Priscilla's first response to "Love Candy"

Observations:
It seems to me that you are really developing and rethinking your approach to this work and that what we first read in class is undergoing major changes. Because of that, and because I am not sure what direction you are taking, I don't think I can make useful comments on "Love Candy" at this time, and will confine my comments to the class workshops.

I was struck at the variety of responses to the make-up session. It brought up so many thoughts on definition of self, creation or recreation of self, putting on of self -- or masking of self. I am excited at that thought of watching the character applying her makeup/creating herself on stage as part of the work -- very evocative.

The timeline workshop was also a great idea and I was surprised how long I kept thinking about it afterwards -- thinking of other things we might have added that were importatnt historically. It made me wonder how much the particular time she lived in defined Candy's life and how it might have been different had she been born twenty years later.

Questions:
Following up on the timeline and how Candy's life was impacted by the time in which she lived, I'm wondering if you are going to include historical markers/memory joggers in the script.

Something in the work we were doing made me want to see pictures of the real Candy. I think there are huge opportunities for visuals in this work. Are you thinking of including them are part of your script?

Opinions:
I do not know anything about the historical Candy and her relationship to Warhol other than what I have learned in class. To that end, if her life story was hugely impacted by Warhol, and it is something I should know as an audience, I would like more information. Also, I would like to know if she had a personal relationship, friendship, or purely working (but socially public) relationship with Warhol. And were there others that influenced her as strongly?