the nebulosity function

[Howard Beye]

hello to all the gang from lethbridge,
    A fellow student and i are doing Oleanna here at the university as
an independent study project. a couple of things first off john's
disjointed phone call's are very difficult to learn has anybody found a
trick for that. Second we are rehearsing in whatever space we can find,
classrooms, offices and hallways each space seems to alter the tenor of
the rehearsal the more cramped the space the more tension there seems to
be in the relationship between carol and John. It is very interesting it
reminds me of a class that was held here last year called applied
theatre. students essentially finding theatre in taped conversations
with average people or through interpreting poetry and photographs. one
performance was done in the corner of the black box theatre. we arrived
and the only light in the room was over in the far corner. the set
pieces were a ladder and a bench. There weren't any chairs set up for
the audience either so we had to find a chair and then decide where to
sit. being brave student thespians we put our chairs as close to the
action as we could so that, with our chairs and ourselves, we had walled
off this corner of the room which now was a triangle approximately five
meters on all sides. into the space marched the ten or so class members
and proceeded to wow us with an amazing forty five minutes of theatre.
    talk to me about acting space i have heard of performances in horse
stalls sans horse, in cobwebby basements, there was a show that a couple
of people did in a van and it was parked outside the calgary center for
the performing arts at last years playrites festival. unfortunately i
wasn't able to see the show. the assistant dean of the theatre arts
division here at the U of L, was chiding me only last month that the
students did not make more use of the different space that was available
in and around our campus. i have to agree with her i am stuck in the
gotta have the lights and sound rut. how do you encourage your students
to see past some of that.
    i always got something to say peter but i like to listen too and
with two hundred and sixty members of the list that would be one a day
multiple thespians for almost the whole year in fact if we just count
work days..... the possibilities are endless.
howard
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