Flux Sunday 8/14

post and photos by Isaiah Tanenbaum

Flux Sundays have been a casualty of a number of commitments, both within and without Flux, these past few months. But we managed to get a nice one in on the 14th. Hopefully the fall will bring a much-welcome return to more regular workshops, but let’s not worry about what might be, and instead celebrate what was!

Playwrights: Jerry Polner (Dirty Looks), Isaiah Tanenbaum (Green Forest)

Directors: Jerry Polner and Shetal Shah

Actors: Shelley Miller, Heather Lee Rogers, Chester Poon, Joe Rothschild, Isaiah Tanenbaum, & Shetal Shah

Highlights:

• One of the joys of running Flux Sundays, as Gus can attest, is staying up until all hours writing for those specific actors who need roles the next day. Chester rocked a purposefully awkward semi-British accent as James, aka Jack B. Nimble, Master of Games, in the backstage-at-a-Renaissance Faire play that I never knew I needed to write.
• This was a Flux Sunday of Newbies, as we had three! Shetal Shah pulled double-duty for her very first Flux Sunday, directing that RenFaire scene with aplomb while handling a very texty walk-on as Darien, the foulmouthed teenager who plays a puritan. Shelley Miller held back a Big Secret through the whole scene before dropping it like a bomb. And Tartuffe veteran Joe Rothschild was alternately frantic and creepily inappropriate as the obsessive Joan in Jerry Polner’s play about a teaching NGO that may or may not also be a cult.
• But my personal highlight of the day was Heather’s whiteboard drawing (featured above) of the receptionist for that NGO, who in a production would probably be a cardboard cutout. Gaze long into the magnet eyes, and you’ll find that the magnet eyes gaze back at you…