Tag: theatre
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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…
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Is Fictional Storytelling being Diminished in Theatre?
I enjoyed reading THIS opinion piece on fictional storytelling and verbatim theatre. Honestly, I know very little about verbatim theatre and have not had an opportunity to see any verbatim shows up to this point. What is ‘verbatim theatre’ you might ask? It’s theatre which uses the real words of people who have been interviewed. Actors…
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Our new show – “For All Generations”
Today I organized the read-through for the nine new scripts that I wrote (mainly) this summer which will be produced as a show called “For All Generations.” It will be performed by my lovely and fun drama group called The RLT Players. This is our fourth year to be producing a cohesive work of short…
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Writing: On the Spot Inspiration
Where does writing inspiration come from? I suppose every writer would answer this in different ways. I love what I call “on the spot” inspiration, when an idea suddenly strikes me out of the blue and it is seemingly unconnected with anything else I had been previously thinking. Then from that small kernel, a solid…
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When realism made everything unrealistic.
When does trying to be real backfire and become realistic? I guess this is the journey I’ve been on in the theatre these past seven years. I started out as a director trying to make everything on stage seem as realistic as possible. I remember the first play I wrote, we figured out how to…
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The Purpose of Dress Rehearsals
I’ve been directing stage plays for seven years now. I’m no professional, and I’ve learned a lot throughout the years. Dress rehearsals are the emotional peak that every director has to scale before a new show. Once it arrives and the actors poke through the clouds and stand on that emotional peak, a director’s job…
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Stage Painting: Day 2 (4 days till showtime!)
After backbreaking painting the day before, we (and I still mean all the real artists who know what they are doing) finished our stage for Boardwalk Melody: An Original Musical. Here’s what we did: This is where we finished the day before. A light brown paint over the boardwalk. Then came texture on the boards.…
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Ever Try a Readers’ Theatre?
I have now been part of two Readers’ Theatre Productions. What’s a Readers’ Theatre? It is as it sounds. The actors have scripts in their hands and read the play aloud, using vocal inflections and limited movement to replicate the emotion of a dramatic production. Or at least that’s how most Readers’ Theatres are described.…
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