[“...the strategic enumeration of the passions and the meetings.” – Alain Badiou, Rhapsody for the Theatre] I’ve numbered all the times when we’ve been passionate together, or when I’ve been, anyway, and you were at least complaisant. Sometimes, I thought you were just acting; always, I was. … [Read more...]
“Luck” / Memorable Fancies #545
11 December, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The down-on-his-luck actor played an actor down on his luck in a new play. The reviewers were unkind. I guess that was just more bad luck, said the down-on-his-luck actor. <END> If you liked this post, please tell your friends and share a comment here or in StumbleUpon, Reddit, Facebook, or other social websites. Subscriptions to this blog are available at www.amazon.com/author/terencekuch or at www.bit.ly/Fancies. – or you can just Follow this blog. You can also … [Read more...]
“The Audience Acts” / A Memorable Fancy #022
9 January, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The actors are very still. At first, the playgoers are patient. But then there are coughs, and wheezings and whisperings, shouts of disparagement, shifting and shuffling in the seats. The actors begin to move. They imitate the shuffling and shifting. They hear the whispering and shout the words. Someone in the audience gets up to leave. An actor exits right. <END> . NOW PUBLISHED from Ink Smith Publications, available on Amazon: Terence Kuch’s second novel, See/Saw - a sci-fi … [Read more...]
“The Actor Dreams – III” / A Memorable Fancy #074
13 August, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The actor dreams about the desperate gestures of the stage manager, the facial twitches of the other actors as they hint to him what his next lines are, the lines he has forgotten, the lines he never knew ... … [Read more...]
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