Friday, November 18, 2005

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5 comments:

Powergirl said...

How do you audio post like that?

12:44 PM
Powergirl said...

nevermind. figured it out. how cool is that?

4:43 PM
Ron said...

Well, at least you managed to get this post up. Belive me, I understand being busy and five hour nights...

How is Cockroach going? Good reviews? And it's cool that yo saw Full Circle. I've finally got some info for you if you're still interested in seeing Big Love. Go here:

http://www.theatre.lsu.edu/productions/mainstage.htm

We start the final stretch of rehearsals Monday.

8:08 PM
Kid Ornery said...

If I don't end up getting another temp gig right away, and can somehow convince someone to go with me, or get a bus ticket it's conceivable I could make the 6,7, or 8th...
hmmm...

Cockroach is going great...
I think all 12 people who've seen it so far have really enjoyed it...
o.k. we had a few more at the preview and at our pay what you will, but on friday's and saturday's the average audience so far is 4 ((3+7+2)/3=4))...
so it would be nice to get some folks out to the show...
but I'm having a great time...
the space has some problems (distractions from residents and the warehouse next door, and it's cold, which of course is at least better than hot)...
still despite ALL of that we're kicking ass...

the press review - ah well, here it is -

Envy the Cockroach If you just can't get enough of "chicks behind bars" exploitation dramas -- like those cheesy Roger Corman movies Caged Heat and The Big Doll House -- then Bob Morgan's Envy the Cockroach, presented by dos chicas theater commune, should satisfy every lustful desire. The work starts out in documentary mode, with facts and figures from the Department of Justice detailing the alarmingly high percentages of physical, emotional and substance abuse that have led women to the big house. But it doesn't take long for Morgan's thoughtful, sympathetic study to switch gears and drive smack into his unique, patented S&M view of the world. His well-thought-out drama about three incarcerated women takes a nosedive in Act II as the outrages pile up -- and the more gruesome the better, it seems. Morgan tars his characters in 3D, surround sound and smell-o-rama. He doesn't know when to stop. The lives of Kaitlyn (Elizabeth Seabolt), Zoe (Jennifer Decker) and Jolene (Anne Zimmerman) have enough drama for three plays, yet at the conclusion, we don't understand them with any deeper insight than if we'd read about them in some dry psychological dissertation. Morgan shows us the salacious perversity of these women's lives in almost novelistic detail but only sketches in their hearts. The center is missing. He can clothe his problem play with missionary zeal, but in the end, Morgan would rather shock than reform. Through December 10. Free Range Studios, 1719 Live Oak, 832-283-0858.


http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2005-11-17/culture/encore.html


you know the play ron...
what do you think?

9:11 PM
Kid Ornery said...

and oh yeah, PG, it's pretty effin' cool...

;)

1:07 AM

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