tunes!

At last!

We finished our production of 'Bye Bye Birdie!' today, and I feel we had a wonderful run for it. I think our audiences enjoyed themselves. And now, in that show's wake, I have a great number of projects to shift my focus towards. Which is wonderful.

1. David Mamet's American Buffalo
2. Mark Howard Medoff's Children of a Lesser God
3. Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape
4. Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Oh, sleep. sleep. come, come to me...

Just trying to stop thinking so much...

Here are some recent shots... enjoy!


Sam and I getting sandwiches after a matinee. I think. We ate sometime...

He is the best. A performer. An artist. Please refer to the bearded man with a turban in an earlier post.


The scene shop during set strike.


Roomate Jeff. Brilliant man and artist. I must say he looks quite handsome in his jacket... and in front of the piano...


Roomate Holden. Not a flattering shot. But the moment was too wonderful not to commemorate. yay. sorry Holden. Also, I was borrowing glasses. But they were so fun.


The beautiful James and Kristin dancing. aaah.... so good. Thank God for friendship.

So. Late nights again. The weather is perfect. close to it at least.

You are never too good.
You are never too bad.
It will remain for you and I. All of you. All of me.

ciao. blessed rest.

Merchant of Venice

Directed and designed by Lindsey Christian.

It was a very enjoyable process; Christian has a very good sense of honesty in her work. And in playing Shylock, I was always hungry for more change in the character. He was so interesting to explore.

le Palais Royale. Built 1641. Recreated 2008.

my little, thriving theatre,
I made you out of wood.
I gave you little scenery,
and all the care I could.

I put a big black curtain
behind the painted set.
You are the dearest theatre,
I can say I ever met.

New Designs. Set design class.

Rendering of a cities' deep-set corridor.

The following is a model I designed to exhibit certain qualities offered by our professor that we picked from. I chose seductive, sleek, and opposing. Then we lit it.

Texas - from Sam to infinity.

Tendernest.

Texas. Tyna, this is what you are missing!!

Late night run to wal-mart. I got distracted by the bike section. Big surprise there.

Travels

I went on a road trip from California to Georgia. It was brilliant. James and I.

more to explore, I suppose.

California. Huntington Beach. Burgers and Milkshakes at the end of a pier. Perfect.

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Sunrise and cheap donuts.


Colorado. Snow storms and mountain passes at 11,000 ft+.

Kansas City. Museums and Mayhem. James on a rooftop.

Nashville. Toni is a goddess. We all walked past this tree on the way to the Parthenon.

Atlanta. My birthday party. Hylan was a surgeon on the felt with two long sticks.

Atlanta. Home. 11-11 teahouse. Pu-erh and pleasantness. James and I played Anti-scrabble.


Everyone come next time we drive across the country?

in memoriam

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Be blind, be careless, but love and know when
to stop, to breathe, to listen
and in listening learn the grace of your tongue,
re-learn the care of listening to yourself.
hum. hum. hum. hear the intimate resonance, inside your heads.

oh my, the clock teases, telling me what is relative to how awake or asleep I am...

Be blind, be deaf to alarms and sirens,
no needed for binding to the mast,
you are a strident gull, thwarted but enlivened in the gale,
close those eyes and kiss the silence of your room in black
in ultra-white, the colorless gleam through the air.
hide. hide. hide. see the intimate shades through your eyelids.