Ugh. My planned workshop for Friday got cancelled. Nothing I can do, but I was so looking forward to it! I’ve been thinking about Tik Talk ever since I did the workshop last week. I had made a concrete plan on how I was going to approach the play and what I wanted to see. [...]
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I want them to get a firm grasp on the story. I want them to understand the language. I want them to be able to see that the characters and that the decisions the characters make are just not that far from modern characters.
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I read the play Copenhagen last week (I’m looking at plays that use science in some way). It didn’t grab me. Conceptually it’s right up my alley - it’s a “what if” play as in what if such and such a thing happened? I love and often write “what if” plays. I like taking [...]
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I’m working for the first time with an outside composer for the new Christmas play I’m working on. I heard the music yesterday which was pretty exciting. All our christmas plays have a music element to them, whether it’s versions of carols, or music put to poems. This is the first play that has [...]
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Have been in think mode for the past couple of days over the plays I workshopped on Wednesday. Sometimes workshops give crystal clear answers for a play, sometimes I need to let things roll around in my brain for awhile. My husband will often catch me staring into space - I’m not in a [...]
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Worked with two high school classes on two different plays today: a Christmas play with grade nines, and an abstract subtext play with grade 12’s. Of course, I was aprehensive about the younger kids and they were generally great. The Christmas play depends on acting silly and I was surprised at how easily the group [...]
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Welcome to my first blog entry! I’ll be writing here regularly and talking about plays I’m working on, problems I’m having, productions and so on. Hopefully you’ll find it interesting and hopefully I’ll be able to keep up with it.
I’m pretty excited about a recent British production. There’s a community theatre called The Riverside Players [...]
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