Category: 2011
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A Little Encouragement to Come See the Show . . .
The workshop is moving along at its usual breakneck unstoppable pace. Pieces are being blocked, lines are being learned, platforms are being dutched. All seems to be going well. I always promise myself I will blog at the end of the day, but it is hard to blog after nine hours of rehearsal when you…
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Stein and Breuer group
Well I woke up an hour before I needed to this morning and in order to keep myself awake, I decided to bake some scones (I also have entirely too much heavy wipping cream in my fridge, and scone making uses up a cup of cream). So my Stein group, who all wrote a lot of nice…
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Svenska är kul.
I just finished all the typing for my Stein group that I’m co-directing with Josh. So much good material, but I look forward to cutting it down into a good size and organizing it on Sunday with Stein group. Also I got to translate a bunch of Swedish, which made me really happy, because it’s…
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Breuer and Stein
I got a crazy good workout these past two days from set building. Monday was 9-4 and Tuesday was 9-2. Everything is built except the short ladders to the ramp between the audience. [I’ll take pictures tomorrow.] Chad and I met at 1 with Barbara and Mercedes to have Breuer small group meeting. It was…
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Back from the Underworld
Today we picked the Target Story and it’s ORPHEUS! So much fodder! This story makes a most excellent target story: Tragic love A trip to the underworld Maenads Small groups are Churchill, Schenkar, Stein, Breuer, and Open Theater. Large groups are to be decided by the directors at 9am tomorrow at Bluestem Bistro. I look…
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Session 4: The Motion Alone is Not Enough
In session four we got a little more deeply into some vocal work. We used a line from Beckett’s Footfalls: The motion alone is not enough. Get it? Anyway, the whole room saying “the motion alone is not enough” as though they were chainsaws was pretty interesting. When we asked them to say it as…
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Session 3: Lesson I Bleed and EAT YOUR HEART OUT DIMITRI TIOMKIN
-by gwethalyn We began our post warm up movement in session three by making a couple of machines. In this exercise each individual player makes a rhythmic sound and repeats a physical action to go with the sound, the machine is built by one person starting and everyone else adding on with their sound and…
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Session 2, part 2: Open Theater’s Images, Our Images
-by gwethalyn We began our reading of The Open Theater’s “ceremony” The Serpent by reading a scene titled “Kennedy-King Assassination.” In the scene four actors visually recreate the figures in the convertible from the iconic video clip of JFK’s assassination, the rest of the actors are bystanders although one stands aside miming the act of…