Lief Eve Macias- Journal 8- Monologue

This performance contains plenty of bad language, gestures and actions from Jack Nicolson’s portrayal of Jack Torrance, Sissy Spacek’s Wendy and Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance and other characters, our three main characters from the horror film “The Shining”, directed by “Stanley Kubrick” from a book by “Steven King”.  Not only will you be witnessing the film, but you’ll be watching it live, performed by us performers who will be recreating the whole film. You may or may not come across and witness stress, arguments, complications and confusions with technical elements and props, but we really hope and can insure you that beside the true realistic hard work and concentration, this involves a professional approach, accuracy, and true connection of emotion; we aren’t just performers in space acting, as we are the subjects. We had to and have to believe in what we are doing and saying. It took time to be able to relate and connect with the acting, as there are so many character changes, also through having to change roles of gender; this was really interesting as it was sometimes confusing. I found myself having to remember that Jack Nicolson doesn’t have a high pitched voice, but a manly low voice, this was something I had to work on, and I think this is where many of us struggled in being able to portray our characters fully.

There’s a wonderful contrast of beautiful and gruesome, chaos and calming moods and movements, stillness and constant moving within the space. The key thing to remember during this whole performance, is no matter what is happening within the space, the action projected on the screen is what is important, the accurate shots and the simplicity of our set that matches the large difficult set within the film, yet we produce the same atmosphere, scenery and action.

The setting plays its part in creating an unsettling ambience, a tense surreal atmosphere,that keeps you on the edge of your seat.