What Are Rorschach Folks Up To?

With the weekend coming up I direct you to some shows around town featuring some of your favorite Rorschach Alums and Company Members:

Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Forum Theatre
Featuring Rorschach Company Members: Maggie Glauber, Cesar Guadamuz, Patrick Bussink and Scott McCormick, As well as Rorschach Alumni: Brian Hemmingsen, Frank Britton, Jason McCool and Jessie Terrill. Costumes by Rorschach Alum: Pei Lee.
Final Weekend!
Visit Forum for Details.
Also Backstage has an article about the show and somehow Jane even mentions that I am a Rorschach Company member. Read it HERE.

Death of a Saleman
Arena Stage in Crystal City
Featuring Rorschach Company Member: Tim Getman
Visit Arena for Details.

Anyone else up to anything? Let me know in the comments section and I will post it.

What The Hell Are You Doing?

Annonymous Writes:

What are the Rorschach Company members doing on their time off right now?

Well Anonymous, if that is your real name, we really don't have any time off because we are quite busy preparing for our Exile at Georgetown this summer, but I sent out an email to the Company to see what other things folks are up to and these are the answers I have been able to gather.

From Tracy Lynn Olivera:

Hi! I just started rehearsals for THE HAPPY TIME at Signature, which opens in April as part of the Kander and Ebb festival and runs until the end of may. I miss you guys.

From Tim Getman:

hey bud...doing the miller reps at arena, playing happy in salesman and mike in view from the bridge. then doing in the heart of america at repstage. hope yer well

From Deb Sivigny:

I am opening Chasing George Washington at the Kennedy Center tomorrow night. Then I am working on Crumble with Catalyst Theater and HH nominated Shirley Serotsky. Then Neglect with Journeymen Theater, directed by RT alum Jessie Gallogly some other small things, like YPT's tour and the Source Festival too, but those are the major things...deb

And Cesar Guadamuz, Maggie Glauber, Patrick Bussink (who I just found a profile which I haven't run yet, sorry Foo) and Scott McCormick will be appearing in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot for Forum Theatre and Dance, we started rehearsals in last week and it will open in early April.

Veni, Vedi, Vici

Recently Rorschach added a couple new company members. Both of whom I have had the great pleasure to have worked with over the years. I couldn't be more pleased to welcome Patrick Bussink and Cesar Guadamuz into our happy band of brothers and even happier sisters. It has been a while since we ran one of these but here is another Profile to Discourage. If you want to see more Profiles to Discourage click here and follow the links for each company member.

First up is Cesar. You have seen Cesar in two Rorschach shows, both of which have the longest titles ever, Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot. And a short titled play, Rough Magic. (Thank you Shirley for reminding me.)

Cesar will tell you that he auditioned for us a lot before he got his foot in the door. He's right he did audition a lot, sorry I find it hard to argue with fact. But once he was in it wasn't long before we realized how hard it must be to get his hair to look that way. Let's see what he has to say for himself.

1. Place of birth?

A very distant place where theatre and the arts are a natural part of the environment. In many foreign countries, the arts mean history and national identity. a.k.a. San Carlos, Costa Rica.

2. First experience in theater?

I played a campesino in a first-grade show about the history of Costa Rica. I wore a painted mustache. That would be the last time I'd ever wear a mustache, fake or otherwise.

3. Where you went to school?

The University of Virginia, The London School of Economics. Various American elementary schools. A socialist school too.

4. What do you do?

Other than this crazy thing called acting, I do a crazy thing called writing for nothing and I also do another crazy thing which is work at the Washington Post.

5. What was your first experience with Rorschach?

Fair Ladies at a Game of Constantly Moving Doors.

6. Company member you would most like to be if you were not yourself?

Tim Getman. I want to know what it's like to be 7'5".

7. Some story about working on a Rorschach play that either made you laugh or touched you deeply?

All Rorschach plays make me laugh. All Rorschach plays touch me deeply.

8. Where do you think Rorschach will be in the next ten years?

Rorschach will be having to open a second theatre space to meet the artistic and population demands of their ever-growing and dedicated patrons.

9. What is your favorite Rorschach show that you were not in?

I loved Beard of Avon. I especially enjoyed watching Grady as the Avon Lady.

10. Scott McCormick harmless adolescent or world conquering super villain?

Wit-generating manchild boy genius.

What is Hecuba to Me? Who is Hecuba?

Fringe Day! Everywhere in the City hundreds of performers are reving their engines and producers are beating their chests. All in preparation for a the folks who will (God willing) be knocking down their doors in the very near soon-ness of now.

This is a business of expectation. And we all have expectations out the wazoo the next two weekends.

My expectation is that you will birds at Rorschach and then maybe pay a visit to a couple of my friends and their projects around the Fringe.

Show time at Casa is at 8pm tonight, but I am told we are almost sold out. You still have a shot this weekend with shows at 8pm on Friday and Saturday and a matinee at 3pm on Saturday as well. Remember the show is only 90 minutes long and you can squeeze it with what I am sure will be a very busy week of theater.

What else do we have for you today? How about a musical and a Greek Tragedy?

Cesar and Shirley fresh off the wonderfullness of Rorschach's References to Salvador Dali . . . take a stab at the mad genius that is Mr. Shawn Northrip in Cautionary Tales for Adults and the Many Adventures of Trixie Tickles.

Two mini-musicals with songs ranging from smoky cabaret to frothy pop. First, an unhinged librarian teaches several unsuspecting adults about the injustices of life. Next, a high-strung children's TV star learns valuable lessons of her own like, "being pretty is all that matters". Deliciously inappropriate and filled with guilty pleasures.
Contains Profanity
World Premiere

Performance Schedule:

Friday, July 20 @ 10:00pm

Saturday, July 21 @ 4:30pm

Sunday, July 22 @ 9:30pm

Monday, July 23 @ 7:00pm

Saturday, July 28 @ midnight

Location:

Source Theatre

1835 14th St. NW

Washington, DC 20009

Tickets: 866-811-4111

And Rough Magic vets Gwen and Rachel are going to be some of The Trojan Women in a new adaptation by Ellen McLaughlin

Leaning toward the political in this year’s Capital Fringe Festival is Referendum: Political Arts Collective production of The Trojan Women by Ellen McLaughlin, directed by Rachel Grossman. Through a deliberate integration of realism and movement-theatre based expressionism, Referendum’s Trojan Women captures the surreal, dream-like sensation experienced by victims in the aftermath of overwhelming tragedy. The Trojan Women includes frequent collaborators with Rorschach Theatre Gwen Grastorf and Rachel Miller. The cast features Wyckham Avery, Danielle A. Drakes, Tina Reney Fulp, Elizabeth Johnson, Mark Jaster, Sabrina Mandel, Wendy Nogales, Elaine Yuko Qualter, and Christian Sullivan.

Performance Schedule:

July 26 @ 7pm

July 27 @ 4:30pm

July 28 @ 5pm

Location:

Source Theatre
1835 14th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tickets: 866-811-4111

for tickets: www.capfringe.org

The Trojan Women runs 55 minutes with no intermission.

Get to Know Cesar Guadamuz

Hello true believers! We return once again to the bottomless spring of blog content that is our lovely cast. So many returners in this show but none I think with better hair than our next subject of curiosity, Mr. Cesar Guadamuz.

If I could say one word about this man it would be really hard to pick. So I will let him hoist himself on his own petard and do some of the explaining himself.

A word of warning! In the following Cesar takes it upon himself to critique one of the questions. This will not be tolerated in the future. Even if you do not answer the question I will not have people telling me the questions are stupid. Of course they are stupid! If I was fricken' James Lipton I would be asking you questions like "what is your favorite curse word?" and I would have a deal on Bravo! and none of this would matter. So answer the damn question and don't make me come up there.

1. What is your job in References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot?

I play the young boy Martin, who like me at 14, was searching for the meaning of life in the form of v*g. Am I allow to make this admission on public blog? (No. Editor)

2. Have you ever worked for Rorschach before and how?

Yes! Third time's the charm. I'm like the illegitmate child who keeps coming back for more. Previously I appeared as Caliban in Rough Magic and before that, Yoshitsugu, in Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards where I first had the great pleasure of meeting the Rorschach fam. Mind you, I had probably auditioned for Randy, Jenny (and I think Skidmore) like 10 times before that.

3. Do you have any recurring dreams and if so what are they about?

I'm a sleepwalker and I used to suffer from reocurring nightmares. Now I have dreams about battles and mundane stuff such as conversations and arguments. Weirdness.

4. Other than Dali which painters turn you on?

I'm a huge fan of Jasper Johns though in the last couple of years I've been discovering amazing works by up-and-coming artists....Ryan Jedlicka (Baltimore) comes to mind. One of my all-time favorites is Henry Darger.

5. Have you been doing any special research for the show?

Shhhh, I can't say.

6. Who is the biggest celebrity you have ever met and how?

DCepticon, this question is lame. (Damn straight it is lame. Editor)

7. In a steel-cage-no-holds-barred-death match which character in Dali would win?

I think the Moon's got some real strength. Though if you were to recognize the desert and all its trappings as a character I think it would come out victorious.

8. Who do you kiss in the show? (director and stage manager feel free to answer this as well)

Gabriella and probably mine own hand.

9. If you could live inside of any painting what would it be?

That question creeps me out to the core. I will leave this one alone.

10. If you had a theme song what would it be? And for the actors what would your characters theme song be?

My theme song probably comes from Radiohead or Arcade Fire. I think Martin's theme song is some [unfortunate] Top 40 pop song about loving someone unconditionally.