SHOWTIME!

It's showtime!

Hell has frozen over and we have made it to opening week. (Did I mention that Texas however has not frozen over?) 

Update: Tracy Medberry has been scouring the city for this and that sundry as the just right thing for props, such as: squeaky gavel for a judge, blue and white pom poms (still not sure if she is using those), a pink dog leash and more critical things for the theatrical event.

Hopes have soared as high as the tempers. One evening, about three weeks after she not only let me quit the play, but then demanded that she be allowed to pursue it, she considered quiting. Play directing is hard on all. We have both stuck through. I've worked up the sound cues (sound design is NOT appropriate) and some cartoon movies using toon boom. The poster is on the main blogpage now. Will also get it up on the myspace page. 

The first night is Saturday....here we go!!!!

jbm

Reviews for Reality Check, the script

The script was sent around to a couple of people looking for feedback. The responses were interesting.


Reviews: Reality Check
John’s seventy year old father says:
"Where are you staging this piece of trash? …it is pretty crude. I'm not a critic by profession but I know what I don't like.
Dad
ps: Your mother wouldn’t even read it.”


And
The 32 year old playwrighting student:
“Great closet drama and clever social commentary.”
YOU BE THE JUDGE…

Frontera fest 2009, Blue Theatre

January 24, 2009 at 6:30pm
January 26, 2009 at 7:00pm
January 30, 2009 at 9:15pm
January 31, 2009 at 2:15pm

Tickets $10
www.hydeparktheatre.org
or at the door

Crazy Month

Howdy to those two blogger readers.

Fronterafest 2009 is coming soon!

When last we left, it was November and we were heavy into writing. Also, the play was cast and the rehearsals started. With the final re-write of the script rolling out at December 18th, it was about time for "break", if that is what you call the invasion of Christmas decorations, presents and relatives. (If that was break, I could use some work!)

Moving forward-set construction (minimal) starts this week. Tracy and John went to the Blue theatre for an open house and took many measurements. A couple of platforms have to be built and a couple of desks too.

Tracy scored some major free wood for set building, and is working on other pieces and some of the "interesting" props.

On the directing side, everyone is to be back memorized in January with the new heavy schedule. Blocking has been worked out and is more dynamic than ever.

All in all, doing very well.

Happy New years to readers everywhere.

-jm

Write time, write place

Good lord, this is as exciting as shooting drano into your veins!!!

Last evening Tracy Medberry and co-writer John, when deep into character exposition. We learned so many things about what and who Emma Melody is as Tracy Medberry answered questions about Emmas deepseated fears and her relationships. John took a crack at the coked up Miles Cartwright, and did a method acting dive like an acid trip. John was very successful at method channelling...it just wasn't Cartwright.
This was crazy, because John had never successfully done method personae. Losing himself in the undefined character, John had a heck of a time getting back.

The play is getting better, using Egri as a tutorial on character construction was suggested by a gentleman at the Austin Scriptworks meeting in August. Excellent information, excellent book.

TTYL
jbm

Write and Rewrite

REALITY CHECK

From the right brain of Tracy Medberry.

(Well this one is from the left brain of John)
Today we are banging away at Reality Check. One of the pre-re-write tasks is to flood the web, to get links to Tracy Medberry and to Reality Check the Play to start showing up on Google. This is why Tracy Medberry is appearing as explicit text so many times. That is one of the methods of getting Tracy Medberry to appear in google. You have write Tracy Medberry and Reality Check and Green Room Theatre over and over.

Re-writes today. Diving in as soon as John finishes writing Tracy Medberry ten million times and we are planning to go top to bottom and bring Miles Cartwright and Johnny to life. Emma Melody is headed for strong sophistocated, slutty and doggy fetish, while poor Brian Sanchez gets drunker and more tired. Pez-man Jones is likely to be every bit as scuzzy as he was at auditions. And let me tell you, those Bailiff Beauties are WOW. Hot and sexy! They'll tempt every man into anything ...er Everett Mann into anything!!!!

Be back real soon....

Judgement Day is coming.


Signoff:
Reality Check is a play entered into the 2009 Fronterafest.
Reality Check is written by John and Tracy Medberry.
Reality Check if fucking COOL.

REALITY CHECK

Reality Check writing the checks...auditions are over...for the moment

Welcome to Reality Check!
Auditions for "Reality Check" are complete!!
The cast is AWESOME!!!

Tracy Medberry co-writer and director of Reality Check from her virginal company Green Room Theatre as part of the Fronterafest 2009 Production is breaking all the laws.

Tracy Medberry has written Reality Check to address the injustice in the justice system, the courts and capital punishment. The play is written as a gameshow that is set in a courtroom, but, as she says, "This ain't no Price is Right". Follow along with the thrills, chills and sex as Judge Miles Cartwright lambasts and weighs in on all events, including life, liberty and execution!


Synopsis: The play is a parody game show centering on the fallacies of the justice system, where one lucky player is lead to believe he will win fabulous prizes but ends up the victim of the Justice System. This is a very over the top piece that may be rude and border on slight insanity. There will be four performances sometime between January 20th-February 1st. As part of the Fronterafest 2009 production.

REALITY CHECK a Tracy Medberry Play

Austin, TX