Yesterday was the read through for the FASS 2009 script - the theme this year is "Spies" (Live FASS, Die Tomorrow). In all honesty, I'm kind of "meh" about the script this year. While there's definately some funny stuff in there, a bunch of the humour is also not entirely my style, shall we say - a lot seems picked more for the shock or "I can't believe they just said" variety. The plot is also rather thin and doesn't seem well thought out. Not that FASS plots tend to be fantastic works of literature or anything, but this one nonetheless feels like the weakest one of the FASSes I've been involved with, at least at the first read through.
I'm only in one scene this year (again), but at least I've got more than two lines. My character has about a third of the lines in the scene. No song, though, unfortunately. The scene itself is ok and doesn't have any of what I would consider the more "questionable" humour. The scene does, however, seem extremely tangential and really has no meaningful connection to the main plot.
As far as FASS roles go, my best one was, undoubtedly, Roman (2006), with Thurman (2004) being a close second. My 2007 parts probably come in third, with the highlight for that year being that I got to wear a costume that wasn't just jeans, a t-shirt and an accessory. Dr. Toolittle (2001) and this year's part are probably about equivalent, tieing them for fourth, making 2005 and 2008 tied for my least favourite. To be fair, though, in 2005 I was commuting from Toronto so all I wanted was a small part that year.
Overall, I think some of my disappointment with this year's script comes from the sense that there's some missed potential. I think there could have been an interesting, amusing and coherent plot in there, but it mostly comes across as a string of loosely connected scenes where people crack jokes, scheme and plot but in the end, not much happens.
All this is, of course, a matter of personal taste. Even without much of a plot there's stuff to laugh at, though that will vary depending on individual sense of humour. I think it would be interesting to know who was the main writer for each scene as I suspect there may be some correlation with the type of humour in each scene.
Anyway, I think I've rambled on long enough about all that. Should be a fun month, regardless.
Freak Out,
-TFitC
1 comment:
As you say in your post, FASS has never been known for it's great literary quality. And over the years I've become...I can't seem to think of the right word, I know it's there I just can't pick it out of my brain...At any rate, I enjoyed FASS less and less every year I partook in it. My first part was the best one I had. It was one of the lead parts in the scene and I had a song. The remaining parts I played were pretty lame. I also feel (now I haven't been in the province for almost 4 years so perhaps I'm not qualified to make this statement) that FASS tended to stick to its old guard a little too much. I met some lovely people through FASS (Andrew being one of them), but I felt that there were FASS favourites and more often then not they were the ones who were going to get the lead parts, or at very least the parts that had an interesting quirks. Hmmm...those are a few of my thoughts. I had better get back to work so I'll leave it there.
Ciao.
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