One thing my theatre friends and I spend a lot of time thinking about is how to make theatre more accessible to the masses. I sometimes think theatre is a crazy way to spend a life. Production is expensive in money, time, and energy, and it has a limited audience–and therefore an arguably limited effect … More Theatre Audience 101: Avoiding the Cost Barrier
So, last year it was decided that I was spread too thin and that I should hire someone else for one of my 20 jobs at HHS. The things that I had to give up was Stage Crew. Wayne found a wonderful woman named Becca, who has been working with us. The first thing I … More Gammy misses her kids.
*Warning: the content of this piece may be too fantastically brilliant for readers to comprehend* For lack of a better title…. Ode to the Costume Room Before me are thousands of people just waiting to be born and discovered. However, they have to be created by someone willing to become a completely different person, whether … More Ode to the Costume Room
“Please fill out this paperwork and bring it back.” Waiting (if the play an instrument): (if they don’t): “You’re on deck.” Entering the audition space: Leaving:
“Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn’t mean that people didn’t have sex, pick their nose, or swear.” -Kate Winslet As we look at a season filled with stories either set or written long ago, it’s interesting to think about how much or really little we have changed. 100 … More Modernity in Antiquity
Before the class had even begun, these advanced acting students already had a homework assignment… come with a memorized monologue to the first day of class. This is their presentation.
A little late, but here is the Last Final Production from the 2013 Theatre Seminar Class…
There is a lush thunder storm playing outside my window and screen door. I’ve holed myself up next to the door listening to the late night noise. As a child, night was my most creative time of the day. As I grew up, I learned that all humans are more creative at night, before bed … More Director’s Block
…is being allowed to explore the truth of experiences I’ve never had and feelings that are not my own. Playing different characters in different fictions and different worlds is like traveling to foreign countries. Characters I play may do things differently from me, may feel differently, may react differently in different situations, but they are … More “The best thing about acting…
A theater feels like home to me. The physical building that is a theater: home. The seats in the house, the stage, the backstage area: home. Any theater, really, and I always have the feeling of comfort. I have had many homes in my lifetime, The Waterfront theatre in Ronenoke NC, the Gaiety Theatre and … More There’s no place like Home
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