A Little Kindness Goes a Long Way
March 26, 2009
Last Saturday, we wrapped early for the day filming “Fursona.” So, the director took me to an antique shop in town. We had a lot of fun laughing and musing over old (and relatively new) artifacts : vinyl, costume jewelry, comics, glassware, toys, guitars, etc.
Then, I saw it.
The Underwood Typewriter...
Then, I saw it.
The Underwood Typewriter...
Last Saturday, we wrapped early for the day filming “Fursona.” So, the director took me to an antique shop in town. We had a lot of fun laughing and musing over old (and relatively new) artifacts : vinyl, costume jewelry, comics, glassware, toys, guitars, etc.
Then, I saw it.
The Underwood Typewriter.
You see, for Bated Breath Theatre Company, we have been researching for “The Parkville Project” since 2007. We have been collecting data on the old Underwood Typewriter factory, as well as many other old industries that were thriving in Hartford in the early 1900s.
As Michael Bradford has been working on the narrative of the piece, which reflects on the past and present, we have all thrown around ideas about how to incorporate historical objects into the show. The typewriter seems to be calling to us again, as a kind of tool to bounce back and forth through time.
SO anyway, we are at this antique shop and I am thinking that I was definitely meant to see this typewriter and pick it up. It was inexpensive, I thought, but I wasn’t sure if it was worth bringing it all the way back to Connecticut. Poor Ryan. He had to listen to me talk about it for the rest of the afternoon.
I get back home and go to a Bated Breath meeting and Helene and Marie said “Oh you should have taken a picture of it.” DOH!
So tonight, I come into Keene and we filmed a brief scene before the director, Ryan, dropped me off at the hotel. That’s when he opened up his trunk and showed me…the typewriter! He said it was from the whole crew as a Thank You…you guys, I am SO happy right now! I have an actual authentic typewriter for the show that we can use, and it was given to me by some of the most professional, fun, and creative people I have had yet to work with!
I just had to let you know about this. It’s perfect. Thank you Ryan, and everyone on the crew of “Fursona!”
Then, I saw it.
The Underwood Typewriter.
You see, for Bated Breath Theatre Company, we have been researching for “The Parkville Project” since 2007. We have been collecting data on the old Underwood Typewriter factory, as well as many other old industries that were thriving in Hartford in the early 1900s.
As Michael Bradford has been working on the narrative of the piece, which reflects on the past and present, we have all thrown around ideas about how to incorporate historical objects into the show. The typewriter seems to be calling to us again, as a kind of tool to bounce back and forth through time.
SO anyway, we are at this antique shop and I am thinking that I was definitely meant to see this typewriter and pick it up. It was inexpensive, I thought, but I wasn’t sure if it was worth bringing it all the way back to Connecticut. Poor Ryan. He had to listen to me talk about it for the rest of the afternoon.
I get back home and go to a Bated Breath meeting and Helene and Marie said “Oh you should have taken a picture of it.” DOH!
So tonight, I come into Keene and we filmed a brief scene before the director, Ryan, dropped me off at the hotel. That’s when he opened up his trunk and showed me…the typewriter! He said it was from the whole crew as a Thank You…you guys, I am SO happy right now! I have an actual authentic typewriter for the show that we can use, and it was given to me by some of the most professional, fun, and creative people I have had yet to work with!
I just had to let you know about this. It’s perfect. Thank you Ryan, and everyone on the crew of “Fursona!”