Theatre For Thought, June 16, 2012

AN UNENLIGHTENED CONVERSATION WITH ELIZABETH BLUE

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I met Elizabeth Blue a year ago but she still hasn’t met me. Such is the life of the actor: you perform a series of quirky quasi-autobiographical monologues and people start thinking they know you better then their own friends. Hoping to avoid embarrassment in case we bumped into each other on the street, I decided to contact her when I saw she was returning to the Fringe Festival – along with her new show One Week with the Shaman. I’m happy to report that now we’ve properly met - or at least as properly as anyone can meet in the digital world.

“I got into performing as a junior in high school,” Elizabeth Blue wrote in an email, no doubt sent from some quaint café in the heart of Manhattan. “I got the extra role in Into the Woods – Milky White the cow, a role previously given to a stuffed animal.” Apparently the role was such a hit that people to this day call her Milky White. “That cow really opened up doors for me,” she added.

First-Person: Elizabeth Blue on A Week With The Shaman (Fringe)

My show is my teacher

A Fringe newbie returns to Montreal…With a show that she wrote just so she could return to Montreal.

By Elizabeth Blue (photos by Eric Michael Pearson)

Note to self: Be careful when creating an intention to write the DEEPEST, most ENLIGHTENING show in the world.

Because there’s nothing like trying to write something enlightening to discover how completely unenlightened you are.

Montreal, there is something so, so special about your Fringe Festival. Maybe I am biased, because it was my very first time. And because the Montreal Fringe Festival is the BEST THING IN THE WORLD!  

I didn’t expect it to be so non-stop amazingly, purely FUN! And inspiring, enlivening, and many other beautiful adjectives.