I’m just back from Chicago, where I went to attend the first table read of the Babes with Blades production of The Good Fight. It’s a tremendously sharp team, and I can’t wait to see what they create. I’ve done some rewrites on the script since Theatre Unbound produced it in 2012, largely based on...
Tag: Rehearsing
Preparing a text for performance.
Scruffy history
Babes With Blades just announced the cast for their 2018 production of The Good Fight. I thought I’d mark the occasion by re-posting an entry I wrote for Theatre Unbound’s production in 2012, about the struggle for women’s rights in the USA. In the spring of 2000, I was on a solo road trip to...
it’s not what’cha do but the way howt’cha do it
Mother Antonia: First rehearsal. Megan and Anya begin to dig in, question and experiment. It becomes really, really clear that I have borrowed a great deal of “Mother Antonia”‘s shtick from my 12th-grade English teacher, Mr. Slevin. Who was Jesuit-educated, so I suppose it fits. Today’s post title, in his honor, is one of his...
next target
Mother Antonia: Next reading scheduled for May 5.
rehearsing faces
Everything Looks Like A Face: Attended rehearsal. Erika: Watched a video.
practicing pareidolia
Everything Looks Like A Face: attended a rehearsal of the songs.