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Every so often, one works on something truly new, and it works out so well!The raving reviews are now in (cast: beware if you don't read reviews!) of pride@prejudice by Daniel Elihu Kramer at Chester Theatre Company (the site of my Berkshires directorial debut).Here are a few links and quotes:Fuse Theater Review: Jane Austen Tweets In Chester, MA"...two hours with nary a dull moment and the

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So, some of you know that my brother, who teaches high school drama in Santa Rosa, CA, is taking a group of students to perform at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland this summer. Due to the woeful state of finances in California, his school is offering no financial support -- and the demographics of his school mean that parents cannot afford to pay either.My bro has done an amazing job

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I'm pleased to announce my Berkshires directing debut!pride@prejudice, a wonderous small ensemble adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, by Daniel Elihu Kramer, for the Chester Theatre Company. July 6-17.The play not only tells the story of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy, but explores our love affair with the great book, Austen and the pleasures of reading (and writing blogs!).More info is here.

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For freelance theater folk, this is a recognizable conversation... but perhaps it says even more about the way a consumer-based culture is blind to the desires of art. It's also a great example of the way in which animation is effectively alienating.

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I just got this announcement of our Pride week here... note the mixer for members of Pride Alliance and the campus Christian group!

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For an example of a nicely descriptive college theater review, click here.

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More pics later, but for now, this one, and a few more if you click...

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My students collaborated on this promo for our production of the (until recently) neglected Ionesco classic... (pics by the cast & Michelle ; video by Josh; end sound by Greg)

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Follow Amherst College Theater and Dance Department on Facebook!Click here!

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Hero's hubby snapped some pics of Much Ado last week. Click on either pic to see more.

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This nifty website maps the locations of well over a hundred Shakespeare festivals and theaters across the country, far more than I'd thought. America is truly the land of Shakespeare performance, thriving far and wide, despite an overall lack of big media attention.One relatively young addition to this panoply of Shakespearean summer theater-making is Independent Shakespeare Company (ISC) in Los

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In the wine grape country of Northern California -- Santa Rosa to be precise -- an unusually comprehensive high school theater program that includes a special focus on student playwriting, has been invited to perform at the grand-daddy of all international theatre festivals, The Edinburgh International Festival in the summer of 2011.This is a great accomplishment for a multi-cultural, urban

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click on the sun aboveMuch Ado About NothingAugust 5 to August 29Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California

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It seems sometimes as though life turns in circles, like a dream... Earlier this year, I brought Sheila Callaghan's Fever/Dream to the students of Warren Wilson College. It is, of course, an adaptation of Calderon's classic, Life Is A Dream. Callaghan's brilliant take on the original was to mine its plot for contemporary themes related to the competing unrealities of corporate life and new

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What the Butler Saw has been extended through June 6!Read the rave here. If you are in the Asheville are, tix are available here.

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Amanda, the managing director for NC Stage, found this picture of a "What The Butler Saw" machine online. According to the source, these "tourist amusements used a set of flicking cards containing sequential photographs to simulate moving pictures; they were cheap attractions in the entrances to indoor amusement arcades on piers or on the seafront. They tended to contain quaint and voyeuristic

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Have you seen the bio pic about Joe Orton, Prick Up Your Ears?It's rentable (or Netflixable), but in the meantime, here's a link to a YouTube installment:For info on the current Asheville production of Orton's What The Butler Saw, go here.

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This is a nifty poster from 1975 Royal Court Theater revival of What The Butler Saw, recalling Orton's 'crime' of using creative cutouts to alter library books (and decorate his flat). The revival resurrected Orton's reputation, following the rather unsuccessful 1968 production of the play -- and Orton's grisly murder...To find out more about Mr. Orton and his last, especially brilliant, play,

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I hate to give things away before opening, but this is already looking rather nice...May 12-30, click here.

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What makes a super production of a Greek tragedy? Strong speaking, smart and passionate acting, physical dynamism... a little Butoh, hip sound, elegant costumes, an outdoor mini-Greek amphitheatre... and one head of cabbage.Plus, four most awesome seniors!! (...doing Senior Projects in directing, acting, costume design and sound design!)This weekend, through Tuesday! For more info, go here.

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Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone is open at NC Stage! It was a really fun show to work on, with a great and generous group of folks all 'round. I'm especially proud of all the help (and serious design & art work) provided by Warren Wilson students!A quote from John Crutchfield in The Mountain Express:Under the skillful direction of Ron Bashford, Dead Man’s Cell Phone is all that Ruhl could

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Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl, NC Stage, April 7-18 (with possible extension).

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Fever/Dream by Sheila Callaghan, March 4-7, 2010, Warren Wilson College

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A sweet, and somewhat unusual article, was published overnight in the Mountain Express.Here's the sweet quote:“I thought you might want to alert Mountain Xpress readers who love good theatre that they should not miss the opportunity to see the Warren Wilson Theatre production of a new play called Fever/Dream by Sheila Callaghan, which plays through this weekend. The play is a witty send-up of

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Fever/Dream An Adaptation of Calderon’s Life is a DreamSheila Callaghan’s Fever/Dream is fresh from its debut and appearing on Warren Wilson’s stage. This new production is a regional premiere!March 4-7Thursday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pmKittredge Theatre on the Warren Wilson College CampusSTUDENTS OF ANY SORT ARE FREE with ID.Seniors, alumni, staff and faculty only $5, all others

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I think this is stunning. It's a real photo of a supernova (lower left). I'd like to see more things of this ilk on stage -- somehow.I got this pic here.

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Pretty funny promos for the upcoming Dead Man's Cell Phone produced by Immediate Theater Project. My YouTube debut (as none other than myself)! I'll embed one here soon (as soon as I get permission).Click here to see the videos.

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I've added some links to a previous post about my spring plans. Check them out here.

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Where else can students get such a practical education in all aspects of theater production and a first-class liberal arts education? Warren Wilson College, of course. Here's the most recent press release written by a student in our "Theatre Office Crew". What it doesn't mention is that student designers are in charge of sound, props and video projection!Regional Premiere of Sheila Callaghan’

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Just a little news, until the next post of substance...A busy spring lies ahead:For the Warren Wilson College Department, I'll be directing Fever/Dream by Sheila Callaghan, performing March 4-7. The play is an adaptation of Calderon's Life Is A Dream. Go here for more info! Rehearsals have been fun and wacky so far, and Callaghan is a wonderful playwright.At NC Stage, I'll be doing my first

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I can't help thinking this also makes a slice of life into a kind of performance.

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Thursday through Saturday at 8, Sunday at 7. Call (828) 771-3040 for reservations.For more ticket info and directions, click here.

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I grew up in Massachusetts. Ted Kennedy was my Senator for about half my life. When I was in the Boy Scouts, my troop had its picture taken with him on the steps of the Senate office building. On that same trip, sometime in the mid-1970s, we visited the grave site of his brothers, John and Robert, at Arlington National Cemetery.In June of this year, my family and I visited Arlington. My

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Some personal news: I've moved to Asheville, North Carolina. I'll be teaching theatre at Warren Wilson College, directing at North Carolina Stage Company and continuing my freelance work from a new base! But I'll keep racking up the airline miles hopping up to good old NYC!But more importantly, we have cows:The directing year ahead is busy: The Winter's Tale and a new play (rights pending) at

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It's a bit late to publish pics from March. As the spring flew by the photos were neglected. Nevertheless, I am still proud to have worked this year with two committed young artists, Glenn Reed and Lauren Kriel, on, respectively, Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno, and 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane. The titles below the pics will take you to their albums.From Thom PainFrom 4.48 Psychosis

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I've been pondering some issues to write about, and regretting that I've decided not to go to Europe this summer, particularly Germany. So in honor of the moment, here are some amusing vids.

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Subtitle: Didi and Gogo are not Kirk and Spock or why read the New Yorker?My recent post about "interpretive criticism" caused a tiny tempest in a teapot on a local blog. It was never about the critics' opinions per se. (Nor did anyone really respond to mine.) But there was, perhaps, a simpler way to make my point:I just read two recent, big-publication reviews. Both contain equal helpings

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The recent HATCHfest in Asheville, North Carolina was"the first international mentoring festival for the creative and media arts communities. This festival is a celebration that springs naturally from the HATCH mission: To provide mentorship, education, inspiration and recognition to the next generation of creative innovators."The festival was organized by discipline: architecture, design/tech,

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One (or two) of the most inventive traveling theatre companies in the world are coming to SpolettoUSA in Charleston, SC next month.A couple of years ago, I was lucky enough to see a production adaptation of Cymbeline by the Cornwall-based company, Kneehigh, and loved it! They make exciting original theatre, take it everywhere and keep their own unique repertory of shows alive... At Spoletto,

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“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” - Oscar Wilde, in a letter I'm in the temporarily enviable position of having directed a show of which I'm proud and of having two contradictory (and totally different) reviews published about it. The positive review is in the local big broadsheet. As usual, it's more

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I came across the following:Forgan called for both public and private funders to maintain their levels of investment in the arts, and for artists to see themselves not as victims of the recession but as a key part of its solution. She said: “The arts council has three over-arching aims as we plan for the coming years - great art for everyone will be our mission in life. We will continue to

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Click here.

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The New York Pops (the symphony orchestra that plays music from the Great American Songbook at Carnegie Hall) is hosting their Annual Gala on Monday, April 27th. Proceeds from the 26th Birthday Gala support The New York Pops and its education programs and free Summermusic concerts throughout New York City.Broadway star, Idina Menzel will be among those performing, and the new musical director of

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I work with the NYC-based new music ensemble Sequitur. Sequitur's artistic director, Harold Meltzer (and one of my oldest and best friends), was today named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in the music category. For those of you in the Asheville area with sonic memories, I used a portion of Harold's harpsichord concerto, Virginal, in the 2005 NC Stage production of Yazmina Resa's play, Art.>>> You

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What can I say? Something's going on... this is not the only example of performance happening anywhere, everywhere...

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Actors Graham Smith and Charles Flynn-McIver in A Number by Caryl Churchill at NC Stage in Asheville, NCThis is about as simple as it gets. (Click on pic for a larger version.)

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The beginning of the final scene of our production of Caryl Churchill's A Number has been stunningly lit by designer Sarah Elliot. A cool, sculpted atmosphere slowly resolves into a warm halo with the clarity of bright sunlight.Today, we re-worked the penultimate scene of the play. We're already in previews, and the play is in better shape at this point in the process than any I've worked on.

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Sometimes those of us who work in the theatre forget how being at live theate can feel for some folks in the audience, especially if it's new to them. It's worth remembering that there are always (we hope) people considering coming to the theatre for the first time, or encountering a new kind of show or new way of doing a show. For such newbies, the message we can send is that coming to live

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Elizabeth Dacy, our blogger who is reporting on the NC Stage production of Caryl Churchill's A Number, asked me to write about my decision to stage the play "in the round." So, here goes.As I've noted, on the page, Churchill's text is not like that of many other plays, though it is reminiscent of Beckett and Pinter. However, as we've discovered in rehearsal, the playing of A Number is more

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Musical version of Marx's 'Das Kapital' is planned...

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"A play is like a child. It begins as an infant and grows to reach maturity. A play travels across a vast range of stages of life. Exploring different directions it can go, stretching and growing until it discovers itself. The director is its parent fostering its abilities and guiding its path. Actors are what give it life. They grow along with it. A play is an entity, a life-force. You can

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I just found this:"We are committed to creating new work for theatre that imaginatively engages our audience and makes them laugh. It is these two things, imagination and laughter, that drives us."No catch phrases, no pretentious high-mindedness, a mission statement that may really drive the activities of the company.Who is it? Some young folks from across the pond, with a pretty interactive

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Late to the party?I am.But I am finding, bit by bit, the varied and increasingly connected world of theatresites and blogs on the Internet.I've been a fan of the Guardian Theatre Blog for a while: a rare example of a mainstream newspaper concerned with more than just pithy reviews.My new jumping-off point is Alison Croggin's Theatre Notes, an Australian blog with an extensive, international list

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On the page, the play seems spare: the speeches are mostly short, within narrow margins, and the there is a noticeable shortage of punctuation and capitalization. On further inspection, most utterances seem grammatically fractured. So one's first impression of the play is that of a mystery waiting to be solved, daunting and detailed.Spoken aloud, the text of Caryl Churchill's 2002 play A

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I had the perverse pleasure -- in more ways than one -- of seeing Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon act side-by-side in the unlikely Broadway production of Eugene Ionesco's vaudevillian meditation of narcissism and non-existence, Exit The King.The contrast between the two performers presented a familiar lesson about the difference between stage and screen acting: breathing, presence, quicksilver

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4.48 Psychosis performs March 4, 6 & 8 at 8:00 p.m. and March 7 at 2 p.m.Thom Pain (based on nothing) performs March 5 & 7 at 8:00 p.m., March 6 at 10:30 p.m. and March 8 at 2 p.m.All performances are at Kittredge Theatre on the Warren Wilson College Campus.For reservations, call (828) 771-3040.or write to theatre@warren-wilson.eduMore information can be found here.

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This little animation has little to do with the aesthetics of theater, but it has, does, and will affect us all in the arts and in many other ways.It's a pretty damn good visualization of the mechanics of the credit crisis. Yet to emerge more fully in art is the culture of the credit crisis...The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

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How does a director rehearse a one-actor show? What about two really different ones at once? Depends on who the actor is -- or are.I'm currently working on 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane, and Will Eno's Thom Pain (based on nothing), to be performed in repertory in a few weeks. Significantly, the two actors hard at work on each of these rather dense texts are undergraduates, undertaking their

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a collage blog, or bloggageGet ready to use the button on your browser!There's so much to click! Even the pictures! It's interactive! Kinda like.... ! The NEA says there are more theaters, but fewer theater-goers, though raising ticket prices wouldn't hurt attendance (and therefore total income), much. Huh??Theatre Command Group thinks the "zoo" needs a new

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Praise is worth heaping on the BAM/Old Vic 'Bridge Project,' and its first production of The Cherry Orchard, which I saw at its first preview. Tom Stoppard provides a deft adaptation of the original Chekhov. It's called the "Bridge Project" because half of the actors are British and half are Yanks.The cast will work together for a year and tour the world, and began by spending two months

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What John Cleese says in the video below is deceptively simple.I like what he has to say about the unconscious affect of boundaries and authority on creativity.Time, space and relationships are what it's all about.

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Last night, I attended the postponed first performance of this year's first splashy educated-people-of-culture-mainstream event, that is, Tom's Stoppard's new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard directed by Sam Mendes and playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, produced as part of the US/UK "Bridge Project" mandate of Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic in London. Whew! So many important

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History is real! And so is the legacy of ancient theater...BBC NEWS | Europe | Naples sex strike over fireworks

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Call it blog burn-out, or reality triumphing over virtuality, but I imagine everyone who starts a blog drops it for a time after the first blush...2009: time to blog again about shows, aesthetics, theater biz, New York, Asheville and theater-in-the-liberal arts...In the scant meantime, here's an article about a kind of coming-of-age. When the press publishes this kind of thing, a company knows

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I had the good fortune to meet Terrence Rigby in 1995 when he played the Ghost and the Player in the Jonathan Kent/Ralph Finnes Hamlet...A tribute is here.

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The Lincoln Center Theater added a page to its site:Who's DirectingVisit the site. See the shows!

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I'm participating in an ongoing re-structuring of a college theater program. At the same time an administrative "division" is being created to organize all the departments called 'arts & humanities'. There is of course a blog about this, but it's closed. However, I want to share what I recently posted there, here:I did a little exercise a while back. I had been noticing that the hierarchy of

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I will be teaching full time at Warren Wilson College for '08/'09. Warren Wilson is an 800-student liberal arts college near Asheville, NC. It's a "work college" where the students do all the usual labor of keeping the place running--there is even a "theater crew."The theater program seems to be growing. I'll be helping to re-shape the curriculum towards a "collaborative model" and developing a

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kilometrix.dancerun.4Foofwa d'Imobilité acceptance speech of the Swiss Prize of Dance and Choreography in Bern, Sw, May 2006Frenzy

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I started this blog in March -- along with my website -- mostly as a way of defining an identity for myself that would be outside of my head and beyond my productions -- the one having limited space and access (that is, my head - apologies to Hamlet) and the other of limited duration (my productions).But I didn't write too much here at first, except to refer a bit to some other stories, some

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Wrap of days 17 & 18 of the LCT Theatre Directors Lab(June 6 & 7)It is high time I tied up the loose ends of the last two day of the lab... (You can read more about these two days in previous posts.) On the final Friday morning of the LCT Directors Lab, a group gathered to discuss theater in the UK and Canada. Lab directors from each of our English-speaking cousin-nations talked with about 20

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What's one way to play your own game? Playbill found the source: "Turns out [Mark] Rylance's speech was actually the prose of a Duluth, Minnesota, poet named Lewis Jenkins. Rylance chose Jenkins' Back Country to deliver. Rylance said, 'I tried one of [Jenkins' works] out at the Drama Desk Awards, and it went down well.' "

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(June 7)I'm finishing up the last few posts of my account of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab slightly out of order now, but given that the Tony Awards were just the other night, this entry is most timely.Anna D. Shapiro was our last guest, in the afternoon of our last day. Like Bartlett Sher before her, she urged us to leave New York City to develop as artists. For those interested in "

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It's amazing that this debate still persists.The beauty is they can be done again and again.Come to the theater without an agenda, or......choose the Cymbeline you wish you'd seen.(Left: Lincoln Center TheaterRight: the UK's Kneehigh)

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Two of my friends are concertizing at London's Wigmore Hall this coming Monday evening (19.30h). Sarah Laimon, praised for her intelligent interpretations of American music (and all-around fantasic playing in my opinion) will be playing Harold Meltzer's Piano Sonata. Sarah is also playing works by Laura Kaminsky and Ezra Laderman. All three composers' works at Wigmore are UK premieres.Sarah,

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Travis Chamberlain, a director & new friend, does alot of curatorial work downtown. Today he sent me some recommendations. Whether you can go or not, check out the sites and get a take a little taste of a slice of avant-garde pie in NYC ... Here's his missive:(from Travis Chamberlain)VANGELINE THEATER AND RAY SWEETEN GET MESMERIZED AT THE NEW MUSEUM THIS FRIDAYI have curated another event at the

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(June 6)Our penultimate day began with a smaller group discussion of theater in Canada and the UK, with lab directors from among our ranks sharing their knowledge... however, I am going to write about this (and the evening's big party) in a separate post ...Later that morning and in the afternoon, we attended presentations of two projects that were in rehearsal this week, the adapted Ernst Toller

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Just a quick note today for those of you who have been following my blog, particularly since I began my participation in the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab:Although the LCT Directors Lab has officially ended, I still have the last two days of the lab to chronicle, including the final "future of the lab" session, after which I intend to write a bit more about the impact of the lab, the "

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Tonight, I attended the new Tracy Letts play at the Music Box Theater, August Osage County. It was directed by Anna Shapiro, a lab guest about whom I have yet to write. This is probably the best new American play to reach Broadway since Angels In America, and makes the best axiomatic case for ensemble acting companies we currently have. Alas, the cast will change after the Tonys. More thoughts to

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(June 5)Aubrey Sekhabi is the artistic director of the South African State Theater, a large, six-stage complex in Pretoria that must draw diverse audiences, and serve as both a magnet and developer of the theatrical arts in a country that is both old and very new. Sekhabi spoke unpretentiously and without stopping, for over an hour, telling us of his journey from a township where he made theater

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The first day, on my way in ...

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Bart Sher visited us yesterday. Today, it's Anna Shapiro. There was a big party last night and there will be a discussion about Playwrights & Directors this morning...I will be completing Days 16, 17 & 18 sometime tonight or tomorrow...Addendum: the post describing Bartlett's Sher's visit to the Lab is here.Addendum: the post describing Anna Shapiro's visit to the Lab is here.

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... Seventeen, Eighteen, and then it's done. Now there's a little whirlwind of social activity, so the blogging will come ... and then some expansions on things I hope to write more about...When it comes, Day Sixteen at the LCT Directors Lab included the director of the state theatre of Pretoria (South Africa), and huge discussion combining all of us and many new guests from other countries ...

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Today's itinerary included a visit by Jack O'Brien, attending the Broadway musical Passing Strange, and a session on Anne's "international initiative."Jack O'Brien may be a Svengali of theatrical love, but he's pretty convincing. Not content to sit and answer questions, when he felt that he was even slightly losing his audience he stood and conducted the remainder of his visit on his feet,

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I started the day observing the first table session of a workshop to adapt an early 20th century play by Ernst Toller. The play is now largely unknown (thought Toller is not entirely forgotten -- I did a piece about him for actor and cello at the Joyce Soho). The director, who is not a member of this year's lab, spent most of the hour giving the background of the period, Toller, the play, his

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Something begins and we know it will last for a certain period of time: a play, the seasons, a year of school, a day, a relationship, a directors' laboratory.About half-way through, aware or unaware, something changes by measuring the beginning against the potentiality of the ending. After this point, one's experience stops leading directly to an expected point, but begins to move outward in

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This morning I attended a particpatory session on games: circle games, sound & movement games, improv games, etc.: lots of ways for actors (or kids & students) to relax, have fun, contect to each other, explore space, change their energy and even generate or score material for a production. I especially liked "flocking" which seemed to me limitless in its possibilities. It's not something a do

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Macbeth presentations were held this morning, and my project went first, since I was letter "A". My cast stayed true to the kind of work we had been doing, and adjusted in subtle ways to the presence of a larger audience. Anne announced "Group A" and I said nothing. The room became quiet and after a few moments the actors began, as they usually do if I just stop talking.It is worth describing

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This afternoon I attended a discussion led by Anne regarding religious plays and how they might translate or be received in different countries and cultures. The participants each discussed a play and a possible country to produce it in. This process will continue next week with the addition of a number of established directors from around the world.In the evening, our "Directors on Directors"

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Instead of beginning rehearsal as usual for the last three days, we were called to a meeting of the morning Macbeth groups (2 directors, 12 actors, 2 designers, 2 design consultants and Anne).Using tact and by way of describing Labs past, Anne told us that we were going to switch rehearsal spaces for today's rehearsal, in the spirit of experimentation. If you've been reading these posts, you

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There have been afternoon rehearsals for the other directors working on Macbeth this week, as well as a directors-initiated exploration into exploring the witches from the point of view of different religions which culminated today.In the evening, we had a two-part discussion regarding the director-lighting designer relationship. We were visited by the Tony-winning MacDevitt/Posner/Katz team who

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Macbeth rehearsal this morning was satisfying. After a couple days of free work, the group moved to broader and more specific concerns today, more willing to talk from their own experience of the work we've done, and to feel their way, without pre-direction, through the "story" of Act III, without resorting to realistic banalities, or an exactly logical event order. This group seems to be

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Macbeth rehearsal was both early and short today, due to afternoon shows taking place at LCT. I continued doing free improvisational work, after reading through the text again with the cast. A kind of "aha" moment occurred when I realized that, to bring "the ramp" into "the large rehearsal room" for the presentation, we would now have to bring the large rehearsal room into the space of the ramp

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I took part of the afternoon off, since I've decided not to observe other Macbeth rehearsals.Sessions initiated by Lab members are starting to happen. The first I attended was on the Tectonic/moments process and last week's rehearsal project. The director and writer were very helpful in contextualizing the process and explaining it further. In particular, one might jump to an erroneous

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