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Tales from Thaisa

CaitlinG — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:22:58 +0000

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 [...]

SLCC Black Box Twelfth Night Blog

Anna — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:24:30 +0000

Our cast is delighted and privileged to have on board Susan Barry (formerly Susan Maurer) in the role of Viola. A native of Chicago, Susan has been largely in more contemporary shows. Twelfth Night is her first Shakespearean production, but one would never guess that to be the case. Susan speaks the language clearly and effectively, [...]

SLCC Black Box Twelfth Night Blog

Anna — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:39:58 +0000

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 [...]

Update for Project Romulus

m. mannette — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:22:28 +0000

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 [...]

Directing Love’s Labour’s Lost at EMU: Weeks 3 and 4

Alisha Huber — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:37:58 +0000

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 [...]

Titus blog: Home stretch

Brett — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:06:10 +0000

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 [...]

Project Romulus update

m. mannette — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:24:04 +0000

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 [...]

Project Romulus Update

m. mannette — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:55:26 +0000

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 [...]

Directing Love’s Labour’s Lost at EMU: Week 2

Alisha Huber — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:23:23 +0000

Editor’s Note: Alisha Huber’s blog on her production of Love’s Labour’s Lost is part of our ongoing Players & Pedants series, which provides an inside look at Shakespeare in performance.

I’m starting to feel better about this crazy project, although we have very little time left. The actors are working really hard, and that’s helping. [...]

Reading: Othello and the Twenty-First Century Economy

Sam Wood — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:09:04 +0000

Is Othello the Shakespearean tragedy of our times? It all seems to be there: precarious employment, mobility, and the hand-to-mouth existence of a globalized world.

Of course, there are questions of race and gender, and these have opened reservoirs of academic ink, with notable examples coming from Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield, [...]