Here are the Shooting Babar and Celebrity MySpace videos that we premiered at Just Say Nosedive!... Hope you enjoy.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Thursday, March 01, 2007
oh I wish it would rain....
I’m angry. Frustrated. At loose ends.
And I’m not sure why.
Everything in my life is lining up quite well at the moment. Nervous-Boy is still riding high from last year, and is getting a new burst of attention due to its inclusion in the upcoming Plays and Playwrights anthology. We’re a couple of days away from starting rehearsals on Peepshow, for which we have a very solid script and an incredible slate of actors confirmed. Just Say Nosedive, although not a huge moneymaker, was a hell of a lot of fun for everyone in attendance and has spurred us to focus even more on video sketches. We’ve confirmed that we’ll be doing both Blood Brothers and Carol this year, meaning 2007 is going to be one of Nosedive’s most productive years. My day job has been very light on actual work for the past week or so, allowing me plenty of time to work on pre-production for Peepshow. I’m dating an incredibly beautiful, intelligent, funny woman who I’m crazy about. I’m not rich, but I ain’t broke either.
I feel ungrateful complaining about anything, given how well things are going for me. I should feel fortunate: A lot of my friends are going through very rough times right now…
And yet… and yet…
It’s probably just the season.
And I’m not sure why.
Everything in my life is lining up quite well at the moment. Nervous-Boy is still riding high from last year, and is getting a new burst of attention due to its inclusion in the upcoming Plays and Playwrights anthology. We’re a couple of days away from starting rehearsals on Peepshow, for which we have a very solid script and an incredible slate of actors confirmed. Just Say Nosedive, although not a huge moneymaker, was a hell of a lot of fun for everyone in attendance and has spurred us to focus even more on video sketches. We’ve confirmed that we’ll be doing both Blood Brothers and Carol this year, meaning 2007 is going to be one of Nosedive’s most productive years. My day job has been very light on actual work for the past week or so, allowing me plenty of time to work on pre-production for Peepshow. I’m dating an incredibly beautiful, intelligent, funny woman who I’m crazy about. I’m not rich, but I ain’t broke either.
I feel ungrateful complaining about anything, given how well things are going for me. I should feel fortunate: A lot of my friends are going through very rough times right now…
And yet… and yet…
It’s probably just the season.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Meme-tastic
In a tansparent attempt to get me to update this blog with, well, anything, Piddimus has hit me with a meme.
1) Find the nearest book
2) Open to page 123
3) Type lines 6-8 of said book
4) Tag three others.
I'm carrying Neil Gaiman around as well these days, Smoke and Mirrors to be specific. Here goes (from the story/poem Queen of Knives):
"develop your film, or build a house for dolls./(The dolls house was my mother's. We still had it at my house;/shabby and old, it sat out in the grass, all rained on and forgot.)"
"All rained on and forgot"... I like that. I'll tag James, Mac and Dan... we'll see if they notice.
1) Find the nearest book
2) Open to page 123
3) Type lines 6-8 of said book
4) Tag three others.
I'm carrying Neil Gaiman around as well these days, Smoke and Mirrors to be specific. Here goes (from the story/poem Queen of Knives):
"develop your film, or build a house for dolls./(The dolls house was my mother's. We still had it at my house;/shabby and old, it sat out in the grass, all rained on and forgot.)"
"All rained on and forgot"... I like that. I'll tag James, Mac and Dan... we'll see if they notice.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
"We don't need a map to keep this show on the road."
I enjoy the way Piddimus mapped the Birth-Death-Resurrection structure to the theatre/creation process in his latest blog entry. It’s interesting that you say that there’s nothing pleasant about the Death part of the process. I actually disagree… for me almost all of the joy in creation is in the execution of it (no pun intended).
I find pre-production (Birth) to be satisfying in a detached sort of way – trying to make solid decisions to ensure a strong production, finding the right cast, space etc. In the end, the success or failure of the work you do in pre-prod will define the scope of what you’re able to accomplish with the work.
Performance (Rebirth) is the least satisfying stage for me. It’s (of course) gratifying to have people enjoy your show, and every decision made in the first two stages must work toward and support the audiences eventual experience of it, but in terms of actual pleasure or joy, I’m usually left feeling kind of cold, and often spend the time wondering what my next project will be.
The rehearsal process (Death) is where 99% of the fun of creation comes in for me. This is where the creative decision are largely made, and the detail and depth of the show are discovered. (Rereading that sentence, it’s probable that a lot of directors would put this work into the preprod phase… I’ve always been an on-the-fly type though). One of the things that fascinates me about directing is take a creative work from potentiality to actuality… it’s the process of the execution of the work that gets my blood flowing in the end.
A quick caveat: I’m not trying to reopen the Process vs. Product debate again. As I said before, every single decision made in the pre-production and rehearsal phases of the show by necessity must work towards the good of the final product (which is a bit of an ‘ends justify the means” argument, I suppose). All I’m saying is that the actual pleasure for me largely resides in the journey of discovery, not the stasis of a destination.
I find pre-production (Birth) to be satisfying in a detached sort of way – trying to make solid decisions to ensure a strong production, finding the right cast, space etc. In the end, the success or failure of the work you do in pre-prod will define the scope of what you’re able to accomplish with the work.
Performance (Rebirth) is the least satisfying stage for me. It’s (of course) gratifying to have people enjoy your show, and every decision made in the first two stages must work toward and support the audiences eventual experience of it, but in terms of actual pleasure or joy, I’m usually left feeling kind of cold, and often spend the time wondering what my next project will be.
The rehearsal process (Death) is where 99% of the fun of creation comes in for me. This is where the creative decision are largely made, and the detail and depth of the show are discovered. (Rereading that sentence, it’s probable that a lot of directors would put this work into the preprod phase… I’ve always been an on-the-fly type though). One of the things that fascinates me about directing is take a creative work from potentiality to actuality… it’s the process of the execution of the work that gets my blood flowing in the end.
A quick caveat: I’m not trying to reopen the Process vs. Product debate again. As I said before, every single decision made in the pre-production and rehearsal phases of the show by necessity must work towards the good of the final product (which is a bit of an ‘ends justify the means” argument, I suppose). All I’m saying is that the actual pleasure for me largely resides in the journey of discovery, not the stasis of a destination.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Nervous-Boy Trailer
Ben Vandenboom put this together over the last week... It came out looking fantastic. Three more chances to see Nervous-Boy, folks...
Thursday, May 11, 2006
The Adventures of Nervous-Boy
The Adventures of Nervous-Boy (a penny dreadful)
by James Comtois
Directed by Pete Boisvert
June 8-10, 15-17, 22-24 (Thursday through Saturday)
8pm, $15 Admission
Downstairs at The Gene Frankel Theater
24 Bond Street (between Lafaette and Bowery)
for reservations call 212-352-3101 or click here to order tickets through TheatreMania
www.nosediveproductions.com
"Poor Grendel has had an accident… So may you all."
—John Gardner
"Living in New York, I'm around a lot of people who are stressed out. Always stressed, always freaking out and always living in a constant state of self-created panic. I'm not really like that. I don't really stress out. At least, not in the way that people I know do. I don't feel stress. It's more of a constant feeling of steady dread…"
So opines the eponymous hero of The Adventures of Nervous Boy, a horrifically alienated New Yorker who's slowly and steadily losing his mind. In the new black-as-death comedy-horror play from Nosedive Productions, the cruelly-named Nervous Boy wanders around a grotesque nightmare version of the city and comes across New Yorkers of every kind, from rude cell phone users, belligerent alcoholics, pretentious academics, screaming couples, demons from the underworld and brain-dead zombies as he tries to burn a recently earned paycheck in order to maintain his sanity.
The Adventures of Nervous Boy features graphic violence and strong sexual situations and is recommended for adults only
—John Gardner
"Living in New York, I'm around a lot of people who are stressed out. Always stressed, always freaking out and always living in a constant state of self-created panic. I'm not really like that. I don't really stress out. At least, not in the way that people I know do. I don't feel stress. It's more of a constant feeling of steady dread…"
So opines the eponymous hero of The Adventures of Nervous Boy, a horrifically alienated New Yorker who's slowly and steadily losing his mind. In the new black-as-death comedy-horror play from Nosedive Productions, the cruelly-named Nervous Boy wanders around a grotesque nightmare version of the city and comes across New Yorkers of every kind, from rude cell phone users, belligerent alcoholics, pretentious academics, screaming couples, demons from the underworld and brain-dead zombies as he tries to burn a recently earned paycheck in order to maintain his sanity.
The Adventures of Nervous Boy features graphic violence and strong sexual situations and is recommended for adults only
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