Hello! My name is Caitlin and I am a student at Stuart Hall School. I am enrolled in the Theater Emphasis program and am thus required to create a capstone project that relates to performances in Theater and the like. I am also writing this for a final grade in Journalism Honors. The Shakespeare in [...]
Read further anon →The cast of the Salt Lake Community College’s black box production of Twelfth Night is officially through the table work portion of rehearsal. I find it sad to see these days behind us, as table work is often my favorite part of any production, but now it is time to put all the talk into [...]
Read further anon →Monday, February 15
Today we ran Act I, both in class and at night. The night time was more of a work-through than a run-through.
Tuesday, February 16
At 7:00 pm we blocked 4.2. The actress playing Macduff’s son was double booked and could not be there, but my 8-year-old son, Ben, who helped with [...]
Read further anon →Sorry for my blogging failure last week. My personal life kind of exploded in the combined events of a blizzard and a furnace outage; it was all I could do to manage rehearsal!
But, that’s neither here nor there, and certainly not Shakespeare.
The past couple of weeks have been pretty good. The show is [...]
Read further anon →A few weeks ago, I started rehearsing a project that had been months in the making and in just over a week it will open for audiences. As you might imagine, I am incredibly excited and incredibly exhausted. Titus Andronicus is a whirlwind of violence, emotionally devastating, and painfully beautiful. And that doesn’t begin to [...]
Read further anon →Monday, February 8
Monday morning comes and I’m not feeling well. Though we are missing some for various reasons, we run and work on 1.3
Monday night rehearsal canceled.
Tuesday, February 9
Fight night. The Fight Director stages both murder scenes. I also put shape on the rest of 3.3. Banquo’s murder looks good. He [...]
Read further anon →Editor’s Note: Mark Mannette’s blog is part of our ongoing Players & Pedants series, which provides and inside look at theatre practitioners.
Friday, January 29
At 9:00 am this morning I met with the actress playing Lady Macbeth and we worked on 1.5. We discussed character and relationship as well as pronunciation and meter. We [...]
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