Monday, March 02, 2009

Direct blogging

I'm not sure what I think about director's blogs. Phil Akin at Obsidian does one, which is interesting when it's random--he has an obsession with beautiful pens and comes up with some interesting profiles of the talent--but less so when he's hauling out "process" material when he's working on a show. Same goes for the director's blog for Missing at Factory. David Ferry gives you a sense of the creative flow, but I don't find it does much for "understanding" what the play will be. You wonder who the audience is: Is he using the blog as a backdoor method to coach the actors? If anybody's reading it, it must be them, which makes you wonder if he's holding back funny anecdotes to save everybody some embarrassment, but which would make the blog worth reading.

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