Eclipse

There haven't been many posts in awhile. I understand why. We have been working so hard. Rehearsing, performing... I feel like we've barely left the theater in the last week or so. I walked out, outside, away from the theater, today after the show. I had just finished a plastic cup of 'prop' champagne... Most people were walking by without looking, as usual, in the rush and hubbub of Union Square. I certainly didn't know anything particular was happening around me. Then I noticed... groups of people, or a person alone here, by a doorway, or there with his dog - and they were looking up. All of these random people just looking up as the city marched past them. Some had telescopes or camcorders, or binoculars... Then I looked up too, and I saw it! The moon! This halo of a moon, swathed in a sheen of black. Eclipsing... It glowed from something hidden, deep inside. I think our play is like that, can be like that...

Apparently now, 

outside, 

the moon is glowing red.

...

Jess

Snow and steam rooms

It is snowing today. I'm sitting in a taxi on my way to the rehearsal and holding on tight to my safety belt... Yesterday was our day off -- a selfcare day for me. In the evening, as I was sitting in the steam room of the gym, ideas about Max kept flooding my mind. Actually, steam rooms (and dark rooms) are natural habitat for my character. That explains something. No?! Tuomas

Aaaahh....

This is so much fun! 

I finished the show and walked outside and the sky was hanging like a strange gray translucent blanket - the frigid air pouring into the city. It was a strange show tonight - but I don't mind the strange ones. I often find new things in shows that are a little off-kilter; the matinees, the double shows. It is so interesting the different energies that different audiences bring - the Saturday night show versus the Friday night show versus the Sunday matinee... The audience has a beautiful and strange collective energy or consciousness almost.

I am filled with the rush and joy of doing this show with these people in this place. Yay!

Also looking forward to a day off. We all really need it.

Until soon!

Jess 

Previews and secret admirers

Last night we had our first preview. Lots of my friends (12!!) showed up to support us. All of them were very, very excited about the show. I also learned that cast members have secret admirers... Tuomas

Morning

I have awoken groggy... a stirring... inside... the sky is thick and gray. It is gentle and it glows.

We have all been in, are all in, that theater - that space. Things are being built, lights are being added, music, video. It's surging. It's twisting and turning and we, all of us, we are wrapped up inside it. Pushing and pulling, waiting, working and breathing, breathing, breathing...

Jess K.

BIHARI

All day she studies her new
love-bite in the mirror,
examining, covering,
then revealing again.


Nicole

Tech

Our first technical rehearsal at DR2... Sexy lights. Cool projections. Hot music. Fast scene changes. Quick costume changes. Corsets. Boys going inside a closet (-- and coming out). Coffee, coffee, coffee... Tuomas

Don't tell mama

My mom doesn't know the title of our show -- yet!!! Mum's the word... Tuomas

Hooray

The first rehearsal at the theater! The set looks totally awesome -- out of this world, really... On our day off I went shopping (Rei Kawakubo's Comme Des Garcons Boutique) and then saw an opening at The Met Opera. Got to go now, it's my entrance! Better not get my knickers in a twist tonight (ooops, I'm not wearing any). Tuomas

Knicks 'n' knacks 'n' knickers

The first rehearsal at the theater! The set looks totally awesome -- out of this world... On our day off I went shopping (Rei Kawakubo's Comme Des Garcons Boutique) and then I saw an opening at The Met Opera. Got to go now, it's my entrance! Better not get my knickers twisted tonight (ooops, I'm not wearing any).
Tuomas

Despite...

well well well.....

for years believing its this and now its THAT.
what can i say?
in this moment, being all that IS, i unfold terrified and excited.
the vulnerability, the bravery, the ecstasy at times overwhelming.
the need to challenge inhibiting manufactured structures is paramount, today....
and so i carry on through the winds of disappointment and change. inhale. exhale.
perhaps you can relate.
nonetheless, i have never been happier than i am right NOW.

Nicole

The ache in my pants!!!

Every part of my body is surging... my pants feel tight in rehersal from the raw energy in the room... boy, girl, puppy and prop- it doesn't matter I might explode it feels so right! This may sound crazy but im aching to be the vulture circling the lion pack as they shed apart that last bit of rehersal zebra spleen!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck it feels good... fuck, fuck, fuck shit!!!!!!! DICK!

Man that felt good...


William J.

Popping the Cherry

Guess I'm the first one. Wow, I've never written a blog of any kind - so many firsts for me with this play! 

So... yes, we, I, we are excited - we are going into the theater tomorrow (yay!) if all goes as planned. I had my make-up design done yesterday as well as hair. Fierce!

That is all for the moment. Very much enjoying the day off, it is very windy, the sky is blue blue - and all things point towards newness, change, expansion... I could go on -

Jess