SHAKESPEARE SANTA CRUZDrummond Doroski as the Man and Lucas Alifano as the Haberdasher. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo
Podcast on Easter Sunday, March 27th, 2005
Posted from Phoenix, Arizona, Recorded in Marin County, California
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I’ve been down and out for the week but the weekly podcast has been saved by Karen Copeland, host of The Voice of Experience! She graciously interviewed actor Lucas Alifano about audition strategies. MFA student at the National Conservatory, Alifano has a perfect 100% record for being cast in the roles for which he auditions. He shares his thoughts on why he is (knock on wood) generally successful!
Next week, I hope to be back on the mend. I was scheduled to interview festival programmer Israel Ehrisman this week (but just couldn’t get up enough steam to do it). I’ve also got another interview regarding Sundance from the teen perspective that’s almost ready. The biggest challenge to getting the podcasts ready and keeping the blog updated (besides just getting healthy again) is that the annual MCC Student Art Show goes up this week. It’s an incredible amount of work but it’s tremendously valuable for the students, so we keep putting it on. We’ll have to see what next weekend brings.
Regardless, my sincere thanks to Karen and Lucas for generating some great audio material for this week!
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Thoughts on Desperation …
It’s hard to take the idea of desperation seriously when we live in the richest country in the world. I go to bed every night and rest on a comfortable, soft mattress. I have plenty of good food, kind neighbors and inspiring colleagues. As I look at the photos of Iraq, Afghanistan and Bandeh Aceh, I think Thurber and Kierkegaard minimize it best.
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
U.S. Author in “Walden”, 1854
“Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.”
James Thurber (1894 – 1961)
U.S. Author
“Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but FROM deliberation.”
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
Danish philosopher
“A dog in desperation will leap over a wall.”
Chinese proverb
“There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.”
James Russell Lowell (1819 – 1891)
U.S. poet, editor
