The audition ads are doing better than ever before — the revamped site, along with the fact we’ve got four shows up and running, must be catching more peoples’ interest.

Programs are finished for all the shows, and should be up in a few days, along with some graphics I did when bored and too lazy to walk to the bar.

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We’ve got a good possibility on filling the lead role. We’ll probably audition him in the first week of March, and if things work out, he can begin on a script where he is onstage 95% of the show.

And, to keep things as much like an actual theater as possible, I’ve been using the new iWork to create Programs for all the shows.

The plan now is Sebastian (the role) auditions in the first week of March, then waiting out the Houston Shakespeare Festival until the end of the month. Then we begin advertising for the auditions in earnest, which should take place the week of May 12.

Today I posted audition ads on all the online acting sites, and designed a poster for campuses, coffee shops, etc. We already received one response, so hopefully we will have the Sebastian role taken care of soon. The play is so long, I want the actor to have a script in his hands for as long as possible — experience has shown that we usually push our luck when it comes to being off-book on the shoot day, and SR is simply too word-heavy to take any unnecessary risks.

Four plays, God’s Own Cartoon Anvil, Writing a Woman, Confession…(A Hell of a Thing), and Once Removed are produced, recorded and available for anyone to see whenever they like. The initial work has begun, as of today, on the last of the five I wrote in a period between 2000 and 2004; a period of inexplicable productivity probably. . .no, assuredly, brought about by the nature of those years, and for that reason, I do not expect to achieve such sustained output again. It almost couldn’t be worth it. Anyone who thinks creativity and Art is not fueled best by the less pleasant aspects of life either knows not of what they speak, or is producing some tame stuff. What success I have had has been to the greatest degree predicated upon, in terms of modern mythology, the Dark Side of the Force. But, perversely, watching it all come together, and the feeling of something reaching near the potential one sees, leaves no room for complaint.

The fifth, Sebastian, Right, is a direct result of the third. CAHOAT was the most difficult of the five, in ways I never saw coming. Real anger, the kind that manifests itself physically and metaphysically, is a remarkable thing, and something that a person must truly experience to come closer to understanding Man as a whole. After CAHOAT was completed, I wanted to write something funny, as it is more than likely the only thing I have ever written absolutely devoid of humor of any kind. As will be clear in about a year, the result was pitch-dark humor, where the characters never acknowledge the irony, absurdity, pun or wit that drives it. It is, as I write this, far too long — I indulged myself in the process, and now will have to find ways to remove material I like, but know isn’t absolutely necessary.

Thus far, we have a new director signed on. Heath has signed on — given I wrote the role with him in mind, this works well. Taavi and Sam are testing the waters of their respective schedules; Taavi has to travel for work, and Sam is hoping for a part in the Houston Shakespeare Festival. Hopefully, both will be able to take part (literally), as both are perfectly suited for their respective roles.