Friday, September 23, 2011

"What are those leafy plants over there?" "I believe those are called Trees."

The question is, with six Shakespearean actors crammed into one van for 4 hours, how many ridiculous quotes can you walk out with? A lot. Later in this tour, I hope to share a couple of my favorite things that have been said in an American Shakespeare Center van (the publicly acceptable ones, unfortunately). But let me say this, a dude can start getting delerious in those vans. More often than not, giggly and absurd arises before frustration or annoyance does (thus far) which is a very very good thing.

We are four shows into our tour, and I already believe that I will love life on the road. Good things about road life:

1. Per diem. Cash-money in yo pocket.
2. Somebody gets paid to clean up after you.
3. We played a town with 1200 people. There were 300 people in the theatre. 1/4 of an entire town in Virginia came to see Shakespeare, and they loved it. This gives immense hope to the Theatre and civilization. 4. High schoolers and college kids that want to learn from you. And happy children that want autographs.
5. Hollins University
6. Awesome photography opportunity
7. Car games
8. Counting the number of Shoney's in Virginia.
9. Workshops!
10. Getting to see a new Theater space every day and figuring out how to adjust to it.
11. Glenn Schudel
12. Hot tubs


Things that are not good:

1. Powdered egg mcmuffys from hotel "breakfast".
2. Questionable drunken folk that talk to you about their planning stages of a bank robbery on the front porch of a Holiday Inn Express.
3. You don't get a chance to talk with the purty girls that you get to meet as much as you'd like. Because you just loaded in/did a show/loaded out/want to sleep/have to leave the next morning.
4. Trying to keep track of card keys/keys to vans/keys to housing/keys to life/your personal home keys/Florida keys/ keykeykeykeys.
5. Living in fear of leaving something in a state you may never return to.
6. Car sickness/ Eating Chinese Buffet and then sitting in a car for hours.
7. Gas station prices for nourishment.
8. Shoney's
9. Finding leftovers in your hotel room that you would have rather lived without.
10. Missing Austin
11. Missing Family, and leaving phone charager back in Staunton.

Awesome places we just played at:
1. Lawrenceville, VA (population 1200 somethin, happy child standing on a chair, discovered that we were not in possision of the Mandolin so Jake had to do impromptu Guitar and Banjo work)
2. Cedar Bluff, VA (awesome high schooler talk-back, and lotsa free pizza, I sprained my hand again, Stephanie accidently closed her head in a door in a hilarious manner)
3. Roanoke, VA (Hollins University. All girl liberal arts college. AWESOME people. New friends. AWESOME times. Lampshades.)
4. KilMarnock, VA (Population 1200 something, 300 something people in the theatre, Kids sitting on stage, gigilly Catholic School girls are amazing to do asides to)

This is a succinct way to get some info out quickly. List format will probably appear more often unless I am inspired to actually write some jiggity junka junka.

Love from the Road,
Dola

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