last weak.

so here are some midnight cabaret videos from friday, march 5, 2010. our show that week was called "remember the victorious." (see more on our youtube channel!)

you might notice that this week, in an effort to try a new thing, maybe make the show more dynamic, we stole the neo-futurist's use of the word "go!" to start plays.

it helped. i'm sorry if that is somehow legally wrong.

i was in the show and i wrote two of the plays.

here is one.

"whale fridays." (this was the first play of the night, which is why andrew gives that really intense little introduction at the beginning.)

last wednesday, i was sitting in theatre history class, bored out of my mind, thinking about what to write for cabaret. (i do a lot of writing for cabaret in that class beacuse: 1. i hate that class. and 2. it is on wednesday, and wednesday night is the night where we pitch our plays. and 3. if i'm writing i look productive and if not engaged then at least productive, which is always admirable.)

i realized that i never write funny things. i don't know how to write funny things yet. so i decided to start small,

retelling and staging one of my favorite jokes, first told to me last summer by annie burns.

i don't really feel like i have a better handle on writing humor.

and this was my second play in the night's show.

"dear skydivers, i can see your life from here."

no i don't know what the fuck it means. which might make it worthless. i am a-OK with that.

this week i also wanted to try the effect of not casting myself in something i'd written. i suppose this was fairly easy because 1. i felt no intense personal connection to what i'd written, so much that i did not trust it to other performers. and 2. there was nothing that i intensely wanted to do. like cover my face in flour or sick my head in a bucket of water, etc.)

"bus. stop." by nikki.

okay i had nothing to do with this play, i just really like it a lot. (at the very end, there is kind of a loud clatter, and that is nikki (the performer) opening the stage left door and exiting the building.)

okay, one more.

"staring at the sun" by andrew.

well again, i really don't have much to do with this play, well i was in it, but mostly i just dig it. (but man, tv on the radio, you guys sound like fucking genesis or some shit.) i assume it looked even cooler in real life, as the camera can't really fit the whole stage and the camera work is shaky. also for this piece, the girl holding the camera talked rather a lot. she did not trust water onstage. she's a sweetheart.