June 15, 2011
June 13, 2011
I beg to differ, for the first time
I know how dangerous it is to disagree with reviewers and especially headline writers - as they're sometimes all we have. But, they're all we have and I don't think they saw the same show I performed in...
So here's my first ever review of the review for "Swimming in the Shallows". There's a link below to read the review as written but first a few comments:
"...but during one’s experience of the play, deeper thoughts do not occur: We are, after all, swimming in the shallows with five ridiculously fraught humans"
Actually, I believe the play is about the beginning, middle and end of relationships and how consumerism is ruining relationships. So, if new love, marriage, divorce and paring down ones possessions are shallow - guilty!
"...perhaps because the characters’ problems are so common and trivial and their neuroses so mild."
See my comments above.
"Nonetheless, the vigor and attractive nature of artistic director Carla Nell’s acting company is laudable."
Thank you for the laudanum.
"Barb has a garage sale and lightens her load further by getting rid of her clueless husband, Bob (Kevin Six)."
This is the best piece of writing in the whole review.
Read the whole thing here
So here's my first ever review of the review for "Swimming in the Shallows". There's a link below to read the review as written but first a few comments:
"InnerMission's Swimming in the Shallows drowns in its own ingratiating humor"
Harsh. Much more harsh than the review. Do keep reading."...but during one’s experience of the play, deeper thoughts do not occur: We are, after all, swimming in the shallows with five ridiculously fraught humans"
Actually, I believe the play is about the beginning, middle and end of relationships and how consumerism is ruining relationships. So, if new love, marriage, divorce and paring down ones possessions are shallow - guilty!
"...perhaps because the characters’ problems are so common and trivial and their neuroses so mild."
See my comments above.
"Nonetheless, the vigor and attractive nature of artistic director Carla Nell’s acting company is laudable."
Thank you for the laudanum.
"Barb has a garage sale and lightens her load further by getting rid of her clueless husband, Bob (Kevin Six)."
This is the best piece of writing in the whole review.
Read the whole thing here
June 9, 2011
Swimming in the Shallows review:
"Six is boyishly charming as Bob, Barb’s confused and slightly befuddled (if not too horrifically sad) husband. I really loved that fact that he wore a t-shirt that said “Bob” the entire production. Barb’s obsessive talk of “Bob” objectified him and the t-shirt topped it off."
-Paola Hornbuckle, Arts N Fashion Magazine
May 6, 2011
Kevin Six wins Second place for blogging
Blogs | La Vista
Other People's Children
By Kevin Six | Posted April 3, 2011, 12:59 p.m.
This happened to me on Friday. Twice. One was an adult who yelled at children in Borders and another was a woman yelling at a mother at Stu Segal's Studio Diner. Both adults were in the wrong, one of them got a serious dressing-down by me and the other deserved one but my girlfriend sat nearly on me in the restaurant to keep me in my seat.
First the a-hole in Borders:
More:
April 26, 2011
How to solicit plays electronically
Instead of having playwrights bear the burden of printing and mailing scripts for a short play contest/festival, I suggest these easy steps to save time, money, gasoline and distribute the burden of printing...
1. Get a free G-Mail account, which includes Blogspot.
2. Set up a blog to be utterly and completely private (this takes literally five minutes). Assure playwrights that only the directors/actors/judges for the festival will have access to the blog. Note: if the blog is not private, playwrights will see their plays on routine Google alerts that they make with their names and the names of their plays.
4. Invite judges/directors/actors, etc. to the blog via Blogspot. The program by sends them a link to the blog and requires them to sign in with Google (a small catch but a LOT of people have Google accounts for purposes just like this).
3. Have playwrights submit their plays in Rich Text Format (rtf) attached to an e-mail. It is possible to have all e-mails become blog posts but it's probably better to load them manually.
4. Load the plays onto the blog. Each play's title is the blog title. This way people can read/choose/browse plays on the blogroll that it usually on a panel to the right. If you need to strip contact information, you may do this or ask the playwrights to but make sure you get that information on the body of the e-mails from playwrights.
5. Save all incoming e-mails as a group so you may respond to everyone. You may also set up a reply that thanks e-mailers for their submission and gives them information about when final decisions will be made.
5. Choose the plays that made the final cut and delete the rest from the blog. This way, you can invite directors/technicians/actors to become blog readers (readers may not post to the blog) so they can read, print and comment on plays.
6. The festival is half-produced.
February 17, 2011
The D Effect By Kevin Six
({this was one of the monologues I wrote/performed for the MENding Monologues last week})
I heard about this study in which an ape was put in a room with a bunch of bananas. He had access to all of them, including one up high that was wired to give him a shock. When the ape touched this Electric Banana, he received a shock.
Then the scientists introduced another ape into the room. When the second ape tried to reach for the Electric Banana, the first ape, not wanting his new friend to receive a shock, hit him over the head.
The scientists then removed the first ape and turned off the Electric Banana. They kept rotating apes into the room but none of them ever touched that banana because, if they tried, the ape that was already there would hit them over the head.
Something scientific had just happened. And I don’t know what it was because I’m neither an ape nor a scientist. I call this it Electric Banana Effect: an ape will hit you over the head to keep you from getting a shock.
I think humans could use an Electric Banana experiment. But I don’t think we’d go for it because, well, we aren’t apes. We can speak, for one thing. We can say, “Say old boy, don’t touch that banana or you’ll get quite a shock.”
We also have Social Conventions. We would never think of hitting you over the head to keep you from getting a shock. Especially in a laboratory with scientists looking on.
But you’re going to get the shock, aren’t you? Even if I say the banana’s wired, you’re going to touch it. The shock you receive is your punishment for not believing me; and my punishment for not being ape enough to hit you over the head.
But are Social Conventions more civilized? In a classroom, on a committee or at work, Social Conventions actually keep us from telling each other what would help the communication process. We don’t want to shock anyone with A, B, C… so we hit them over the head with A, B, C…
I call it ABC Theory: A is a shocking thing that happened to someone; B is how A makes someone feel; and C is how someone comes to terms with A&B. ABC Theory used to drive me crazy. Why can’t people just say, “I have ABC, so please go easy on me”?
Then I took part in an experiment also known as a V-Day rehearsal. As V-Day is a global movement to end violence, many of the people involved have experienced violence. These people felt comfortable enough to share their As, Bs and Cs; and hearing them didn’t kill me. In fact it made me want to help.
That’s when I came up with the D Effect. If A is a shocking thing that happened to you; and B is how you feel about that; and C is how you’re coping with it ; then let D be what I can do to help.
I never wanted to shock anyone with my ABC so I hit them over the head with it. I resented people for not telling me about their ABCs and I would never ask for the D Effect because I didn’t think I deserved it.
And then I realized that the people who need the D Effect most might not know how to ask for it.
And that hit me like an Electric Banana.
If the D Effect is part of the solution, why am I withholding it? I mean The D Effect works if people have an ABC or not; or tell me or not or if they have ABC and don’t know it. So I’m going to use it on everyone and, if they’re working through something it will help a lot and, if they aren’t it will still work.
When you look at the statistics it’s pretty safe to assume that everyone you meet might be a little bit broken and might be putting some pieces back together and might not have thought to mention it, because, well, we’re not apes.
So the D Effect works best when liberally applied. I think it’s what separates us from the Apes.
I heard about this study in which an ape was put in a room with a bunch of bananas. He had access to all of them, including one up high that was wired to give him a shock. When the ape touched this Electric Banana, he received a shock.
Then the scientists introduced another ape into the room. When the second ape tried to reach for the Electric Banana, the first ape, not wanting his new friend to receive a shock, hit him over the head.
The scientists then removed the first ape and turned off the Electric Banana. They kept rotating apes into the room but none of them ever touched that banana because, if they tried, the ape that was already there would hit them over the head.
Something scientific had just happened. And I don’t know what it was because I’m neither an ape nor a scientist. I call this it Electric Banana Effect: an ape will hit you over the head to keep you from getting a shock.
I think humans could use an Electric Banana experiment. But I don’t think we’d go for it because, well, we aren’t apes. We can speak, for one thing. We can say, “Say old boy, don’t touch that banana or you’ll get quite a shock.”
We also have Social Conventions. We would never think of hitting you over the head to keep you from getting a shock. Especially in a laboratory with scientists looking on.
But you’re going to get the shock, aren’t you? Even if I say the banana’s wired, you’re going to touch it. The shock you receive is your punishment for not believing me; and my punishment for not being ape enough to hit you over the head.
But are Social Conventions more civilized? In a classroom, on a committee or at work, Social Conventions actually keep us from telling each other what would help the communication process. We don’t want to shock anyone with A, B, C… so we hit them over the head with A, B, C…
I call it ABC Theory: A is a shocking thing that happened to someone; B is how A makes someone feel; and C is how someone comes to terms with A&B. ABC Theory used to drive me crazy. Why can’t people just say, “I have ABC, so please go easy on me”?
Then I took part in an experiment also known as a V-Day rehearsal. As V-Day is a global movement to end violence, many of the people involved have experienced violence. These people felt comfortable enough to share their As, Bs and Cs; and hearing them didn’t kill me. In fact it made me want to help.
That’s when I came up with the D Effect. If A is a shocking thing that happened to you; and B is how you feel about that; and C is how you’re coping with it ; then let D be what I can do to help.
I never wanted to shock anyone with my ABC so I hit them over the head with it. I resented people for not telling me about their ABCs and I would never ask for the D Effect because I didn’t think I deserved it.
And then I realized that the people who need the D Effect most might not know how to ask for it.
And that hit me like an Electric Banana.
If the D Effect is part of the solution, why am I withholding it? I mean The D Effect works if people have an ABC or not; or tell me or not or if they have ABC and don’t know it. So I’m going to use it on everyone and, if they’re working through something it will help a lot and, if they aren’t it will still work.
When you look at the statistics it’s pretty safe to assume that everyone you meet might be a little bit broken and might be putting some pieces back together and might not have thought to mention it, because, well, we’re not apes.
So the D Effect works best when liberally applied. I think it’s what separates us from the Apes.
February 7, 2011
Sullivan Players presents a reading of Bad Habits by Terrence McNally
7:00 p.m. Every Monday in February 2011.
The play is about.. well, follow this link: https://secure.wikimedia.o
Come see some of DJ Sullivans' favorite actors in one of her favorite plays. 7:00 p.m. every Monday in Feb.
Featuring:
Ian Rose, Michael Mannocchio, Elaine Miranda, Greg Rhode, Timothy Carr, Jo-Darlene Reardon, Jack G. White, Joe Nesnow, Byron Teagarden, Renee Varnadore, Sheila Rosen, Michael Bova, Tom Kilroy, Kevin Kornburger, Lou Cruciani, Tim Evans and Kevin Six
Swedenborg Hall
The play is about.. well, follow this link: https://secure.wikimedia.o
Come see some of DJ Sullivans' favorite actors in one of her favorite plays. 7:00 p.m. every Monday in Feb.
Featuring:
Ian Rose, Michael Mannocchio, Elaine Miranda, Greg Rhode, Timothy Carr, Jo-Darlene Reardon, Jack G. White, Joe Nesnow, Byron Teagarden, Renee Varnadore, Sheila Rosen, Michael Bova, Tom Kilroy, Kevin Kornburger, Lou Cruciani, Tim Evans and Kevin Six
Swedenborg Hall
1531 Tyler Ave.
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