Showing posts with label Theater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theater. Show all posts
August 15, 2023
July 3, 2022
Going to Minions or Minyan?
February 10, 2020
Israel 2020: Day 1
Every time we come, we can literally see how the country has matured and built up even more since just the short time before.
Of course, we arrived with a little jet lag but still managed to take a nice walk around the bustling streets of Tel Aviv.
The restaurants, cafes, shops, theaters, and culture here is awesome.
I guess the toughest thing is deciding what we want to do each day, but that is all part of the adventure.
See you tomorrow! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
September 2, 2019
April 15, 2019
Theater And A Bagel
How can anything "awesome" not be good?
Flying V mixes it up with the arts and culture.
They combine theater with wrestling!
Essentially, this group tries to add adventure and combat to the more staid dramatic performances.
Anything that brings theater more alive is definitely a good thing.
We got to sit in on the event organizers doing a live podcast and could definitely see their enthusiasm for "Shakespeare and training" and becoming a success story.
Anyway, they did have some snacks at the event, and this colorful bagel was definitely the standout. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
February 25, 2018
Improv, Let's Do it
We went to the Atlas Theater in Washington, D.C. and did Improv (no script).
For a Jewish kid from the Bronx, this was not something I was used to, but I loved it.
- Say your name and an animal with the same first letter and act it out.
- Say something you love or hate and everyone gravitates on the stage towards or from it based on whether they agree.
- Repeat a word and action from someone else and pass it on.
- Act out an action that someone else calls out after yelling "Let's do it!"
- As a group, answer a question from the audience, by each person adding a word to the aggregated answer.
- Give your neighbor a pretend object and after they identify what they think it is and thank you for it, you explain why you gave it to them.
- Stand on an emotion (happy, sad, angry, scared) and act out a scene with someone else rotating through the feelings.
- Pretend you're a hitchhiker and infest the emotion with everyone else in the car.
I was really amazed at how good so many people were with doing these exercises.
And I felt it was so freeing to be doing it too.
I feel like I really learned a lot about being comfortable with yourself and just letting your inhibitions go and even though it was scary and hard, I would like to do this again.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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