An 800 year old bard must perform ten tasks on his birthday to live another year. He tricks the audience, brings members to the stage for stunts, takes questions, sings sad and happy songs and does amazing beatbox. Fun for all.
Lots more to shoot today, tomorrow and Sunday.
One of my favorite shows so far. Rhonda Brown portrays Molly Ivins, who Americans may know for her acerbic wit, fearless journalism and relentless skewering of politicians, particularly Republicans. She was an unashamed liberal in increasingly right-wing Texas, but worked for many news organizations. One of her funniest bits was about her obituary for Elvis Presley and covering his funeral in Memphis, falling in with a convivial biker convention, that got her fired from the New York Times. It’s worth looking at her biography, particularly the quotations from her work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Ivins
Another scene from Big Machine, which was wonderfully produced. Rosie, one of the leaders of the workers, confronts the plant manager, named - very oddly, sorry - Methuselah. He is a sympathetic character, too, stuck in a corporate assignment away from his family, another cog in the machine.
The real work starts tonight as the main part of The Fringe schedule begins. I’ll probably shoot at least 20 shows in the next six days. Then I have to edit all of it.
Midgley's legacy is tied in with the negative environmental impact of leaded gasoline and freon. Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history", and Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny". Fred Pearce, writing for New Scientist, described Midgley as a "one-man environmental disaster".
In this scene, Midgely dodges a reporter’s questions about what he hath wrought.
