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DJI Phantom 3 Professional

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Mentor leader Mike O'Connell, director Ryan Mooney (not pictured), and actors Colton Ruscheinsky, Larra Snyder, Tyler Andrew Jones, and Christina Holtom worked together after class getting the photo for our poster. The lovely Ms. Holtom painstakingly designed it with her own blood, sweat, and tears.

It's hard getting serious over cereal.

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Mentee Update: Ryan Mooney

Mentorship Company director Ryan Mooney gives us his thoughts on the first read-thru of Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom this last Saturday:

After weeks of production meetings, fundraising, and development, we finally had the chance to bring everyone together and read the play informally. It was well worth the wait. Our official “First Read” is in just under a week, so there was no stress or stakes in the read. For this production of Neighborhood 3, I’ve cast 8 actors to play 16 roles, in a play consisting of 9 two-person scenes and 8 “walkthrough.” Stitching everything together is going to be one hell of a ride – and this was the first step.

My favorite part of a table read is listening to the actors experiment. Since we’re confined our chairs and cups of coffee, the actors are left to express their given circumstances, desires and fears vocally. We’re only a few days into the meat of the process, and already the actors are bringing enormous offers to the table – making each character distinct and interesting. Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be working tirelessly to create and fill the world of this play. More as this story develops…

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The calm before the storm...

Director Ryan Mooney's view from the casting table at last Monday's company auditions for Neighborhood 3. Parts have been cast, the show is on its way!

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The Prom Queen

On the way home from the Prom Alex Farnham dumps Lauren in the wrong part of town. Tanya Berchadsky and Jaret Martino can't rescue her, and she's forced to fend for herself. Can Bryan Walton help? Who will rescue the Prom Queen? It is gonna be a long night..... Much thanks to Director: Antonino Buzzone DP: Ryan Mooney Music By: Saverio Rapezzi Subscribe to Guy Walks Into a Bar to see more amazing comedy http://www.youtube.com/guywalksintobar Alex Farnham http://www.youtube.com/damitsgood808 Bryan Walton http://www.youtube.com/bryoq Tanya Bershadsky http://www.youtube.com/hiyatanya Jaret Martino http://www.youtube.com/jaretmartino Stalk the Prom Queen Gplus.to/laurenfrancesca twitter.com/laurenfrancesca facebook.com/laurenisfunny laurenfrancesca.com

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Happy World Theatre Day

Depending on how generous one was feeling, I was either a precocious or pretentious kid. I read all the time, sought brochures for myself about transferring to a french immersion school in grade three, and wanted desperately to go to the theatre. When I was 10 or 11, my grandparents bought me tickets to Phantom of the Opera. A little over two decades later, on the other side of actually reviewing theatre as part of my living and understanding that Phantom kinda sucks, the pounding piano chords of the titular number still quicken my pulse. For the last four years, I’ve been truly fortunate to have a chance to write about Vancouver’s theatre community. Have I loved everything I’ve seen? No. But that’s mostly beside the point. Sitting in on rehearsals, coming together for opening night, riveted by a performance that tears your insides up — I was, and am, lucky enough to be a part of it. Sitting in an audience makes you part of a community, no matter how objective a writer might try to be. Ahem. (I tried, I swear, but it’s hard to be remote when you have so much respect for what people are trying to do!) Small, young, emerging companies are among the theatres I’ve championed the most, particularly Itsazoo and Fighting Chance. Again, have I loved every production? No. But I believe very much in their vision and resourcefulness and passion. Imagine what Ryan Mooney could do for Theatre Under the Stars? I imagine the Zoo Crew as possible successors to Electric Company’s kingdom. There’s so much possibility in this city! Morris Panych knows that’s true. I had a chance to speak with the storied playwright/director/actor a few weeks ago, just days after the Playhouse Theatre Company’s jarring, devastating farewell announcement. We lamented and raged, and then moved on to what we were really there to talk about: the stage. The last few minutes of our dialogue meant a lot to me and since there wasn’t room to print it at the time, I wanted to share it with you now. Happy World Theatre Day! Andrea Warner: You’re a playwright, director and you’ve done acting. What brings you the most creative satisfaction? Morris Panych: I have to say writing. It’s the most control. Well, the writing part. The production is the difficult and complex of the three. Unless you’re directing it, then you really do lose control. When you’re actually writing a play, there’s nobody else in the process. They’re all creative in their own way, but they have limitations... I was an actor for quite a few years and I found it very frustrating. That’s probably why I became a director, because I found directors frustrating. AW: How do you step away from the ownership of having written the play and let your actors reinterpret your words? MP: In this instance [Gordon], I’d already sat through a rehearsal of this play with another director, so I had an opportunity to deal with the script and I wasn’t really into changing the script that much. My focus wasn’t split. But sometimes it is. When I’m premiering a play, and I’m directing the play I’d just written, I do find it difficult to focus. Some days I’ll find that I’ve been watching a whole day of rehearsal as a writer. I was lucky in this one that I didn’t have to think much about the script. And there are huge advantages when you’ve written it: you can explain it yourself to the actors, there’s no middle man. AW: With all of your plays having at least one death and covering a lot of dark, and darkly funny, subject matter, is writing the ultimate catharsis for you? MP: (Exhales loudly and humorously) I guess so. I guess it must be! (Laughs) AW: You don’t have a fight club at home or anything? MP: No. I don’t do much else. I do yoga and running and you get some moments of clarity and stuff, but there’s nothing like writing. There are moments when I’m listening to music and I’m taken some place I can’t imagine having gotten there through any other means. But when you’re in that scene, when you’ve found that story, when you’re living with those characters and hearing their voices every morning and you run to the computer, that’s really living.