{"id":19625,"date":"2018-04-13T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=19625"},"modified":"2018-04-13T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:17:37","slug":"father-jack-production-diary-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2018\/04\/13\/father-jack-production-diary-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Jack Production Diary: Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>We opened <cite>Lughnasa<\/cite> last night. I think it went well\u2014no obvious technical problems; none of the actors dried; there was no blood. It could go better in a few ways, but on the whole, a good first night.\r\n<p>I think I am, on the whole, happy with my Jack. At least in the sense that I don&#8217;t have things that I want to do with him that I have been unable to pull off. It&#8217;s a bit outside my wheelhouse, I think, so it is nice to think that I could do the thing. Of course, I don&#8217;t really know if it is a successful performance, since I don&#8217;t get to watch it. One of the things that is frustrating about theater, I&#8217;m afraid. At best, you get to find out if the audience liked it, or maybe if some few individuals who have similar taste in theater liked it. But I don&#8217;t <i>feel<\/i> like it&#8217;s an unsuccessful performance.\r\n<p>On the other hand, I don&#8217;t ever feel like I am giving an unsuccessful interpretation when the show is up. Part of the process, I think, for me, is convincing myself that what I&#8217;m doing is working. Even for the most frustrating show I&#8217;ve done, when I never felt I liked my interpretation of Jaques at all, I still felt that I was doing what the director asked me to and doing it well. I don&#8217;t know how I would go on stage if I thought I was lousy at the time I was doing it. Of course, after the whole thing is over, I can have second thoughts and doubts and such, but it seems important to me to go on-stage with (perhaps misplaced) confidence in my role.\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger gets a couple of laughs, anyway, so that's all right, Best Beloved, d'y'see?","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theeyater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19626,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625\/revisions\/19626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}