The Bastard Child

'Free Henry Goodbar, Telepath,' video shoot today. Hoping for a marathon session where we capture most of the sound and fury of the piece. It's a little 'anti-climatic,' no audience, no applause, but it's a way of documenting some of the good work we've done. The trick is to try to not kill the life of the play with static shots. What's great about theater is the live aspect of performance, literally anything can happen (sometimes does) and the fleeting moment gives everything on stage a little more edge, more zing.

I suspect we'll end up with hours of videotape, and then the enormous task of editing (a good winter project). I'm still learning this process, but I think somewhere down the line, we will do a film project from scratch. Obviously, doing a 'movie' of a play is a kind of 'bastard,' child, in that we're trying to meld two essentially different art forms. So, 'damn the torpedoes.'