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Spotlight: Tlaloc Rivas, Director
Here’s the latest installment of the director-to-director interview series… Meet Tlaloc Rivas Hometown: Tijuana, Baja California Raised in: Escondido, CA and then Watsonville, CA Current city: St. Louis, MO Occupation: Assistant Professor of Directing & Performance, University of Missouri-St. Louis Profession: Stage Director (www.tlalocrivas.com) 1) What attracted you to directing? In the early 1990s, there was [...]
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collaboration, conferences, devised work, festivals, ideas, livestreams, rabble rousing, technical work, the process, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem, video
How to Discuss Excellence?
This Saturday, we’re hosting a convening on artistic excellence at FoolsFURY. This convening arises from a belief that, as a field, we have serious difficulty having useful (and sometimes hard) conversations about the quality/excellence of each other’s work. We do this fine, at the bar, without the artists present. But how can we have more [...]
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advocacy, arts service organizations, community, conferences, conversation starter, dramaturgy, ideas, livestreams, playwrights, rabble rousing, social media, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Dramatists Guild Conference Live
I’m live-blogging the first-ever Dramatists Guild conference. Please feel free to log on and either lurk or join the conversation. If there are opportunities for questions, and you submit any, I’ll try to sneak them in. I may also be tweeting from time to time if you’d rather follow along that way, too. You can [...]
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Devised Theatre: Terrible Practicalities
Previously in this column: Bright Alchemy Theatre, a very young company devoted to the creation of devised work, decides to begin work on a narrative and thematic sequel to A Cre@tion Story for Naomi, which explored the world’s creation myths. We began this new process with a question: Why do we feel the need to [...]
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actors, collaboration, community, directors, education, rabble rousing, the process
We are Arthur
04.25.11 | Permalink | 8 CommentsEven though I am in prison three times a week, I am only just beginning to understand what it feels like to be incarcerated. What I do know is that the men with whom I work with Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) at Sing Sing Correctional Facility feel like they have been thrown away. They [...]
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collaboration, community, devised work, ideas, partnerships, playwrights, technical work, the process
Devised Theatre: Planning Your Own Funeral
04.22.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsPreviously in this column: Bright Alchemy Theatre, a very young company devoted to the creation of devised work, decides to begin work on a narrative and thematic sequel to A Cre@tion Story for Naomi, which explored the world’s creation myths. We began this new process with a question: Why do we feel the need to [...]
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collaboration, devised work, ideas, new plays, partnerships, technical work, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Devised Theatre: The End of the World Gets Personal
04.13.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsWeek 6: This is the first week where there was homework. For the last two months, we’ve been talking about Apocalypse on the grand scale. Lots of great thoughts circling vast concepts of evolution and society. I thought it might be useful to start thinking on the micro scale. Throughout the process, we have briefly [...]
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collaboration, devised work, new plays, playwrights, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Devised Theatre: Short-Circuiting Armageddon
Week 3. Is it just me, or are destruction stories a lot less interesting—or at least less fantastical—than creation stories? And there are a lot fewer variations on how things end than on how things begin. Maybe because with creation you have to work for it. We can’t imagine how things like worlds and civilizations [...]
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ideas, new plays, playwrights, spotlight, the process
His Last Play?
Ed Schmidt lied to me. At least, I think he did. To be perfectly honest, I can’t really say what was fact and what was fiction in his subversive little performance, My Last Play, which I saw last Friday. A little background, for those who may not have heard of the show: Ed Schmidt is [...]
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collaboration, community, conversation starter, development, ideas, new plays, partnerships, supply / demand, the process
Too Big to Fail
03.17.11 | Permalink | 9 CommentsSo I have to start out by saying I am not used to blogging and the rules for it confound me. Along with that I have an education where I never learned Grammar or Syntax so if there are glaring errors, I blame Dasher Green Elementary School as well as Oakland Mills High School. So [...]
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actors, collaboration, community, conversation starter, development, devised work, dramaturgy, ideas, new plays, partnerships, playwrights, producers, social media, the process
Devised Theatre: Apocalypse as sequel
03.14.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsSo, here we are. Week two and hip-deep in the initial group dramaturgy of Bright Alchemy’s devising process, which started with the question “Why do we as a species feel compelled to tell stories of our own destruction?” It’s very early, but I’m already beginning to get that familiar feeling of drowning in images and [...]
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