The Dotted Logline

Tonight I finally caught a performance of Lobster Alice put on by The Blank Theatre Company. While I thought the entire cast was fantastic, the standout for me was Noah Wyle as Salvador Dali, a performance I would characterize as “charismatic insane”. Watching him was like watching an acting class. He was big but still very precise in all of his movements. He took command of the stage but gave a lot to his fellow cast members. And the accent and facial expressions just killed me.

As for the play itself, it’s hard to comment on a especially surreal work in an already organic/non-formulaic medium. I’ll just say that play depended on the strength of the actors to carry it, and the cast didn’t disappoint at all.

On an interesting not, the 2nd Stage Theater is the first place I’ve been to where the audience had to walk through the set to get to the restroom.

I’m debating on whether I should start querying literary agents again now or hold off for a bit. Unfortunately, I waited until after My Super Ex-Girlfriend came out and bombed. Since my screenplay Struck is in a similar genre, I’ll most likely be completely ignored at the moment. Not that querying agents isn’t almost always a total waste of time and money in the first place. But maybe I’ll have better non-luck if I wait a few months for it to blow over.

I was looking at going to Lobster Alice, a play starring Nicholas Brendon (Xander from BtVS) and Noah Wyle at The Blank theater down the street. It turns out the theater accepts play submissions, and I decided to submit Goodbye Dolly. I’ve been waiting almost two years to hear from the publisher and I’m sick of just sitting on one of the best/most successful things I’ve written to date. Besides, the play I’m currently working on is most likely going to be catered towards the improv group I’m in, so I won’t really be looking to shop that one around at first.