with me, laughing, crying, communing. I kind of can't believe that I get to do this.
I thought: I have so much more to write. It's pouring out of me now. I can't write a novel on Facebook, and then I went "Oh, duh. That's what a blog is for."
Though now that I'm typing I realize I'm so tired I can hardly see straight. But I just need to gush about how beautiful yesterday was. Show Business. It's a weird thing. But that "still you wouldn't trade it for a sack of gold" is because there is magic in being surrounded by humans breathing WITH you. It's a crazy, beautiful experience. And somehow, this show, this week, I'm feeling it more acutely than ever before. It's been a profound and sometimes harrowing journey creating this piece...and suddenly it flies...and I'm just soaring with it, feeling a little like I was shot out of a cannon.
More later. So grateful, content and thrilled this morning.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
AAAAAAGH!
Mounting a solo show is crazy.
This will, one day, be more of a blog. But that will clearly be AFTER this show is mounted, so, in the meantime....
All the SHOW INFO is on the SCHEDULE tab.
Lots lots more info is on our Facebook page, which is Two-Girls-The-Play...
Photos are about to be posted somewhere...here...I think I need a photo page?...
This will, one day, be more of a blog. But that will clearly be AFTER this show is mounted, so, in the meantime....
All the SHOW INFO is on the SCHEDULE tab.
Lots lots more info is on our Facebook page, which is Two-Girls-The-Play...
Photos are about to be posted somewhere...here...I think I need a photo page?...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Monday's Bongani Reading
Hi to all of you out there.
I'm Justin, stage manager for Bongani. On Monday night, I attended the latest semi-public reading of the show. I say "semi-public" because we had a very small, invited audience of friends and family-- about twenty people in total. It was pretty casual; we set up in a rehearsal studio in Midtown, with pizza and wine set up on a side table, and an air conditioner blasting throughout the evening.
I've been in contact by phone & email for the past month, but this was the first time I'd seen the show on its feet. It was also my first opportunity to meet Kate (our director) and Hannah (our production coordinator & liason to the festival) in person. And it was the first time I'd seen Gabrielle since we worked on Two Girls last year.
There were no props and not costumes, and she had a script in her hand for all but one scene. The show itself is not tech-heavy by any means, but the bare-bones performance we saw that night put the focus squarely on the text & the performance. Gabrielle told us to come and go as we pleased. One or two latecomers slipped in after the the reading began, but I don't think anybody left the room until it was finished, an hour and fifty minutes later. It will be shorter by the time we open.
We followed the reading with feedback and a Q&A from the audience. I think the intimate setting (and the wine) helped to get open and constructive responses. The characters, most of them, are familiar from Two Girls, but the story is new, and it is still being refined. So it was helpful to have a kind of 'peer review'. WE all appreciated the notes from Carol and Michael and everyone else (I do not know everybody's names).
I'm excited to help put together all the technical elements over the next two weeks, and to get this show ready for production. At the moment, I'm busy researching South African music and contacting local press. I will post again soon. And I promise that next time I will have pictures.
-Justin
I'm Justin, stage manager for Bongani. On Monday night, I attended the latest semi-public reading of the show. I say "semi-public" because we had a very small, invited audience of friends and family-- about twenty people in total. It was pretty casual; we set up in a rehearsal studio in Midtown, with pizza and wine set up on a side table, and an air conditioner blasting throughout the evening.
I've been in contact by phone & email for the past month, but this was the first time I'd seen the show on its feet. It was also my first opportunity to meet Kate (our director) and Hannah (our production coordinator & liason to the festival) in person. And it was the first time I'd seen Gabrielle since we worked on Two Girls last year.
There were no props and not costumes, and she had a script in her hand for all but one scene. The show itself is not tech-heavy by any means, but the bare-bones performance we saw that night put the focus squarely on the text & the performance. Gabrielle told us to come and go as we pleased. One or two latecomers slipped in after the the reading began, but I don't think anybody left the room until it was finished, an hour and fifty minutes later. It will be shorter by the time we open.
We followed the reading with feedback and a Q&A from the audience. I think the intimate setting (and the wine) helped to get open and constructive responses. The characters, most of them, are familiar from Two Girls, but the story is new, and it is still being refined. So it was helpful to have a kind of 'peer review'. WE all appreciated the notes from Carol and Michael and everyone else (I do not know everybody's names).
I'm excited to help put together all the technical elements over the next two weeks, and to get this show ready for production. At the moment, I'm busy researching South African music and contacting local press. I will post again soon. And I promise that next time I will have pictures.
-Justin
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