life or something like it
Aug. 6th, 2010 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaydeefalls
I don't post much about my real life here, mostly because it's just boring. Um, except for the part where it's kind of hectic and insane most of the time, but that's business as usual for freelance theater professionals. (And it still kind of thrills me to realize that, yeah, my career is in professional theater. LIVE THE DREAM. Which is good, because I don't sleep much, so I don't get much dreaming done at night.) So, yeah, yesterday I went from my day job at the Big Gay NPO straight to the first production meeting for the show I will be stage managing this fall, and straight from there to opening night for the show I'm currently lighting designer on. This is not an atypical day in my life.
But I feel like I'm going to be posting LOTS AND LOTS about the fall show, because I am so excited about it right now, after that production meeting. It's a play by a young female Korean-American playwright that deconstructs Asian-American identity in all kinds of increasingly comedic and violent ways, and the way the director discussed it at the meeting -- OH MY GOD, working on this show is going to be intellectual porn for me, basically. Racial identity and gender stereotyping and unpacking white privilege and asdfkjlasdjklhfsa I cannot handle how relevant this is to my interests. I will mostly be keeping my mouth shut because 1. I am the stage manager, my job is to deal with the technical and organizational aspects of the production, not the literary/intellectual; and 2. I am white, it is not my turn to speak. But this is so -- I have never experienced this sort of discussion outside of fandom or academia, but this is what theater can DO, what it's here for, not just to entertain but to challenge assumptions and make people think, and being a part of a production that (hopefully) will do that is...oh, this is why I went into this career in the first place.
So, that.
Also in a fandom happy place for a couple of reasons -- weird how sometimes everything happens all at once. One thing I won't talk about yet because I don't want to jinx myself. But also, THANK YOU to whoever nominated a couple of my fics to the Children of Time awards! I'm not a big fan of fandom awards for a variety of reasons, but it's still nice to be thought of. :)
But I feel like I'm going to be posting LOTS AND LOTS about the fall show, because I am so excited about it right now, after that production meeting. It's a play by a young female Korean-American playwright that deconstructs Asian-American identity in all kinds of increasingly comedic and violent ways, and the way the director discussed it at the meeting -- OH MY GOD, working on this show is going to be intellectual porn for me, basically. Racial identity and gender stereotyping and unpacking white privilege and asdfkjlasdjklhfsa I cannot handle how relevant this is to my interests. I will mostly be keeping my mouth shut because 1. I am the stage manager, my job is to deal with the technical and organizational aspects of the production, not the literary/intellectual; and 2. I am white, it is not my turn to speak. But this is so -- I have never experienced this sort of discussion outside of fandom or academia, but this is what theater can DO, what it's here for, not just to entertain but to challenge assumptions and make people think, and being a part of a production that (hopefully) will do that is...oh, this is why I went into this career in the first place.
So, that.
Also in a fandom happy place for a couple of reasons -- weird how sometimes everything happens all at once. One thing I won't talk about yet because I don't want to jinx myself. But also, THANK YOU to whoever nominated a couple of my fics to the Children of Time awards! I'm not a big fan of fandom awards for a variety of reasons, but it's still nice to be thought of. :)
