Tag: drama
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Our Latest Readers’ Theatre
We had a ton of fun last night putting on our third annual readers’ theatre – this time our rendition of the famous 4077th in South Korea! If you’ve never attended a Readers’ Theatre, it’s a fun and unique event. We like to go all out – unique staging (our stage was 40 feet long…
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A Little Christian-Themed Drama
I was asked to write a few dramatic sketches for some meetings we were having this month, and I had a lot of fun putting together some Christian-themed drama – some dramatic – some down-right silly like “Birds on a Wire” which had two birds watching humans fret about all the little details of their…
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The Biggest Mistake of Young Actors
The biggest (or one of the biggest) mistakes of young actors is not spending nearly enough time inside the script. I’ve directed a lot of young actors over the past eight years, and it never ceases to happen that as a show nears performance, I hear one actor say, “Oh, so that’s what that means!”…
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Theatre Production – So Many Hats
I’m back into full-swing theatre mode. So much of my day revolves around theatre and drama, and, of course, I love all of it. But it is a telling sign of what’s to come. Here’s a quick run-down of all theatre related items I did today. A colleague came to talk to me about a…
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Meeting up with the Footstool Players
My drama group, The RLT Players, had an awesome afternoon yesterday meeting up with the group which provided the inspiration to start our own group. It was wonderful beyond belief to have these veteran actors and all around great people willing to spend a couple hours to talk about about acting and other aspects of…
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A Walk Through Our Final Rehearsal
8:30 Arrive. Set-up and arrange microphones, drama cubes, and props into their proper place. 9:00 The director (me) throws a curve at all the actors and redoes the last piece without warning. We relearn movement, pacing, and timing to match perfectly with the choreographed dancing and music. After about the 4th run-through, they get it.…
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What’s different about writing drama? (Coming Soon! My new show!)
I love writing novels. I wish I could do it full time for a living. But for pure enjoyment, what I do with drama probably tops novel-writing. Most likely it is the case because with drama I get to take my work and put it into production right away. Plus I get to collaborate with…
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RLT – The Little Group Near to My Heart
I’ve teaching, directing, and writing drama for a number of years now. I guess it’s been seven and a half years. I’ve learned so much – mostly that I don’t know much about acting or directing. (On the writing part I think I’m okay.) I get to work with young high school actors – some…
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