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Tea With Alice Salon 30
🕑 Added 2021-07-20 04:29:09 +0000 UTCHallo Patreonites!
Updates and thinking:
The last few episodes of The Gargle podcast have been so much fun, and I just recorded an episode of a BBC Radio sitcom last night (rehearsal call time: 1am, recording call time: 4.45am, Bed time 6.30am. Current daytime condition: fuzzy).
I was a villain character (opposite a pretty anti-hero lead); a self involved eco-poseur running a conference on a private island. I got some boos from the audience which was delightful, as someone who has always secretly wanted to be cast as a villain in an action movie (without ever having pursued acting in any way).
Last week I did CHRONOS as a Zoom Show at the Nowhere comedy club - it was meant to be an appendix show for the Bondi Festival run in Sydney (to make the show accessible for non-Sydney based friends), but it ended up being a floating island of one show in my bedroom at 11am after having about eighty litres of blood taken that morning (a coincidentally timed medical appointment unrelated to the show that I didn’t reschedule because it was so nice to have a reason to get out of the house). I’ll see if I can put up a copy for those of you who are interested. Let me know in comments or dms if you’d prefer I release it (as a Patreon only thing):
- In Audio only.
- Wait til it can be recorded in front of a real audience.
- The whole odd bedroom performance as is.
Tea With Alice has started to fall more into a regular rhythm in my head again after feeling a bit piecemeal and Sisyphean for the last while. Not within the show, but in the process of putting out the show. I’d record an episode and then just have the files unedited on my desktop for days or weeks. It’s not just tea with Alice. I’m literally MONTHS behind on invoicing. An odd block to have; not the work itself, but the follow through - the business of the work feeling heavy. (I still need to find a Secretary to help me find a Secretary)
I have been enjoying the Tea With Alices but there’s something about life not being in its regular rhythm for the last year that’s made it feel uphill to ask people to have tea and thinking talks with me. Particularly when it can’t be in person. Zoom just isn’t the same as sitting in a tea shop together - something about seeing a small reflected homunculus of your own self in the corner making faces while you talk I think throws most people out of the kind of unselfconscious open range I like in real-life-over-tea-chats.
It maybe also feels like people want comfort food, rather than challenging chat… or maybe that’s just me. Anyway, for a multitude of reasons, many of which are ineffable and behind the curtain, things seem suddenly more doable despite Sydney going into an increasingly extended lockdown.
The little writing meeting I had on Friday was very nice - just having people in a zoom room together working on our separate things is something I’ll do again.
All of which rambling aside:
Tea With Alice Salon 30 is here!
That’s quite cool - they do add up. Last week’s ‘open to all levels’ salons was very fun. It’s been a really lovely thing to do, and this week’s one is UK time, tuesday 10pm. Which is 7am Aus east coast time. I’ll send through the passcode to subscribers at Afternoon Tea and up closer to the time.
Topic: Tea With Alice Salon 30
Time: Jul 20, 2021 10:00 PM London
(Or your parallel local time, stick it in your calendar)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82973045487?pwd=bC9VOFJRSERBK0t2c2VObkNpb2k1QT09
Comments
Meagan
I'd vote (if there's still time) for the show as is. Also curious to know which BBC radio sitcom you were a part of–or is it not available yet?
Ian Stark
I tried so many things to fix the distortion in my audio before I realized you folks speak with some sort of an accent. My bad. ☮️
Keith D. Jones
I used to drive my performers nuts by refusing to answer musical intent questions since I actively wanted them to interpret the piece. My typical reply to questions was "don't look at me, I've been dead for a hundred years." They hated that, but I love it when every performance is different. Every musician bringing something different. I most definitely vote for the 11 AM show in some format we can watch and then hopefully a "more refined" version down the road.
My job is admin, and I struggle with admin things. Which is why I'm looking for a new position. I definitely relate. I cast my vote for the odd bedroom show as is.
I think it is perfectly natural to struggle with admin things after however long this endless pandemic stress has gone for! I know I am terrible at admin because it's one of those things where the main (and often only) beneficiary is me and I absolutely cannot set my own deadlines so it's easier to just.... not. Also team as is as someone who was 'at' the show (my first zoom show actually), it was a weird vibe but in a good way actually! Having seen it performed on stage it was interesting to see the difference in physicality in particular.
Donald McCoy
I'm fine with audio only, but if you feel that an audience would enhance the material for you then I vote for audience
I vote for as is as well. Its nice to see/hear different versions of shows. I remember seeing ethos for the first time on a Thursday and you telling us that we shouldn't give you power. I was quite disappointed when I saw it again and that wasn't part of the show. I also got an email about Birmingham being cancelled, pity was really looking forward to it.
I'd listen to/watch any version!
Marcus James
As is please. Also just been informed your birmingham date has been cancelled. Hope to see you when things get better
John Stainton
I'd go for the as is version!
Amir
I'd vote for the audio version :)
Bennett Elder
I say as-is. That 11am bit sounds like a unique experience lol.
