Mother Antonia: 6 hours at the Sisters of St. Joseph Archive. A little while ago, the archivist got in touch to ask if the play would include anything about Mother Antonia’s relationship with Sister Ste. Helene? Because they just happen to be working on processing Ste. Helene’s papers….So spent most of the day reading Ste....
Tag: Studying
Conducting research and organizing material.
big names
The Last Game: Reading Collision Course. Evidently the formation of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization advanced quite rapidly after a controller at La Guardia recognized that the private jet he was handling was piloted by F. Lee Bailey. He got in touch with him later. Mother Antonia: Finished taking notes on Liberating Sanctuary. An...
some irony
The Last Game: Reading Collision Course. Learned that Wisconsin was (in 1959) the first state to pass legislation allowing collective bargaining by public sector employees.
learning what we lived through
The Last Game: Started reading Joseph McCartin’s Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America. Dramaturg Heather H. suggested that I foreground the play’s 1980s time period; so this is by way of background.
back to baseline
Erika: Watched a video on optimization. It’s All Good: Worked on rehearsal schedule.
not nothin’
The Last Game: Trying to sketch out Dori’s side of the story – her Hamlet to 23 & 24’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. Reading up a little on deregulation in the early 80s. Everything Looks Like A Face: Email exchange with Elizabeth. Mother Antonia: Reading scheduled for Friday.
reprieve
It’s All Good: Had a thought about a way to connect Lord of the Flies, the character’s personal situation, and current events. We’ll see if it works. The Last Game: The grant I thought was due Thursday is actually due Monday, making it much more realistic that I can have a new draft of this...
M.A. & PBK
Mother Antonia: Finding places to expand and elaborate. Took a look at the correspondence between S. Antonia and the Phi Beta Kappa gatekeepers. I get the impression they were intimidated by her. Perhaps because (for instance) when invited to give input on their assessment, she goes at it paragraph by paragraph.
snapshot 1904
Mother Antonia: Worked on draft 2. Ran into an unexpected obstacle when I tried to come up with a snapshot of women’s rights in Minnesota in 1904. Obviously women couldn’t vote in state and national elections, but what else were they formally barred from doing on the basis of sex? There are lists like this...
comma mater
Everything Looks Like A Face: Sketched out an overture/montage/dumb show to establish the out-of-chronological-order storytelling style of the mosaic version. Mother Antonia: Did some reading in S. Helen Angela Hurley’s On Good Ground: The Story of the Sisters of St. Joseph in St Paul to try to get back in the groove; new draft due...