tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40488242254177914342012-01-07T18:44:46.424-05:00Why does bad theater happen to good people?Gordon Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17755077776360745652noreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4048824225417791434.post-57127960628987543792009-03-16T12:06:00.004-04:002009-03-16T12:32:38.869-04:00

There's too much that's happened to blog about, all of which leads me to three bits of news:1) Spring -- WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU? I've cut my hair drastically, I've been drinking white wine, like get a move on already.2) Solid as Ba-rack -- Get it, Barry!3) New performance in May, "The Glass Menagerie (this machine demolishes dreams, circa 1944)"

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These are not "Best of 2008" lists (up with which I will not put) but rather just a nod toward what really got to me this year. This group is, thus, rather short, but I'm only putting down things that immediately come to mind, having stayed with me for some time. Not all of them are 2008, either.THEATERPassing Strange (Stew and Heidi Rodewald, dir. Annie Dorsen)South Pacific (Rodgers and

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Music is the freight train in which God travels Bang! It does its thang and then my soul unravelsHeals like holy water and it fights all my battlesMusic is the freight train in which God travelsJust replace "music" with "theatre" or moreso with "art," and I think that's what I feel towards it. It fights all my battles.(I mean, I do feel that way about music anyway, but you know what I mean.)

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So...  ZODIAC is a fucking amazing movie.

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...that I am going to miss, and miss intensely, this summer in New York:TR Warszawa's MACBETHArticle from today's Times:Scottish Play Gets Polish MakeoverReally, I'm not kidding, I'm fucking pissed.

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Today paradise was the enemyToday the real become routineToday my edges dulled togetherAnd there's no point left to dreamMama!Marianna and Moroccan hash have got me stonedAnd I can't find my way homeMama!She's serving every one of my desires on a platterBut it doesn't even matter anymoreOhParadise is a boreIt doesn't even matter anymore

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I think I've finally put it into words.I would like to rescue and revive plays, which have been either forgotten or deemed far-gone, by dramatizing their inherent stageworthiness and by exposing their absolute immediacy, of both structure and content.  I want to accomplish this by imposing horridly on the author's perhaps "original" intent with all sorts of theatre magic that the play itself

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President Bush has resorted anew to the sleaziest fear-mongering and mass manipulation of an administration and public life dedicated to realizing the lowest of our expectations. And he has now applied these poisons to the 2008 presidential election, on behalf of the party at whose center he and John McCain lurk.Mr. Bush has predicted that the election of a Democratic president could "eventually

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Here's my to-do list currently:(while in Lyon)1) untitled Jacques-Yves Cousteau piece (in collaboration with Julie-Elise Olinde)2) dérangement/ouragan (hurricane piece I let fall by the wayside)(upon my return to the States)3) Untitled Record Album No. 1 (music tbd -- Mark, I want to talk to you about this)4) assistant director gigs pronto

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This is fucking hot:This is even hotter:This is the hottest fucking photo I've ever seen:Mmmmm.........Annie Leibowitz.

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After all, tomorrow is another day.I now leave for Lyon in 4 and a half weeks, or 34 days. I will be gone June 2 through July 30. Wow. That's a long time. I haven't been that far "from home" for that long since I moved to NYC from Baton Rouge. I am so entirely excited.In the meantime: fallout. That horrible sinking non-feeling state of uselessness and empty immediacy after the end of a

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I have so much going on in my life. I've been trying to sit back and sort of work some sort of life plan, or at least some sort of in-the-near-future-of-my-life plan. Things are lining up, just hopefully the dominoes will all fall into place. It's a lot to think about while being so crazy busy.One forgets how exhausting and only mildly fulfilling food service can be. I don't like my new job

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TO ONE AND TO ALL:YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO MY VERY FIRST PRODUCTION IN NYC!This promises to be a truly unique event, and I and my collaborators really hope you can attend. Drinks will be prepared and served onstage -- so there's at least some entertainment value guaranteed!I HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!Thanks and all best,Gordon Walker MacB@McK a Macbeth event after Shakespeare's

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Refer to title of post.Also, in desperate need of some kind of stage manager. I can't deal with myriad scheduling issues all on my own, I'm already nuts.

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And thank God. I really enjoyed seeing great friends in/and good theatre, but Chi-town is not the town for me.TONIGHTcommence rehearsals for Macbeth.Starring:Well, we're not entirely sure yet, are we? Stay posted.But the important part is:FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 25 AND 2610:00 PM255 McKIBBIN ST in BROOKLYNPlease come!

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25% of Hillary supporters would vote for McCain if Obama gets the nomination. Way to go, Hillary. (Can't get the link to work, go here:)http://www.americablog.com/2008/03/25-of-hillary-supporters-would-vote-for.htmlexcerpt:A recent PEW poll shows that 10% of Democrats who support Obama would defect and vote for McCain should Hillary become the candidate. But, a

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Why is the default mechanism simply to resign?Now Governor Spitzer is indeed under criminal investigation, so that's appropriate ultimately.But Geraldine Ferraro? Because she made some ur-racist comments that "may" "inject" race into the Presidential campaign?And even back to Don Imus, with his "slur" against the Rutgers (right?) women basketball players and Isaiah Washington's "faggot" blech on

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This: Fake Memoirs via Parabasis (a very enjoyable blog)Are fake memoirs the literary equivalent of reality TV? Why are we upset to find a memoir has been fictionalized, to whatever degree, while editing to create drama on otherwise "reality" shows is par for the course? Is it the more select, dare I say rarefied, circle of serious readers in this country? But people only seem to get upset

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I have been enjoying myself today at the Public. I feel helpful. I am the only person so far who has reported on Macbeth (the Goold). I kind of hate being that person; it feels like, Who am I to deliver such an aria about this acclaimed production? I'm 23 and an asshole. (And I'm directing the play right now anyway.)Boy, is Hillary a comeback kid? Or pathetic? I'm all for her, but I can't

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Salut tout le monde.Thursday night I was able to attend the opening night of Passing Strange on Broadway.  I also got to bring Katie East and Zach Harvey (cue freak-out).It was, in its way, practically a religious experience.  And I don't have those all too often.  It is one of the best things that has ever happened to me.-----Monday night I attended a screening at Joe's Pub at the Public of a

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So I'm trying to respond to Rupert Goold's Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart. I write that very purposefully, because I think in part some disappointment comes from the fact that it was Rupert Goold's Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart. When I think we were expecting (and had been told as much by the press and by BAM) Patrick Stewart's Macbeth directed by Rupert Goold. This production could have

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For everyone's benefit, from our producer Mia:"The Emperor's New Clothes"......I mean Macbeth, is moving to Broadway. So six weeks worth of Lyceum audiences can congratulate themselves for being so cultured. For all of Goold's referencing Stalin and horror movies, this was bloodless, lifeless, listless. Unfortunate in a play that is about high passion, a play usually associated with the

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I conjure you, by that which you profess,Howe'er you come to know it, answer me:Though you untie the winds and let them fightAgainst the churches; though the yesty wavesConfound and swallow navigation up;Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down;Though castles topple on their warders' heads;Though palaces and pyramids do slopeTheir heads to their foundations; though the treasureOf

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It's quittin' time!(Was that offensive?)I'm quitting at Marsh, the world's largest insurance brokerage (Find the Upside in Risk!). I'm quitting to intern at the Public three days a week instead of two, and there's no point in me staying at Marsh for two days.Off to Poor City, to find a new job ASAP please!!Those Oscars....Good for Marion Cotillard (I guess? I haven't seen the movie)My fave

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New plays (mostly) suck:Mon night -- reading of a new play at NYU. A "Southern gothic" in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor. It was not a play, it was maybe a movie. It felt like a movie of the week, but I think you could make a reasonably compelling film out of it; if the actors played it totally straight and committed, which they really didn't at this reading. They played so broadly you

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Lohan -- yay or nay? Nyay. Real boobs, though.Shaved hoohas -- yay or nay? Nay.I am seeing Patrick Stewart in Macbeth at BAM next week. Excited -- yay or nay? YAY.Lohan: Why should a woman who is healthy and strong blubber like a baby when her man goes away?(Making no sense, and no I'm not Marshmellowin' -- I'm Publickin' today!)

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WOWSorry for that last post/sorry for my horrible weekend. No more pot for a while, hmm?MacbethApril 25 and 26"Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before. "--------------This interests me. I feel it, even as I've been all for my Hill-dog.This interests me: Anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism

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So, my grandmother died, and it was sad. And I'm still sad. I'm sadder now than I was at home at the funeral, at any rate. Which feels weirds. Watched Old Yeller on TV on Saturday and that was kind of upsetting.I have to get a new job. Even at three days a week at my temp job, I'm done, I'm really done, and I'm also afraid to be found out and fired, as I have no real idea what I've been

Gordon Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17755077776360745652noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4048824225417791434.post-89225789422853519652008-02-07T16:46:00.000-05:002008-02-07T16:50:08.334-05:00

CIA director: Waterboarding necessary, but probably illegalThat's all folks.Let's pretend we only did it to three people. (Bull)Let's also pretend it was either a teenager or two two guys they arrested today in Pakistan for Benazir Bhutto's assassination that were them that actually did it, y'all! (And not, hmm, our puppet prince/president Musharraf -- which, said drunkenly I've discovered,

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Too cute:We Tortured and We'd Do It AgainPresident Bush would authorize waterboarding future terrorism suspects if certain criteria are met, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said this morning, one day after the director of the CIA for the first time publicly acknowledged his agency's use of the tactic, which generally involves strapping a prisoner to a board, covering his face or mouth with a

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O nation miserable,With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptr'dWhen shalt thou see thy wholesome days again?Macbeth 5.9.08Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits.

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Thanks to all who came out in the horrible weather for the Mardi Gras bash. That's what it's about, people. What a celebration! Hands down, the best.Take a look at photos from The Advocate (BR, not the gays!) of the Spanish Town Mardi Gras parade in downtown Baton Rouge. For me it has always been the most fun, most celebratory, most inclusive, most wonderful of all the Mardi Gras parades (

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Still grappling with how to deal with I'm Not There and Dogville. I'm for sure completely in love with Dogville. And not head over heels, but a feeling of I know this film is in my life now, and I couldn't imagine that any other way.I need to see I'm Not There again, but hopefully not by myself. It is a long film... (let's not even talk Dogville on that account)BUT...I have to...I must

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This past weekend I did not leave my apartment from Friday night to Monday afternoon, for a myriad of reasons. I thus watched lots of movies. I'll mention a few:(on TV):Bring It On: Still far more enjoyable than it has any right to be. Interesting to think about contextually, though. One of very few movies that are about females, and maybe the only successful female sports movie.Bridget Jones’

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So within a whirlwind 12 hours of drunkenness with the lovely Mia Katigbak, a plan was hatched to produced McB@McK.com, a producation of Macbeth at Mark et al's apartment in Brooklyn. The following are her (McKatigbak the producer's) restrictions on the production:1. The piece cannot be more than 90 minutes. Preferably, shorter.2. It will be an all-male cast, with no more than 6 actors.3. It is

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UPDATED 2:09 pm:This article expresses a lot of what I think I've been feeling (as well):Emotion Without Thought in New Hampshire(Judith Warner/Domestic Disturbances on NYTimes website)-----I really have no knowledge or understanding of economics, so I won't pretend to. I will say, though, that I don't make a lot of money and don't necessarily need to. Frankly, I would appreciate my tax rate to

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Tomorrow at 10 am sharp I start my internship at the Public. I'm nervous.Some interesting things today:"Obama and Magic" from TAPPED blog"Barack, You're Nice Enough" from the Huff PostI just don't know what to make of Barack Obama. I also don't know...what to do for my birthday on January 15!I do need to see the following plays: August: Osage County, The Homecoming, and Happy Days. I need to

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Thank you, George McGovern: Why I Believe Bush Must Go. (from Washington Post)----------------From me, not George McGovern: Obama is looking all-the-sudden unstoppable. It occurred to me this morning reading something that it doesn't really matter who I want out of Obama/Clinton/Edwards/Richardson/whoever else, because I am not going to get an opportunity to make that choice before a nominee is

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I am going to attempt to post more often. Whether or not anyone reads it.I am still working at Marsh three days a week but starting next week I will be at the Public on Wednesdays and Thursdays!

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Why cannot I not deal with realism and/or naturalism in the theatre?Realism, especially, demands a structuring of a performance that gives to the audience the appearance of inevitability.Inevitability -- the inability to evade. Unable to escape. Inevitability finally leads to death.Realism hinges on "transitions" and psychology to connect every single dot in a mostly linear fashion to give the

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You would think that I go mad with griefwhen the white sails fill and the keel cutsthe waters like a knife honed on whetstone:that’s the way you’re taught to interpret these signs–matted hair, the salt-dirt lines where sweat has run,hands that feed the mouth but will not wipe it.But when my love decides to go and then is gone,I can still taste him, bitter in the throat; I stillfeel the weight of

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Had some very potent notions bubbling in the head this weekend, but I now can't remember any of them, except that certains of them were explosive. I need to keep a pad and paper around all the time, but most especially when I'm high.I may be working on an outdoor production of Macbeth with the Red Door Theatre in Queens. In October. It sounds cool, however, it is a 7 person "adaptation." I'm

Gordon Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17755077776360745652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4048824225417791434.post-80403047977250117242007-08-15T12:48:00.000-04:002007-08-15T13:00:52.237-04:00

Who did not love that J.K. Rowling prefaced Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with the following from The Libation Bearers (or Choephori from the Oresteia by Aeschylus)?Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the haemorrhage none can staunch, the grief, the curse no man can bear.But there is a cure in the house and not outside it, no,

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MAMAN Methinks our garments are now as fresh As when we put them on first in Afric At the marriage of the king's fair daughter to the King of Tunis. MARIE 'Twas a sweet marriage, And we prosper well in our return. MAMAN Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to their queen. Not since widow Dido's time. MARIE Widow! A pox on that! How came that widow in?

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Where have I been? In the real world. I suppose that's why it's so disappointing that so much theatre resembles the real world. Lord knows I've had enough of it by 8:00 pm, and I especially don't want to pay for it, when I can get it for free on television – or, I mean, on the streets. Yo.It's fine, really, that there's theatre that resembles real life, that purports to ... (natch) ... act as a

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Even as I have too much time on my hands I feel these posts are a bit overbearing. Thus, I will try in this post to cover three productions I saw over a two week or so period that between them show off the good and the bad about the not-so-off-Broadway theatre just right off, well, Broadway.SUDDENLY LAST SUMMERRoundabout Theatre Company @ the Laura PelsGrade: CTHE CLEAN HOUSELincoln Center

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TRANSLATIONSManhattan Theatre Club @ the BiltmoreGrade: AMTC and the McCarter Theater at Princeton collaborated on this production of Brian Friel’s 1980 play Translations, which appeared first in the fall in New Jersey. Garry Hynes, who was the first woman director to win a Tony Award (for The Beauty Queen of Leenane), directed a cast that included Irish, British, and American actors.The play

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In the next few days/posts I'll attempt a (hopefully) short recap of the productions I've seen so far in NYC and their effect on my hypothèse de théâtre that is currently still under revision. Of course that will probably always be. First off: (and I am deeply unhappy to admit it) my very first, and most awful, theatrical experience in NYC.AS YET THOU ART YOUNG AND RASHTarget Margin Theater @ the

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As my adventures in blogging begin, I'd like to take a look back at the productions I have so far seen/witnessed/been assaulted by on the New York stages since my move here. In a spirit of solidarity with my classroom-bound comrades, I've graded each production and assigned NYC its midterm GPA. Will the city keep its TOPS? Find out now!D As Yet Thou Art Young and Rash A TranslationsC Suddenly

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Ten and one half weeks ago I departed the family homestead to make my way in the big city. I left with a prestigious internship, a manageable financial situation; and in some greater sense, a worldview: a scheme of ideals, thoughts, feelings, hunches, intuitions, and dissatisfactions about my world and the art that happens inside of it.Ten and one half weeks later I have none of these things.But

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