Artistic Impulse
About 15 years ago I directed and produce 3 plays by Franz Xaver Kroetz in Vancouver BC. Michi’s Blood, Farmyard and Men’s Business. After which I got sucked into the world of Arts Administration. Years passed and I took a head long plunge into corporate America. It wasn’t until just recently that I’ve had the urge to direct again.
My favorite part about directing had always been the initial developing of an interpretation, the analyzing of text, the creative imaginings of what it should look and feel like. I always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with the actual directing and producing. The exhaustive process of trying to communicate my imaginings to others and let them elaborate and evolve those into a living piece.
The plays that I choose to work with by Kroetz all had to do in one way or another with the theme of how cruelty is the behavior of those who have no language for their emotions. I was obviously working out my own struggle for emotional language through these projects.
But as with everything themes change as one goes on and I’ve decided to revisit a desire that i had for another trilogy. (Apparently I have to do things in threes it’s just a thing I have) So I’ve got my index cards lined up, my colored pens and sketch book at the ready and have decided to start working. It may never get pasted the notebook stage but at least it will be something. I might even figure out what themes I’m working on at the moment that drives me to these works again. I have the feeling it won’t be as overt as in the past. Alas Mr. Kroetz it is not your plays I’m turning to this time. But the those of
Federico Garcia Lorca. I think it will be Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba. My ideas may never make it to production but it beats watching reruns on T.V.
I wonder if in the dream I mentioned last time Leonard and I were talking about Mr. Lorca, a particular favorite of his.
My favorite part about directing had always been the initial developing of an interpretation, the analyzing of text, the creative imaginings of what it should look and feel like. I always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with the actual directing and producing. The exhaustive process of trying to communicate my imaginings to others and let them elaborate and evolve those into a living piece.
The plays that I choose to work with by Kroetz all had to do in one way or another with the theme of how cruelty is the behavior of those who have no language for their emotions. I was obviously working out my own struggle for emotional language through these projects.
But as with everything themes change as one goes on and I’ve decided to revisit a desire that i had for another trilogy. (Apparently I have to do things in threes it’s just a thing I have) So I’ve got my index cards lined up, my colored pens and sketch book at the ready and have decided to start working. It may never get pasted the notebook stage but at least it will be something. I might even figure out what themes I’m working on at the moment that drives me to these works again. I have the feeling it won’t be as overt as in the past. Alas Mr. Kroetz it is not your plays I’m turning to this time. But the those of
Federico Garcia Lorca. I think it will be Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba. My ideas may never make it to production but it beats watching reruns on T.V.
I wonder if in the dream I mentioned last time Leonard and I were talking about Mr. Lorca, a particular favorite of his.
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