Summer 2012: Shakespeare in Space! in the Park

This Sunday, June 3, the company members of Shakespeare in Space! in the Park will be holding an open workshop on Warrior Movement in the bandshell of Moraga Commons from 6 to 8 p.m. If the space is already taken, they will move to another place in the park. This workshop is the kick-off of the company's inaugural project, a complete staging of the Klingon translation of "Hamlet", to be performed later this summer in one or more parks, locations TBD. Anyone with any level of previous movement training is welcome to join the company for the workshop. Applications for joining the production of "Hamlet" will also be available. Pass the word on. Your loving clown from out of town, Y.Q.

"One" at the BASH 2012

Saint Mary's College student actors will perform Yancy Q's "One act play with song",
also known by its shortened name "One",
this Thursday evening at 6
in the Soda Center
as part of the BASH 2012.

This is Saint Mary's College's LGBTQIA cultural night.
Put on by leaders of the college Gay-Straight Alliance,
by talented performers who have graced many a stage,
and by brave voices who are just speaking up for the first time.

This is Yancy's third BASH.
In 2009 it directed and played Jesus in "Prop 8: The Musical"
In 2010 it edited and directed the 'Glee'-themed musical number.
This is Yancy's first time writing an original piece.
"One" is group directed by its cast,
which includes first year SMC actors Jennifer O'Brien and Ollie Reyes.
Jaclyn Magbitang will sing the song.

It's gonna be fun.


Registration is free for anyone.
Please go to The Intercultural Center website
to register.

If you look for it on the program,
Yancy is credited as the author and a chorus actor of "One act play with song" under its stage name, Ryan C McQ.





Hope you can make it.

xo
YQ

Finishing Touches

I started the theatre project that we're now calling "Worde" in the summer of 2010. Two scenes were performed at Saint Mary's College in the spring of 2011, and now, in the winter of 2012, it's all coming to fruition.

This play is an homage to the religious origin of Western theatre. The seven scenes are based on the Corpus Christi cycle plays of medieval Europe. They are simple and poetic, and each one contains a strong moral message (or two). The story is a profile of Jesus Christ and his disciples, and the play is a study of how Christ consciousness permeates Modern social and economic systems in the USA and abroad.

This is my project for 2012. The first draft of the text is almost complete, and workshops will begin around the East Bay at the end of January and the beginning of February.

My goal is to have it ready for production by Easter, with an updated draft ready for production by Christmas.

Stay tuned, neighbors. This one will be performed in our own street.

-Y.Q.
the unofficial mayor of yancy street

Everything on here is about to change

I know no one reads this, but I'm letting you know it's all about to change.
Which is good, because nothing has changed in over a year now.

This will be the official blog of Yancy Q's adventures in yancyLand, a new dimension of space-art-time.

Included on this blog will be-

information on upcoming plays and workshops
reviews of bay area cultural events
poetry
photographs
maybe a podcast or two
and lots of love.

Get excited. We're gonna have fun.

-Y.Q.

officially a lover of all things Donald Glover

So I love 30 Rock, for which young comic upstart Donald Glover was a writer for a while. I was introduced to his standup on Comedy Central, and loved that, too. I saw "Mystery Team", loved it. And "Community" on NBC is probably my favorite sitcom of all time.

And now, I don't know how he did it, but Donald Glover caught my love once again. This time, it's his music. CULDESAC is the latest hip hop album Glover has produced under his stage name Childish Gambino. He uses a pseudonym in his raps because, as he states in "The Last", people tend to associate his name with jokes, and he is not a joke rapper.

It's availabe for free download on its official website. Give it a listen. You just might love it, too.

I don't normally get like this about celebrities, but I finally have a guy out there I can kinda obsess over.

a quick run down of my life right now

i'm writing some plays about the end of the world.
(The Apocalypse Studies)
which i want to have finished very soon.

i'm also adapting some medieval cycle plays into postmodern theatre pieces
(in particular, The Temptation of Christ and The Woman Taken in Adultery)
for the spring 2011 mainstage production at Saint Mary's College.
my mentor on the project, Frank Murray, has been nothing but helpful and generous in working with me on this.

i've also been shaping the artistic vision for LAFF!RIOT!(repeat), my clown troupe that i hope to get off the ground in the fall. i've been told i have a problem with follow-through, so this is one thing i'm really going to dedicate myself to.

i leave for Fresno and the CSU Summer Arts workshop on Sunday.
as of right now, i just barely have enough money to get on the Greyhound from here to Fresno.
i have no idea where i'm going to be living in Fresno. i can't afford the on-campus housing option.

i'm trying to arrange yard work jobs with some families around the Lamorinda area so I can get some extra cash in my pocket. last time i checked, i'm pretty good at yard work.

i owe Saint Mary's College $8,500, and can't be a student there any more until I pay that.
so i might not be coming back to school. but that's a little lower on the priority list right now i guess.

elias chahin is the best roommate i could ever ask for.


i started to think for a minute that i'm in some kind of crisis,
but then i remembered:
life is crisis.
crisis is good.
hail eris.


that's all for now. there are other things, of course, but none of them are blogworthy.

I've had many blogs before

many blogs under many names.
many different identities, many different ideals.
many different blogs. they have all failed.

i can't say whether i'll stick with this one or not.
this blog might be the one that i keep forever.
so far, it's the one i like the most.
and i think that now, more than ever, i need a space to arrange my thoughts online.
we'll see.

i am a millennial child.
we for some reason have the need to put all our thoughts online.
i don't know why.
but i guess since i'm a part of this generation, i should be a part of this bandwagon as well.
i'm on twitter already,
and i guess i do have thoughts that are more than 140 characters,
and that aren't in 5-7-5.


a rebirth online
makes the self feel satisfied
though the soul declines.
#haiku

there's more of those on twitter @haikudiaries if you want to take a look.


well, here we go.
a new blog. a new thing in my life.
i'm reluctant, but excited.

welcome to the wonderful world of yancy.