Tag: drama directing
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Ponderings on My First Show in 2 Years
Live theatre gets into the blood. When the curtain opens, and the nerves take over, and the hair stands on its end, and the bumps on your skin realize that it’s time, finally, after such a long hiatus, one begins to understand just how much the cult of theatre has seeped into the blood stream.…
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Audition Day
The day I hate to love. The day I love to hate. Both of these are true. I love audition day because it’s incredibly fun to see students come out and give you their best shot in attaining a role. But I hate that I love it because it’s a painful day. It’s painful because…
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You have a good show. Now make it great.
I’ve been working real hard with my drama group, getting ready for our Christmas show coming up the first week of December. We’ve spent a lot of hours working the 10 different scripts we’ll be performing that night, and I’ve been really happy with how they are coming together. It’s going to be an enjoyable…
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My Afternoon Poster
I was supposed to finish my novel this afternoon, but I just received some photos from our drama photo shoot, so I couldn’t resist putting together my new show’s first poster. I’m no photoshop expert, but I’m learning, and it is quite fun. I hate fonts, and need to learn about them. But I was…
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Ten Reasons My Re-staging was Better than the Original
I don’t know how many times a director or an artist gets to re-produce one of their own works. I did recently – re-staging my musical “A Tad of Trouble.” I wanted to make it better – much better than the original. And here’s 10 reasons why I think I succeeded: 1. Plot holes plugged…
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Oops! My fault: A Director’s Mea Culpa
My new show opens in one week. It’s a series of 10 individual dramatic sketches. As I watched all ten performed as a whole on Monday, I realized that one of them was bad. Really bad. It’s not the script. Actually, it’s an award-winning script which will soon be performed in Sydney. No, it wasn’t…
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Gearing Up: Final Weeks before my Next Show
I’ve been on break this past week and what a gift it has been. I’ve had substantial time to write, enabling me to get a fair chunk of novel five written in my Scrivener. I also wrote a short play and dabbled in a few other projects I’m working on. But as my precious break…
Author Mark W Sasse 