{"id":42,"date":"2016-08-06T23:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2019-06-05T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:19:15","slug":"moon-cove-throwback-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/artist\/performances\/moon-cove-throwback-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"“Moon Cove” Throwback Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Completely pleased with the new work I’ve done with the Moon Cove<\/strong> digital projection — it truly looks better than ever: great new images, enhanced editing, and my latest equipment\/software combination is superb. I’ve got three more performances in this run.<\/p>\n

The projection wasn’t always so rosy, however. It’s always<\/em> been a thorn in my side. Here’s a look back at one of the most notable projection issues I’ve had with this show:<\/p>\n

Moon Cove<\/strong> debuted at the fifteenth Dramarama festival, which was in April 2008 at the Contemporary Arts Center. That rendition of the performance, while important to do, was a bit of a disaster. My nerves were shot and I kind of destroyed the script while onstage. Additionally, an issue with the projection arose. The projected images are supposed to make it appear that I\u2019m standing in a landscape, with the images preferably six or more feet in height, starting from stage level — the projection is the “scenery.”<\/p>\n

But about twenty minutes before showtime, I found out that due to the position of the images via rear projection, it would indeed be seen from the floor level of the stage as planned — but the projection would only be about two and a half feet tall.<\/p>\n

Seriously.<\/p>\n

\"She's<\/a>
She’s not so scary when she’s so tiny<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I felt like I was in the Stonehenge scene in This is Spinal Tap<\/em>. It was ridiculous. I performed the show awkwardly, trying to keep from blocking the projection completely with my legs.<\/p>\n

After the performance, my younger sister, who had been distributing playbills, whispered a deadpan joke: \u201cYou know, all you had to do was just step on that fifolet.\u201d I laughed … but that night was pure agony.<\/p>\n

“I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.”<\/em><\/p>\n

– David St. Hubbins, This is Spinal Tap<\/em><\/p>\n

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Three more shows! Performances info is on the Moon Cove<\/a><\/strong> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Completely pleased with the new work I’ve done with the Moon Cove digital projection — it truly looks better than ever: great new images, enhanced editing, and my latest equipment\/software combination is superb. I’ve got three more performances in this run. The projection wasn’t always so rosy, however. It’s always been a thorn in my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7,3],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}