Tonight we are in Pittsburgh for
Filmkitchen. Our film, "Happy Walter", (well it's
Zoje Stage's film in which we act) premiered on the big screen. It's really disconcerting to see one's face so much larger than life...
I'm out of my element, but spent a fun night at the theatre and then at the jazz club with film people. My own performance was small and amateurish, but my husband Hal Weaver – who had the starring role – was amazing. Bill
O'Driscoll wrote in Pittsburgh City Newspaper on March 8:
"Walter is portrayed by a friend of Stage's named Hal Weaver, an artist and graphic designer who lives in Virginia Beach, Va. His Walter -- the son of a Pittsburgh steelworker -- is a
goateed, greasy-haired,
earringed guy in a T-shirt reading "Half Man, Half Horse." Most of Stage's actors are untrained -- resulting, for instance, in possible audience uncertainty over whether Weaver is a good if unpolished actor who knows Happy Walter doesn't believe his own bullshit, or simply someone who doesn't buy it himself, and who eventually starts channeling Dennis Hopper."
And so, no time today for drawing. Here's another sample from the Memphis book... I particularly like this quick drawing: for its spontaneity, its peaking into the page from stage right, and the wobbly hook. So vaudeville.
Well, I have mixed feelings about this work. Yeah, it's bigger, but less free. And less successful in terms of, well just about everything: composition, energy, spontaneity... back to the drawing board.
