That’s A Wrap
What an incredible five weeks it has been. Since I announced on my blog on April 20 that my new one-man show, Egolution, would be debuting, I’ve been busy with rehearsal and production schedules. Learning lines, re-writing the script, blocking the show, and promoting the event, has taken the bulk of my time. The run of the show wrapped up on Saturday night and I could not be more pleased with the outcome.
The majority of my thanks goes to Karen Goerzen for directing the show. Her additions to the script and staging of Egolution are too numerous to count. She forced me to take a script that was in a strange area between stand-up comedy and theatre, and turn it into theatre. Thanks, Karen!
Another huge kudos and thanks goes to Cory Mack for being my “partner in crime” for the past weekend of workshopping our new shows. We worked together to put the weekend on and her show, The Goose Queen of Kindersley, was a treat to watch every night. It’s so great to work with talented, kind, and funny people like Cory.
Both Cory and I are hugely grateful to everyone that made it to the show and especially to those that took the time to write down some feedback for us. (Well… almost everyone that wrote down feedback… sometimes it was unhelpful – even hurtful – or strange.) We’ve read all the comments and will be making changes to the scripts/performances in the comings months. Thanks to our ability to add a fifth show, both of us will be submitting our performances for next year’s round of The Canadian Comedy Awards in the category of “One Person Show”.
There were a couple of people that were also at the performances every night helping to run the shows. Our stage manager, Ian Wilson, did a stellar job, as did our Front of House Manager, Marcia Lane.
Continuing in the “no man is an island” theme of this post: I need to thank (once again) a few of my friends that helped make the show possible:
- Zoë Klintberg for posing as my girlfriend in front of a photographer for a few minutes
- Heather Schellenberg for being that photographer
- Russell Bowers for his help with the sound design
- and Andrew Delong for helping to hang lights during load-in
Several people have been asking when (and if) the show will be re-mounted… and it will in some fashion. I’m going to ignore the script for about a month (maybe write the first draft of a completely different show) and then come back to it with fresh eyes.
A photo album was created for the show on my Facebook Page. You don’t have to join the page or even have a Facebook account to see the album.
Ego-Maniacal Driving
My summer is slowly starting to fill up with various projects and I’ll continue to keep you posted on this blog with all of the updates. Until then; another a HUGE thanks to everyone that was involved with the debut of Egolution and to everyone that came to see what I’ve been working on.
