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From the Journals of Ian Thal

http://ianthal.blogspot.com

The journal of Ian Thal, a Massachusetts based actor, mime, poet, and performance artist, reflecting on his various projects and interests.

Added on: Aug 11th, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Ian Thal
Listed in: Acting Performance Art
Tags: poetry writing Dance theatre mime commedia dell'arte

Recent Posts

Judicial Theatre Review of "The Overwhelming" at the Art Fuse

Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 18:39 in theatre, Rwanda, Genocide, bill marx, the art fuse, timothy longman, peter-adrian cohen, j.t. rogers, company one

Bill Marx, Editor of The Art Fuse, is conducting a new experiment, the "judicial arts review." To quote Marx:As coverage of the arts in the conventional, mainstream media wanes, critical discussion of the arts online has settled into two e...
Brother Blue 1921-2009

Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 10:20 in Shakespeare, bread and puppet, brother blue

On November Third, Brother Blue (Dr, Hugh Morgan Hill) left the land of the living. He took the title of "storyteller" but could be, and often was, described as a shaman, griot, or performance artist avant la lettre. He was a powerful pres...
Notes on Class

Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 08:58 in theatre, british national party, holocaust denial, university of london, peter schumann, bread and puppet, matthew cohen

I've been following Professor Matthew Isaac Cohen's blog about his course on Bread and Puppet Theatre at Royal Halloway, University of London, with interest in part because my essay "Breaking with Bread and Puppet" which is both a narrative...
Nobody Sucks... Except That Guy

Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 19:19 in theatre, Acting, don hall, total war, mikey diloreto, matthew zahnzinger, angry white guy in chicago

Last week, Don Hall, Chicago-based actor, director, theatre-observer, and activist (and well-known enough in the theatrical blogosphere that I trust someone will correct me if I left anything out) has been posting a series on the audition process on ...
Not Only Do I Use Facebook...

Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 22:06 in Film, facebook, mime, street theatre, clowning, cambridge massachusetts, coulrophobia, the social network

Not only do I use Facebook, but I am in the Facebook movie.Earlier this week I was in a scene in the upcoming film about the creation of Facebook, The Social Network directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. I was hired to play a mime p...
Time Question

Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 21:26 in writing, theatre, total war, anika m. colvin-hannibal

In a recent thread on the Plays and Playwrights Yahoogroup a number of participants asked what it meant when it is written in the body of the play that it takes place in "the present" (presumingly when it was written) but that "present...