I’ve finally started reading Lear for the first time. Yes, my top-notch Tennessee education never broached the subject, and until now, I had not seen fit to do so for myself. Since there is nothing else going on here, how about this: name a role you might like to play (doesn’t even have to be [...]
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I would like to propose a way forward; not in product, but in process. Not that there’s anything wrong with talking about product(ions). That should continue, I think, and must. But speaking just for myself, there’s always a sharp disjunction between what I think about potential productions and what i do when I’m engaged in [...]
Back in the summer, I short-circuited the play-acting we were doing in The Art of Being Off-Task by claiming that I had found the answer to the problem. I coyly held out on the group till I was back in town, but I still want to hold back, in a way. What I found was [...]
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
We could actually do this, you know. I’m remembering John Russell Brown’s Free Shakespeare, in which he proposes that we do away with directors and designers and instead just cast some actors, send them their sides, have them memorize their lines, maybe let them meet on and off for a couple of weeks, and then [...]
Here we discuss the George Lichtenberg Film Project.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Where do we go from here?
[This article is cross-posted from Dale's blog.] I continue reading A Perfect Mess, and now it’s actually proving useful. [from A Perfect Mess, p. 168] University of Milan researcher Mario Benassi refers to spin-up-friendly companies as “modular” companies, and espouses three basic principles for them: growing in pieces instead of holistically; being as quick to [...]
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
On Wednesday, January 10, anyone who is interested should come to the Newnan School of Dance at 7:00 pm. We will listen/look at the complete Visit to William Blake’s Inn. Interested in what? hearing the complete music discussing the possibilities for performance hearing more about how we’ll work on this setting up a schedule to [...]
Friday, September 29, 2006
I’ve found a new stream and invite any and all to play in it. Yesterday, I was remembering a conversation I had with a teacher a number of years ago and thinking about using it as the basis of a possible article or essay entitled something like Ideology, Theory, and Creative Intuition. Juicy title, eh? [...]
In a recent e-mail I suggested that streams of comments often read like electric exchanges in a piece of dramatic poetry. This, I proferred, was a good thing. Such a good thing, I think, that I would like to take it a bit further: why not use our comment streams as opportunities to rehearse and [...]
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