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Dec. 14th, 2001 01:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changelingLaim, Saxon and I are hopefully putting on a play second semester next year. We'll be acting in it. This is exciting, because I haven't done any acting (on stage) since last year.
Laim and I went shopping for plays today. Went to Fine Music (best place for sheet music and/or plays in Melbourne that I know of). Scott, the funky guy (who looks vaguely like John Cleese) who usually helps me gave us a play directory published by Samuel French.
Now, call me naïve, but I had no idea that such a useful publication existed. To be honest, I'd never given it much thought. We were able to look up plays in the front of the book by number of people, including the gender division. Then you could look up the play in the body of the book and it gave a brief description of plot. Our original list had four "comedies", seven "plays", four "serious plays" and nine "dramas". I still have no idea of the difference between serious plays and dramas. I have a feeling that the former may be darker.
After having read the descriptions, we were able to narrow that list down to eight maybes and three potential plays. We searched for them, but were only able to find one play. Laim started to read it. The two main male characters had (interestingly enough) superficial resemblences to Laim & Saxon. Considering none of the other plays were there, we bought it.
I read it later, and it's great; kind of like Tom Stoppard (particularly The Real Inspector Hound), but it's not humorous absurdism like that...perhaps like Tom Stoppard and Agatha Christie's lovechild... I don't know. If Laim and Saxon like it as much as I do, we'll be putting on The Business of Murder by Richard Harris next year.
Bed time now.
Laim and I went shopping for plays today. Went to Fine Music (best place for sheet music and/or plays in Melbourne that I know of). Scott, the funky guy (who looks vaguely like John Cleese) who usually helps me gave us a play directory published by Samuel French.
Now, call me naïve, but I had no idea that such a useful publication existed. To be honest, I'd never given it much thought. We were able to look up plays in the front of the book by number of people, including the gender division. Then you could look up the play in the body of the book and it gave a brief description of plot. Our original list had four "comedies", seven "plays", four "serious plays" and nine "dramas". I still have no idea of the difference between serious plays and dramas. I have a feeling that the former may be darker.
After having read the descriptions, we were able to narrow that list down to eight maybes and three potential plays. We searched for them, but were only able to find one play. Laim started to read it. The two main male characters had (interestingly enough) superficial resemblences to Laim & Saxon. Considering none of the other plays were there, we bought it.
I read it later, and it's great; kind of like Tom Stoppard (particularly The Real Inspector Hound), but it's not humorous absurdism like that...perhaps like Tom Stoppard and Agatha Christie's lovechild... I don't know. If Laim and Saxon like it as much as I do, we'll be putting on The Business of Murder by Richard Harris next year.
Bed time now.