You write about what you can

I've always liked to break down performances and analyze them.  I love watching direction and seeing how it affects performances, and I love watching the same actor give a different interpretation of the same line.  These days, I'm frequently exposed to wonderful performances in one of the best theatre cities in the world; however, when I was interning at The Late Show With David Letterman, between the internship, running the light board on an Off-Off-Broadway show, tutoring a student in neuro-psych, and taking dance classes, I didn't have much opportunity to watch theatre.  So I wrote about... an actor in a chicken suit.  Proving no performance is too small for good direction to make a difference, a snippet from my college internship journal:

...I also had a chance to watch more of the Late Show director's excellent direction this week.  One bit involved a man in a chicken suit who was supposed to jump and run around the theatre as the Olympic mascot.  Though the bit was cut, it was amusing to watch and listen to the director's direction and how that changed the chicken's performance.  I wouldn't have thought such a seemingly simple role could take so much direction, but the director did a great job of conveying exactly what he wanted and getting it out of the guy in the chicken suit.  The direction that finally made the chicken-suit performance click:  "You know when you watch a baseball game and there's that guy jumping up and down on the mound and you think 'he must be a complete asshole.'  Be that guy.  Be a total s**t-head."  And it totally worked.