I've had another chance to photograph actors behind the scenes as they prepare for their roles. In the most recent case, is the cast and crew for "Jeeves Intervenes," a British-inspired manner play about the fits and starts of relationships influenced by a hired hand of a bon vivant playboy...Jeeves the man-servant.
Actors at the The Theater in the Round do a terrific job working for just the right pitch and tone to their roles. They work hard for weeks, usually 3 hours a night in rehearsal and countless hours memorizing their roles or gathering their costumes. In this play, the actors have to also adopt English accents and in one case, Bertie (played by Aaron Henry) he has to have a cockney twist to it at one point that's well done.
The Beyond the Arena project goes well. I think the visual idea has been well established now with a few photographs that give us a look at how the actors work. But, I still feel the need to work hard to interpret what it is like to work so hard. And, I still don't have what is considered an "establishing" shot or a "closer" shot to the story. I think that'll come as I keep doing the work. This is going to take a year or more until we have a body of work that tells the story of acting and directing at the theater.
Right now, it's just fun to be around these actors and make some small contribution to the art form.
RPW
Actors at the The Theater in the Round do a terrific job working for just the right pitch and tone to their roles. They work hard for weeks, usually 3 hours a night in rehearsal and countless hours memorizing their roles or gathering their costumes. In this play, the actors have to also adopt English accents and in one case, Bertie (played by Aaron Henry) he has to have a cockney twist to it at one point that's well done.
The Beyond the Arena project goes well. I think the visual idea has been well established now with a few photographs that give us a look at how the actors work. But, I still feel the need to work hard to interpret what it is like to work so hard. And, I still don't have what is considered an "establishing" shot or a "closer" shot to the story. I think that'll come as I keep doing the work. This is going to take a year or more until we have a body of work that tells the story of acting and directing at the theater.
Right now, it's just fun to be around these actors and make some small contribution to the art form.
RPW