So instead of writing a last blog about Richard III. I wish to do a different approach and write about my experience on production blogs and why?
I know this isn't part of the assignment and may cause me to lose some points, but flip it. It's my production blog and I will write whatever I wish too.
So this assignment is actually really cool. It's not like other research assignments we get on, "hey read an article, do a review." No we actually get to research on a topic of our interest. Sure, we get a main topic, but we break that down.
To be honest, I didn't have a play solified until Wednesday and went straight back to the drawing board. Jen mentioned as we spoke in class on what the Hunchback related too. Her statement in class "Did shakespeare write about a hunchback?" My internal process instantly jumped "Richard!" Yeah! I was right? Wait!? I was right? How did I know that? Duh, you saw that years ago and it was one of your favorites. So good that after the show I waited outside leading a group of people to see if we could run into the main actor who played Richard III.
His name was James Comb and a professor and player of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It was awesome speaking to him even though he literally was the last actor to leave the theatre. He spoke of Richards character and how he determined his movement like a mechanical spider who was waiting to strike. Just waitng. I loved everything he did with Richard and the production was glorious.
After posting a few blogs I began to realized that this is probably the same work that James would do for his character alone. He didn't have to worry about the other fields, but he would become obsessed with playing the most villaineous character of them all.
So we as actors/playwrights/whatever we will be, need to know that the history of our plays/productions. Why? Because there will always be a bigger and better picture if we just take the time and look closer.
Thank you for all the good times in TH History. It has shown me there was history in theatre.
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