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To Zoom a play or not to Zoom a play, that is the question.
A recent Zoom production allowed two members from HMTC to perform in a San Francisco-based production. The play was called La Lechuza by Linda Amayo-Hassan, and produced by her San Francisco group, Teatro Cultura. Coming off the last show, I pondered the experience and wonder if this is an adequate play substitute format for a live play production.
This production had a 12-person cast. Many of the adult actors were first-timers to this way of performing. Â I believe we actors jumped at the opportunity, but with some nervousness on how it would all turn out at the end. The children in the cast were mostly comfortable. I believe that is from their year-long schooling in the Zoom medium. They already had a finesse for the process.
Cynthia Onyedinmanasu ChinasaokwuErivo is an English actress. Last week she was a judge on RuPaul s Drag Race. When one of the contestants asked for advice for her growing popularity, Ms. Erivo said, âSurround yourself with good people.â
I discovered this is common advice in the entertainment business. In fact, entertainment people prefer a small group of friends and associates in their world. For many who are famous, it is profound how small their group of trusted associates are.
Certain people can sap your energy, create self-doubt, and impede creativity. Artists who keep these people around may find that these people will eventually envelop the artistâs gifts and claim them as their own! Or worse yet, claim they are originators of the artistic ideas.
Pamela Sterlingâs play LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: THE POWER OF A WOMAN will be produced by Hanford Multicultural Theater Company. HMTC is discovering all that makes Pamela tick before her production locally.
This is the second column dedicated to this power of a woman, Pamela Sterling. An actress, playwright, director, theater educator, and former arts administrator.
In last weekâs column, Pamela discussed the free acting and performance opportunities from her youth funded by The Oregonian. Clearly, this partnership made the arts available to the community and impacted the youth.Â
âI donât think I would have had the opportunities [otherwise],â said Pamela of her early exposure to performance arts.
I have been making puppets for Grace Chaâs Korean American story that has been adapted to the puppet stage. As I put the finishing touches on two of the puppets, I start to mentally build a creative team to help bring the show to fruition. It is a lot of fun to put together creative people. Our theater is intended for people to have a place to create and have their creativity flourish. But what does
creativity really mean?
I recently read a scientific description of creativity which made me uneasy. It defined creativity as âthe capacity to have novel-original and useful-adaptive ideas.â I am not sure if I do a âcreative actâ that is novel and useful every time. All I know is that I feel good when I am writing and making puppets.