littlelotte

This was the path of my Footlights I...

First, I wanted to direct 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane. They wouldn't let me--"The actors in the department won't be able to handle it" and then "It's too long for an F1 anyway."

Okay...so I looked up a few others. Two more that I proposed was Beckett's Play and Arlene Hutton's I Dream Before I Take the Stand. Obviously, we all know which one won out with the staff. Silly them thought I Dream... was just a nice little piece of realism in a courtroom. Silly them apparently never really analyzed it in any way and realized it was also an interesting little slightly absurd and very surreal piece. It wasn't my best work as a director (it had been a while since I had done anything theatre by that point, so I was pretty rusty, and with all my issues fighting with the staff over my concept for the play I was extremely self-conscious about it), but I had a pretty good cast and they pulled it off beautifully. I got a BA on the project, and I think that was mainly because it wasn't exactly the best prompt book I've ever put together in my life (the prompt book is actually a fair amount of the grade for those projects).

Anyway...somebody posted Beckett's Play on YouTube in two parts. It reminded me of the above, and it includes M-Alan Rickman, W1-Kristin Scott Thomas, W2-Juliet Stevenson.

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdTjRumkT9k

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EkI1KS3uRA

The script is here:
http://www.drama21c.net/text/play.htm

As I've mentioned a number of times before, I've restarted research on Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis with the intent of someday directing it. To keep myself a bit more on-task in working on it I've decided to create a journal dedicated solely to my work with it. It's obviously pretty slim right now, as I've only recently started it, but my personal notebook is already ridiculously full of notes. Not everything will make it into the journal, as more personal and private (or just not entirely structured out) entries will likely be f'locked and filtered, if they even make it to the journal at all.

Feel free to browse or add if you would like. I know at least one of you on my flist has similar intentions with the play eventually :-)