George's Blog about "Love Candy"

AFFIRMATIONS
Nice work! Jenny, I felt that you used some of the pedagogy lessons we learned last semester to great effect: keeping us moving from one activity to the next, changing the geometry of the class, playing with space (moving those curtains in was genius). Kept us off-balance in a good way.

The make-up exercise was a great idea - really plunged us into the world of the play in a tangible, personal way.

The time-line was fun and really underlined the tumultuousness of the time - the spectacular (Michael's and my birth) and the horror (the various assassinations).

I really feel connected with the play after playing Candy. That and the makeup and I'm ready to go anywhere with the play.

And, of course, your color-coordination was also appreciated.

QUESTIONS
Is there a way to incorporate the sense of the decade timeline into the play?

Perhaps Candy "makes-up" audience members as they come into the theatre?

OPINIONS
I understand your hesitancy to not let Mr. Warhol take over your show. I do think there might be mileage out of it, though, especially after playing the Candy/Andy scenes. It might be the "in" to the show for those who don't know Candy. On the other hand, he could easily take over. Hmm. Maybe if he was less of a literal presence - a talking soup can or something? I can't decide if that is genius or the stupidest idea I've ever had.

If you did use Andy in a bigger role, the similarity of their names struck me yesterday - (C)andy Darling might look good on a poster...

Playing Candy was intense. I remained quite angry for a few hours after class. So emotional to be at the end of ones life, not satisfied with where it ended up and being able to talk the man who you blame for that. And feeling so violated after his picture of me (which I took to be flattering) turned into a perverse chronicle of my death. Yuk.

Putting on makeup is always a bit sad for me - I never look as pretty as I'd like to.