Scanning Friday

A couple of things about the photos below:

1. I was in a play (a couple different versions of it over the years) and it told the story of a couple, already on the rocks obviously – who are up late at night, with the rain pouring down (neat effect on the window)… and over the course of the play, some things come out about the past of my character (or, more specifically, something her grandmother did during the Holocaust) that pretty much destroys the relationship between the couple. It was meaty, juicy stuff – and I loved doing it.

2. I did not, however, love the haircut that I got a day before we opened the first production (photos below). I was so upset about the hair (the uneven badly-done layers, the strange swoop of bang in the front) that I actually cried in the chair at the salon. I wouldn’t have cared so much but I knew that the haircut would now live on forever in the photos of the production. And so it has.

3. I love these photos because the photographer took them during a production, first of all – not staged scenes during a special photo call with no audience, which sometimes can have an artificial posed look to them. Here, we are actually in the process of doing the show, and it certainly makes a difference in what the photos look like. Also, the dude was in the damn back row, so as to be unobtrusive to the rest of the audience- but look how close he got in his zoom. Love that. I like that closeup one of us on the couch – because it looks (to me) as though we are having a private conversation, but we’re in front of a live audience. That’s the way it should be. But kudos to photographer-man for capturing the moment.

The theatre was not huge, by the way, but neither was it small. He managed to be everywhere, nowhere, unobtrusive, and also competent – all at the same time. I want a zoom lens like that.