Free MySpace slideshows, photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.comHow can I explain my self? We are always changing, and or growing.First the physical. I am 39 year old male(obviously)and moved to Los Angles about four years ago to achieve my acting goals. I have done pretty well, but this career is a marathon, not a sprint. "Unrelenting pursuit until victory!"I love movies, I mean "LOVE" Movies! I am in a committed relationship with a wonderful woman ;) named Jade. She is originally is from Japan, but lived in Australia for over 20 years before moving to LA. We have a 3lb tea-cup poodle named "Mochi". He is such a rock star where ever we go.During the day I am a commodities broker, but at night I ripp off my "corprate drag" and become, "Actor Man" lolI am a martial art practitioner. I study Escrima(Filipino Stick-Fighting) and Krav Maga(Israeli Special Forces Fighting)I have been clean and in recovery for 20 years, and a spiritual(not religious person.My mission in life: "To entertain and illuminate the human experience for the world."
Review" Oleanna" And "Edmund" In Both, The Joy Was The Work Of One Mr. Randy Robertson."
Author: Mark Soper"Oleanna" and "Edmund"
It is my slightly less then humble opinion that of the many phases we naturally go through as actors that a few of the more vague and general are that puppy phase of eagerly wagging at all and sundry involved in the game, the next is having a firm grasp of the holy grail and railing widely and with deep conviction against all others that are not similarly benighted and the third is that of some older statesmen, slower of foot but more forgiving and accepting of everyone's efforts with a wry if perhaps dotty wisdom. I am firmly ensconced in the last of these three categories but still found myself on two occasions feeling more then the usual misgivings about attending that quixotic nocturnal ritual known as a night out at the theatre.
These two occasions were separated by approximately one year, both required admittance to a humble - and this even by the humble standards of 99 seat theatre in LA - theatre facility, and -
I will interrupt myself here because both evenings touted productions of David Mamet, first "Edmund" and then second "Oleanna." Familiar with both having seen professional productions of them in NYC and Chicago, and having witnessed many attempts at various shards of the plays in various action classes still I am free of any particular attitude about Mamet productions. So let's say I went full of the wisdom and open-mindedness of the truly, deeply opinionated and had a wonderful time on both occasions.
In both instances the joy was the result of the work of one Mr. Randy Robertson, and in both cases it was a complete surprise to me. Mr. Robertson has a naturalness on stage and an authenticity and confidence that I usually associate with years of experience and with a certain level of success in the business that the evenings inessentials - the set, costumes, lighting - did not suggest. He displayed an unusual ability to live on stage in present time and to absorb the numerous little surprises of flipped furniture or late entrances or a phone not ringing on cue with not only grace but with creativity and verve absorbing these accidents into the weave of the performance. These are gifts not even all experienced and lauded stage performers have and I was moved to ask Randy after which of these performance I do not now recall if he had started as a comedian.
I do not mean that in the sense of his being funny or facilely inventive but in the deeper sense of being light on his feet in front of an audience. Surprisingly he said he had not. Still it is a talent that only surfaces usually when an actor has spent a certain prodigious number of hours simply doing it and here I did not get the sense that as much as Randy deserves that mixed blessing that he had had that type of opportunity. All the worse for us theatergoers.
As the banal husband who simply cannot take it anymore in "Edmund" Randy captured the character's bemusement, his stubborn anger brilliantly. His grasp of the flow of the character from confused striking-out to realization and drive for meaning and satisfaction was as excellent as his moment-to-moment life on stage. The twisted finale where Edmund ironically embraces the bars of his real prison and his actual sadomasochistic impulses also had a nuanced and credible impulse behind them. I was looking for the root of rage that propelled and enlivened this journey but the more normal and natural progression of Randy's interpretation allowed me to see the character as more everyman and less as particular pathology which was as unsettling as it was insightful.
As the genuine, priggish, protected, overbearing yet still well meaning and engaged college professor in "Oleanna" Randy again brought his talents tellingly to bare. Randy accomplished the character traits necessary to drive the conflict of the play, without ever becoming a caricature. I completely believed that this man had no idea of how he was affecting this young girl just as I equally believed that he genuinely wanted to help her. On a strictly technical level, Randy succeeded in satisfying both the extreme physical challenge of Mamet's dialogue here while at the same time making that effort seem both effortless and organic. No mean feat as most performers manage either one or the other.
Well, to be wise if slightly dotty, most performers manage neither and so I am all the more grateful to Randy Robertson for his achievement. And so will you be if you are fortunate to catch him on the boards.
Mark Soper
About the Author:On film, Mark will always be remembered as the ill fated "gradual student," Michael Milton, in The World According to Garp (1982). Other roles include, the demented twin brothers, Terry and Todd in 'Nightmare at Shadow Ridge' where Mark starred opposite Louise Lasser. _Swordfish(2001)_ "General's Daughter' Phenomenon (1996) Bar Hopping (2000) (TV)_ The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II (1988) The In Crowd (1988) and Tempest (1982) directed by Paul Mazursky. On TV Mark starred in the films _Parole(1982)_ with Ellen Barkin and James Naughton Wilson's Reward (1980) (TV) opposite Sandy Dennis "The Mississippi" with Ralph Waite; Marvin Chmpsky's "Galactica 1980" (1980) and the Emmy Winning _Kent State_He has Guest Starred on "The Equalizer;" "T.J. Hooker;" and "Judging Amy." He has had reoccurring roles on "Luving" and "One Life to Live;" and was a Season Regular on _Knots Landing_" Mark is a founding member of the Grace Player's Theatre Company and a member of the Actor's Studio Directors, Playwriting Unit.
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