A Word (After Quite Too Long)...
Dear YAs (love that acronym!),
Yes, its me again, the shape that crazily initiated the shaping up of what is now known as the YAs; then left it to the whims and fancy of other people (who I honestly think are much more talented than I am). I hardly post here, as you can quite readily tell, but mainly because I am not exactly in the know enough to say anything about anything. But that I hope to change from now.
Anyway, I am very glad to have read Ghafir's post, as well as speak to Sums, Idora and Oli about your most recent session. Needless to say, I am fucking ecstatic at the reports of excellent progress, and most importantly, cohesiveness of the YAs. Honestly speaking, all that is happening right now is very much in line with what I'd hoped for when I set out to experiment with the YA concept. And its quite because of you - all of you - with notable mentions to Victor, Ghafir, Oli and Sums.
I was just speaking to Idora earlier and I did disclose that amongst other things, I have an ulterior motive for the YAs, which as you should have guessed by now, is searching for talents to join the company as repertory actors/directors/producers etc. At the rate we are going, I can't exactly say whether that objective will be achieved with this pilot project, but I can most certainly say it looks positive currently.
At risk of boring all of you again, I would just like to state for the record that I am overly miffed at the fact that I have to be away in this cold wet country called Wales, and not with you guys, enjoying good discourse with musical interludes in between (Mikey, you've got to play for me when I get back...) But not much can be done about that, I suppose, I'll just have to come back Summer next year and watch the fruits of the program and hope that the incoming intake I will have more involvement with. By the way, I can't come back for Christmas - too expensive - and I'm already starting to feel utterly depressed about it. Sob.
So, yah.
Just a quick comment on Ghafir's post - I very much like the spiritual, internal aspects that he is advocating and the idea of infusing shamanism and theatre is something that is similar to what I have been learning about, experimenting with and trying out with actors over here as well (last year, when I did the Crucible), though it was certainly much less scientific than that I'm sure Ghafir's teachings will be.
(Ghafir, I would love it if you could write a blog on the concepts of it...) Umm... Oh yah. I'm attending a Combat workshop today!! Random thought that. Will update you guys about it!
Back to the point. I hope you guys can make the best use of the time Ghafir has left with the YAs. It's a blessing that he's going to further his studies, but I'm sure the rest of feel (like I do) that it will be a marked loss to the YAs this year. Note, I said this year. Ghafir, I'm hoping you'll come back and join me in the future - you know I'm for real.
As for Victor, I'd just like to say a great big thank you - been receiving many WOW reports about how you're doing with the group and yes, I agree with Ghafir, you do know your shit. For real.
Now just a few more things:
i) Can someone please take some nice shots of sspace and email them to me, and then I can put them on the website as well...
ii) For those of you who are having troubles with getting onto the blog, please write to me directly at my email address;
iii) My MSN ID is square, email is yang@victoriantheatre.com; ICQ # is 8535017, Yahoo ID is why_square - if I'm not on your list, please add me. I'm online 24-7 so I'd be more than happy to have a few chats now and then...;
iv) Just in case, my UK phone number is +447717745521 or +442920204152, and my Maxis line is still working, +60123080813.
Let's try and make this blog cracking. Its a good place to enchange thoughts etc. Right-o. Long blog this. Take care people and believe me, I'm fucked at the thought of not being able to share what you are sharing amongst yourselves now.
Yes, its me again, the shape that crazily initiated the shaping up of what is now known as the YAs; then left it to the whims and fancy of other people (who I honestly think are much more talented than I am). I hardly post here, as you can quite readily tell, but mainly because I am not exactly in the know enough to say anything about anything. But that I hope to change from now.
Anyway, I am very glad to have read Ghafir's post, as well as speak to Sums, Idora and Oli about your most recent session. Needless to say, I am fucking ecstatic at the reports of excellent progress, and most importantly, cohesiveness of the YAs. Honestly speaking, all that is happening right now is very much in line with what I'd hoped for when I set out to experiment with the YA concept. And its quite because of you - all of you - with notable mentions to Victor, Ghafir, Oli and Sums.
I was just speaking to Idora earlier and I did disclose that amongst other things, I have an ulterior motive for the YAs, which as you should have guessed by now, is searching for talents to join the company as repertory actors/directors/producers etc. At the rate we are going, I can't exactly say whether that objective will be achieved with this pilot project, but I can most certainly say it looks positive currently.
At risk of boring all of you again, I would just like to state for the record that I am overly miffed at the fact that I have to be away in this cold wet country called Wales, and not with you guys, enjoying good discourse with musical interludes in between (Mikey, you've got to play for me when I get back...) But not much can be done about that, I suppose, I'll just have to come back Summer next year and watch the fruits of the program and hope that the incoming intake I will have more involvement with. By the way, I can't come back for Christmas - too expensive - and I'm already starting to feel utterly depressed about it. Sob.
So, yah.
Just a quick comment on Ghafir's post - I very much like the spiritual, internal aspects that he is advocating and the idea of infusing shamanism and theatre is something that is similar to what I have been learning about, experimenting with and trying out with actors over here as well (last year, when I did the Crucible), though it was certainly much less scientific than that I'm sure Ghafir's teachings will be.
(Ghafir, I would love it if you could write a blog on the concepts of it...) Umm... Oh yah. I'm attending a Combat workshop today!! Random thought that. Will update you guys about it!
Back to the point. I hope you guys can make the best use of the time Ghafir has left with the YAs. It's a blessing that he's going to further his studies, but I'm sure the rest of feel (like I do) that it will be a marked loss to the YAs this year. Note, I said this year. Ghafir, I'm hoping you'll come back and join me in the future - you know I'm for real.
As for Victor, I'd just like to say a great big thank you - been receiving many WOW reports about how you're doing with the group and yes, I agree with Ghafir, you do know your shit. For real.
Now just a few more things:
i) Can someone please take some nice shots of sspace and email them to me, and then I can put them on the website as well...
ii) For those of you who are having troubles with getting onto the blog, please write to me directly at my email address;
iii) My MSN ID is square, email is yang@victoriantheatre.com; ICQ # is 8535017, Yahoo ID is why_square - if I'm not on your list, please add me. I'm online 24-7 so I'd be more than happy to have a few chats now and then...;
iv) Just in case, my UK phone number is +447717745521 or +442920204152, and my Maxis line is still working, +60123080813.
Let's try and make this blog cracking. Its a good place to enchange thoughts etc. Right-o. Long blog this. Take care people and believe me, I'm fucked at the thought of not being able to share what you are sharing amongst yourselves now.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home