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« on: August 09, 2008, 01:56:41 AM »
1st official DS dream... 1968 I guess, the setting, though dreamed today. I was some unspecified man Julia was bringing into their situation without warning or explanation, just assurances that I was necessary and trustworthy. This is just what Barnabas loves to hear, of course. She splits, I'm left on my own with Barnabas, who then for some reason has to leave just that moment, leaving me completely on my own. He's half mortified at the thought that I'm going to be alone there to do who know what, but he has to go.
I am trustworthy in this piece, but it was fun watching Barnabas not know that, not knowing how much I knew (everything), not even being able to have a real conversation because he couldn't afford to give anything away. So a lot of tension from him, no tension from me, since I knew things were alright.
This thing veers back and forth between my being an actor speaking my first couple of lines in my first scene in DS (I'm not a professional and am anxious, hoping I just turn out to be a "natural" I guess), to my being the character.
This was not the Old House. Barnabas had a cramped (studio?) apartment, a long but narrow room, crammed with wooden antiques, split level, with three or four steps up needed to get to one end, which was just big enough for a (rolltop?) desk and not much else.