Positive Feedback

Well, we've had two representations of the staged reading of True Colours and the feedback we've been getting has been excellent. It helps that we have a little discussion session after the performance so that the show can be workshopped even further. A lot of people said they were impressed with the quality of the actors. When they first heard that it was going to be a "reading," they just thought that it would be, well, "reading." But it seems that we manage to make it very interesting, which is good to know.

My director gave me a thank you card, as he did for everyone in the cast, before our first run. It was full of super positive and encouraging feedback. He thinks I should get down to Toronto because I would definately "make it." :)

Also, after last nights run, I guy I had auditioned for last September came up to see me. He said that I was very good and that he still had my resume. He gave me his card so that I could send him a more updated copy and he seemed very interested in casting me in something. Needless to say I was very flattered. In the production in my head, he would have been Steven Spielberg, but hey, I'll take what I can get. Besides, who's to say he's not the next Steven Spielberg? You never know. Even Spielberg started by doing independent films.

I'm excited. When stuff like this happens it helps shake away all those doubts that always creep up on actors at one point or another. If you're an actor, you know what I'm talking about. The "doubts." The am-I-really-cut-out-for-this doubts. The aill-I-find-more-work-after-this doubts. Actors are people who are filled with doubts and we need our egos stroked from time to time. But it has to be done by strangers. It seems that when we get positive feedback from family and friends, we just take it as them being "nice." Like all those really bad singers on the Idol shows who have friends who tell them they can sing. What the hell kinda friends are those? In many ways, I'm lucky to have someone like Darcy who isn't the type to bullshit you when you want a strait answer. I'm also glad for a lot of my theatre contacts who are able to critique a performance objectively. However, I guess that's why actors are so sensitive to critics because they have no reason to like you.

Anyway, there's one more showing of True Clolours this Friday at 7:30pm at the Alumni Auditorium in the University Centre of the U of O. Try and catch it if you can. I think it's definately worth it.


Oh, and Steven, if you're reading this, call me!