Gone Missing/The Cleverest Thief review

This was a project I spent 6-7 months on. I was in a class where we workshopped with a member of The Civilians to learn how to create a play from interviews. Then we went out into the community to interview a lot of people. We had to learn their mannerisms, their speech patterns, etc. We talked a lot on how to structure these and how to piece them together to create some through lines.

Lindsay talked to us about how this ties into the gospel, that we are reaching out to people we would never otherwise have reasons to befriend. We get to know these people for a time and then try to represent them fully for other people, to respect their stories and give them importance. 

The other big part of this show was exploring with mixed media. Half the class worked a lot on creating video and media ideas. It was a lot of work for our stage manager to time all that media to the performances every night. It took a lot of people to get all that media created. It reminds me of the "play" we talked about in class. We are playing with what is theatre and what is film. We are also playing with what filming can do, we manipulated an image so it could project image all around but only project certain images on someone's skirt.

It was a good learning experience as an actor as well as a designer. I was the props designer for the show and I had to learn to work with a much more fluid schedule. It was a really great experience and I really was impressed with how much the community loved the Provo half of the show because they connected with it.