Honest Illusion

On Saturdays, I take a class in Improv Comedy.  I thought I'd share with you one of the exercises/game we did it class. The game is called ''Growing & Shrinking Freeze Tag''.  In regular Improv Freeze Tag, two people start a scene, and at some point, while in the midpoint of some action, the director (or the audience) yells ''Freeze'', ...

OK, Let's try this again (The first one got eaten by the system) Sunday was the Closing Brunch and Awards ceremony.  Here are the winners: Merit Awards (sort of like ''Honorable mention'') Ensemble Acting: Liz Keifer & Cat Guthrie, Going to the Chapel, NY Ensemble Acting: Edd  Miller, Duncan Hood, Dianne Hood, Nick Beschen, ...

After the hardy hotel breakfast, I joined in on the one ''outside'' activity planned for the weekend -- A walking tour of Historic Dover Delaware.  Being a sucker for old building, I loved it -- I should have some photos up in the gallery soon. For lunch, I gate-crashed into the ESTA Executive board meeting which they were holding in a ...

OK, so I don't write a message for 6 months. But you can always count on a good ESTA Festival to get me talking.  This year it is being held in Delaware -- just about the same length of drive as the Maryland one last year (Hate to think where their gonna send us next year --- New York or Pennsylvania. After a rather uneventful drive down, ...

Sorry, I guess I left you hanging there.....Sunday, we had the final performance, ''Harriet'' by the Serenity Players of Washington, DC. Originally a one-women monologue about Harriet Tubman, they added a second woman, who performed a couple hymns (Tubman was given the talk at a church revivial meeting, so it worked).After that we broke for lunch, ...

Sorry about cutting that short but I was late for dinner. Anyway, back to our story: Well, first of all, somehow a paragraph got lost form my last post (I'm writing off-line, so it's easier to add it here than correct it there). So, the short play ''Fin & Euba'', ended about 2PM. The festival organizers wanted to start the next show ...

After breakfast, I was over to the college for the morning workshop session. Actually, this one was a repeat of the one I came in at the end of yesterday: ''Script Analyst: Understanding the playwright's scenario'' by Ward Dales, who is one of the adjudicators. I thought it was kind-a interesting, considering I don't actor or direct, and it was ...

I'm writing from the lovely little town of Wye Mills, Maryland, the site of the Eastern States' Theater Association's 2004 Theater Fest. After a rather hellish drive down (lost an hour to traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike), the very second that I pulled into the motel's parking lot, my boss calls me on my cellphone. With the scramble to park, and ...

On Nov 19th, I started my new job at PartSearch Technologies. On Nov 20th, having realized a few days earlier that Driver's License had expired three weeks earlier, I got a new one after work -- waiting in long lines, and thereby missing Bat Boy - The Musical at Montclair State College. The weekend of Nov 21st, I flew to Fort Lauderdale, FL for ...

Ok, so, I've been a bit lax about writing this blog.  Hey, it's not like people was hanging around wait for my next report.  We all know this is just for some future researcher writing a biography of me years from now, after I win a Nobel Prize or something. Anyway,  Theater.  I remember on the Weekend of Nov 6th through 9th, I saw 5 plays ...