Chicago Update

Not really much to report from me. Still doing the Chicago Dramatists administrative thing a couple days a week. I deal mostly with rentals. Setting up who rents the space when, booking times, letting people in to see the rehearsal rooms or the theatre. I work later in the days so I get to see the teachers come in and listen to the first parts of some of the play writing classes before I leave for the day which is neat. I'm getting to see the inside look of theatre promotion and management. Just continuing my journey to know all the aspects behind creating a theatre company ;)

I did a play reading the other day. It was a group of past and present Northwestern students who had a new play and they actually wanted actors to read it instead of themselves. Natalie was already part of it so she drafted me last minute when they needed a 4th actor.
It was really fun. The talk back afterwards actually kinda blew my mind. It was like a talk back like in a rehearsal of a play(bringing up problems, parts that didn't make sense, what really happened/ they were thinking, previous events). Except the notes were for the writer and he could just change whatever he wanted in the play. Take the good ideas and mold them in to the play.. It just felt bizarre, because usually most of the questions were things actors and directors had to deal with and answer for themselves or the audience would have to make decisions on what really happened. For example: before the story, did the married man just kiss this other woman or have sex with her? The playwright can write in to make clear/define what happened now, while if it was a finished play we as actors/directors would decide ourselves. It was just a new enlightening look at making plays.