Hello to all you other middle-aged artistes and the middle-aged curious. Found the entree into this world of blogs the low-tech way - thru a newspaper tech column. Feel ever so moderne. Still trying to get the URL on the other, more stiffly professional blog to WORK, tho. (that's SUPPOSED to be pamphyila.blogspot.com!!)
Currently in Ventura, where the weather and the air quality are healthy, and where I SENSE a not-so-nascent artistic scene (see other blog for participation) - but still isolated by the sea. Can cyber space help me here? I don't miss L.A.'s grime and strum and drang and noise, but I do miss the artistic input. Anyone else in that position?
FYI - E Duse is my alterego - It stands for Eleanora Duse - She was a famed early 20th C. actress who introduced the art of modern acting and was one of the first to do Ibsen outside of Scandinavia - Now, do you know who Ibsen is? The DOLL'S HOUSE? It's a doozie is supposedly based on her name...
There is so little in the theatrical canon for middle-aged women - mothers, etc. Subsidiary characters. Young actresses, beware! And all the good roles on media are snapped up by aging STARS. Ugh. But we crazy ones sort of persevere - altho it gets tiring and burn out is too easy. I skate back and forth along the crispy critter edge, myself. But I also have a performance "jones" and have to perform for my sanity's sake. Wish I were more of a closeted writer type and could ge the same "kick" with just a keyboard.
Gotta go into town and get pix taken. God, do I hate THAT. Have to do all the wardrobe, makeup, hair, etc. myself - with some friendly help. Why? Otherwise it's too costly...and I can do as well as run of the mill help, anyway....same with PR. But it makes one a one woman band, and that can be a drag, too. If I knew then what I know now would I DO it? I don't know. Work is lovely when it's there - which is not often enough...
Reality, reality. But the really well hooked will disregard all this sage wisdom and do it anyway. I know. But perhaps it's an antidote to the drivel we see around - even in actor-oriented press such as BACKSTAGE. I think Tombudsman is hopelessly optimistic. But then he's a male, and they do have more of the parts and much less competition. (The playing field is only level in the under 4 years-old category, where sex is indistinguishable, or so I understand.
As I say to my personal correspondents - more later - prm
