The Live-In's first skill-share workshop went off very smoothly Monday evening, with Sher Clain sharing some of her self-employment wisdom and experience from numerous self-employed business experiences with local theatre artists. Attendees learned what it means to be self-employed in the eyes of the government, and specifically what to do about that when tax season rolls around. Check back to this blog for a summary of tax tips for theatre artists from this workshop to be uploaded soon, as well as some links to useful tax advice websites.
Evan Brown spent Tuesday afternoon enlightening us to some of the seemingly mysterious aspects to technical theatre, providing a simple and effective approach to technical troubleshooting and problem solving. He also provided some much appreciated practical advice about how to most effectively work with other technicians, directors and producers while working on a project, all with his signature sense of humour - which made for an entertaining as well as educational skill-share.
Our play-reading series got off to a great start Tuesday evening with Emily Forrest's play Writing (a working title.). Kyle Gillis, Daniel Gervais, Ambyr Dunn and Steven Bourque read this piece, with direction by Jodey Reeves. Writing is about a troubled young woman Della who is simultaneously dealing with the death of her father and ex-lover, while trying to not screw things up with her new bartender (boy)friend. An interesting twist is introduced by the presence of the ghosts of her father and ex, who can see Della as she struggles with bouts of depression and alcoholism, but can only communicate to her via affecting the music played around her.
The play-readings continued Wednesday night, with a presentation of Hyperions' Wake by Steven Bourque. Mary Fay Coady, Asaf Rashid and Andrew Chandler (who graciously stepped in at the last minute to fill in for an actor came down with the flu) all performed this contemporary re-imagining of Friedrich Holderlin's classical piece of prose Hyperion with great sensitivity. A very useful contextual and audience feedback session ensued, and all seemed pleased with an entertaining and thought-provoking evening of critical peer evaluation discussion.
Stay tuned for more updates as The Live-In continues throughout November!
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