After this initial performance and my encounter with the security guard, I noticed a different attitude from the other artist working at the Public. When I went to the theater the next day some of the other actors in the other shows at the public, there were 3 other shows going at the same time as ours,smiled when they saw me and one actually said that they should fire me because I make the other actors look unreal opposite my character. I took this as a joke at the time.
The audiences were picking up on the play's light humor and I was getting good feedback, mainly from the audience, which on the whole, gave good hearty laughs during my scenes.I had a great character. Like I said, he was a hapless street person with aspirations of being a writer. I had three really good scenes and at the end I come out all dressed up in a brand new loud suite and run into the character from the first scene, when my character was homeless. I tell him that someone bought my writings and that now I was rich. So, my character goes through a major change during the play which is always makes for a interesting character for the actor and the audience.
I did notice resentment from some of the people who worked backstage or in the offices. I can't blame them too much. After all , these people have been kissing ass for years to get the opportunity I was getting without having to pay thousands of dollars to CONSERVATORIES of the performing arts.
After a couple of weeks into the run, The Public Theater announced that"Sorrows of Stephen" would be moved to a larger space with a full Off-Broadway contract and a open ended run. That means a raise in pay and now a much wider exposure with all the big shot reviewers from the New York Times etc.
I felt great, this was what I wanted all along, to just act for a living. I thought I had made it, which turned out to be a big mistake on my part. This was not the pinnacle of the ladder to success but the first step on the ladder.
The audiences were picking up on the play's light humor and I was getting good feedback, mainly from the audience, which on the whole, gave good hearty laughs during my scenes.I had a great character. Like I said, he was a hapless street person with aspirations of being a writer. I had three really good scenes and at the end I come out all dressed up in a brand new loud suite and run into the character from the first scene, when my character was homeless. I tell him that someone bought my writings and that now I was rich. So, my character goes through a major change during the play which is always makes for a interesting character for the actor and the audience.
I did notice resentment from some of the people who worked backstage or in the offices. I can't blame them too much. After all , these people have been kissing ass for years to get the opportunity I was getting without having to pay thousands of dollars to CONSERVATORIES of the performing arts.
After a couple of weeks into the run, The Public Theater announced that"Sorrows of Stephen" would be moved to a larger space with a full Off-Broadway contract and a open ended run. That means a raise in pay and now a much wider exposure with all the big shot reviewers from the New York Times etc.
I felt great, this was what I wanted all along, to just act for a living. I thought I had made it, which turned out to be a big mistake on my part. This was not the pinnacle of the ladder to success but the first step on the ladder.
