The Silence

Mr. Ingmar Bergman is dead.


He passed away at his home on the island of Fårö, Sweden, where he made many of his great films, in the early morning of July 30, 2007, at the age of 89.


He directed many many films, several of them masterpieces of the medium. Perhaps most iconic and remembered are his two 1957 films (my god, he made these in the SAME YEAR?) Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal.


My own personal favorites of his - very important films to me, and not always as respected as "the big ones" - are the late-60s quartet of Persona, Hour of the Wolf, Shame, and The Passion of Anna.


If you haven't seen these, please do. They're worth it.


He was also, of course, a director of theatre. I am familiar with his work there only by reputation, but it's quite a reputation.


So much for hoping for one more surprise from the man, who had supposedly retired, but kept popping up with new work every now and then.

The Other Side of Necropolis

NECROPOLIS #1&2: World Gone Wrong/Worth Gun Willed opens in five days. The cards should be here tomorrow. Sometime this week, I have to find a time (hah!) to go around and leave them in good places and good spaces.


I already posted the more interesting front, but here's the back:





Final card is 8.5 x 5.5" (and therefore legible), with glossy front and matte reverse.

Today, work all day on the soundtracks, then, at 6.00 pm, three hours of Slumberland rehearsal (and record one last bit of the show), then two hours of Worth Gun Willed rehearsal.

Tomorrow morning, record the last pieces of Succubus, then work on the soundtracks, then 60 minutes of World Gone Wrong rehearsal, 90 minutes of Hobo Got Too High rehearsal, then 90 minutes of Succubus rehearsal.

Wednesday, rehearsals all day from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm with different individuals/groups from different shows (Jessica Savage gets the big block of 90 minutes to rehearse bits of all three shows she's in), then the first big World Gone Wrong/Worth Gun Willed rehearsal from 7-11.00 pm, with 18 out of 21 cast members (best we can do until tech on Saturday.

Thursday, daytime left open so Berit and I can actually do tech stuff, etc. 7-11.00 pm, Succubus rehearsal, including filming one of the "porno" movies featuring half the cast.

Friday, rehearsals all day from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm with different individuals/groups from different shows, including a big block where we film the other "porno" movie with the other half of the Succubus cast. Then Hobo tech from 7-11 pm.

Saturday, we have the whole cast for World Gone Wrong/Worth Gun Willed from 12 noon to 6.00 pm for cleanup, cue-to-cue, and tech/dress run. Then break. Then we open the show at 8 pm. Brief pause, then The Hobo Got Too High opens at 10.30 pm.

Then, Berit and I get up and go to a wedding on Sunday. If we can get back to NYC in time, we rehearse that night, either Succubus or Slumberland or both (probably just Succubus).

Monday night, we again rehearse either Succubus or Slumberland or both (probably just Slumberland).

Tuesday, we tech Kiss Me, Succubus, At the Mountains of Slumberland from 6.00 pm until done.

Wednesday, we open that bill at 8.00 pm.

Then, we're running. And we're fine.

Then August is over, and Berit and I go collapse in Portland, ME for several weeks.


But right now, I have work to do, and shouldn't be futzing with my blog, except that sometimes, you do need a break in the work, just to stay sane.


See you on Friday, with a Random Whatever list . . .

What the Artist Has Done to Me

Oh, one last thing I forgot . . .


Just wanted to post this Little Nemo panel, which I was determined to use somewhere in the promo stuff for the NECROPOLIS shows.


Berit felt, and I agreed, that it wasn't right as the main image for Slumberland on the card, but when I mentioned how much I REALLY wanted this on the card, she said we could get it on the back somewhere.


But when I got to see the back this morning, it wasn't there. Berit says it just didn't work. I was unhappy at first, but she's right. It doesn't go there. So she said, "put it on the blog." And here it is.