Hirsch's Log
Iricus and Ilia took off around 10 or so this morning,
driving the flats, and anything else that went into the truck (some folk sent things
like Aldith’s needlework tools, to avoid problems at the airport - needles, scissors,
etc. ...).
Some of us went into town to attend the first workshop,
with most of the rest of
the troupe coming in for the second workshop. Aldith stayed back at the Condos because
she needed some down-time. While she was at the condo, she cleaned up ours, vacuuming
the floors, cleaning up in general, and had a long talk with her mother (who
called here, as we can’t make long-distance calls out).
Ernesto Maldenado’s workshop was interesting, but it
wasn’t as useful for SCA purposes, as it would have been for other troupes that
had already left, such as Commedia dell’Carte. The workshop was really a discussion
about performances at Renaissance Faires. Bonefinder found it interesting, but
he’s got experience with one-man shows at Civil War re-enactment events and
Ren Faires – most of the rest of the folk at the workshop were either SCA or
really had no real need for the workshop. Oh well. It wasn’t a bad workshop,
it just wasn’t something that was useful for us.
Olly Crick’s second workshop concentrated on writing
scenarios. He broke folk into groups of four or five, and after discussing the
process, we created the first act of a scenario. Then we walked through that
first act, and got critiqued both by Olly and by our fellow attendees. We
were allowed to stay until around 5, rather than only having 2 hours for the
workshop we had 3, which was really appreciated.
When we were done, we said our goodbyes to the
folk from I Sebastiani who were still here, and to everyone else who were
at the workshop. Then the troupe split into groups – some of us came back
to the condos, others went to go see the famous “Austin Bats” – there are
millions of them apparently under one of the bridges, and there’s a small park
there where you can observe when they wake up and come out in a huge cloud
around dusk. Those who saw it said it was a pretty astounding experience.
There were performances this evening, but except
for Ernesto Maldenado, they were ones we had seen before. So, we decided to
blow off the performances. This wasn’t any kind of an insult to the performers,
but most of us have been running on less than our normal amounts of sleep,
and we needed some serious “down-time”.
Wulfric did a nice dinner for those of us who
came back to the condos. After, we sat around “yeowing” (talking, insulting
each other, the usual); and somewhere along the line we started critiquing
parts of our performances, and we did some minor script-doctoring for the
first part of the script. Seamus wrote things into Wulfric's script, so I
will have to either borrow that, or get him to send me the changes. We didn’t
do anything truly exciting to the script, just an attempt to tighten the
opening scene a bit.
Before going to bed, we checked with the
airlines ... turns out the “Party Flight” got cancelled. Figures.
Juan's Log
Iricus and Dawn left early this morning. Going to Disneyland. I’m tempted
to smuggle myself back in the truck. Oh well.
The only thing we did today was the final part
of the Olly Crick lecture.
It was really good and covered writing techniques
for creating scenarios.
Basic process is:
See photos of Commedia dell'Carte's final performance (with the cart)