Live noise-grill-wagon-podracer set at Mudding Man 2023 on D Street. Special thanks to camp Andas #andas #roesingape.
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Acting III Dutchman Monologue
In this monologue, I finally break out of character after being subjected to Lula’s insidious and subtle racism for the length of the play. Out of me comes an explosion of the fundamental confusion of a black man accepted into white culture. As this is more a hyper-realistic than a realistic play, it is necessary to look at the entire piece to understand the basic motivations behind the movements. Unbeknownst to me, Lula’s entire conversation with me is a trap for young black men who exhibit my very type of enraged confusion, or, who can’t deal with Lula’s type of subdued and hidden racism. Of course, this trap is how the author perceives the white man wanting to deal with any type of black strength. In this my final monologue, I reveal my true feelings, which I had held in, throughout the play’s more polite and flirtatious dialogue. At the end of this speech, I am promptly murdered. So what I believe I am doing is finally having enough and calling out this stupid white woman on all her stupidity and her misconceptions of black people, especially myself, revealing the true anger that lies within me and my ‘race’. What is really happening though is that she has called me out on the anger she knew was there, as an excuse to kill me, thereby justifying all the anger I had in me to begin with, which on first hearing one might find to be extreme.
Read the rest in the book…
Buy the Book!
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Acting III Journal 3
To a large extent, modern methods of acting tend to deal with the internal experience, as it was largely ignored before our era. Communicating in archetypes was de facto in western culture for thousands of years. The further back you go, the more reliance on archetypes you find. But one must realize, that also to a large extent, most acting in today’s society is still archetype based. Few of us grew up watching high drama. We were raised on cartoons and network television, rife with stereotypes and archetypes, sometimes mistaken for plain bad acting. But maybe the acting wasn’t so bad, villains were villains, and heroes were heroes. Internal struggle was not needed. But the high drama, the ‘real’ acting of our modern world, is squarely laid on the foundation of internal pretense. Despite numerous exceptions, the underlying advertisement for modern acting is “The more you can fool yourself you are other than, the more we will believe you”. Of course there is a limit to how much self fooling is allowed. I haven’t heard of anyone yet supporting self induced schizophrenia as an acting style.
So what am I trying to say? I dunno. Cause sometimes archetypes look like emotional memory and vice versa. The needed levels of each vary from person to person and piece to piece to ensure success. When it comes down to it, some get it right, and some don’t. And after that, no one is even consistently right or wrong, and the archetypes keep shifting, morphing, and falling in and out of favor.
Read the rest in the book…
Buy the Book!