At least, I hope so. Mostly I just wanted to make the Eliot reference ( Read more... )

We have just gotten through our first week of rehearsal!


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God, I have been busy. Rehearsals started for Mrs. Hawking, and with all the planning plus the time they take have really eaten up my minutes. I haven't written on here in days, which I hate doing. Things are going pretty well, but I'm nervous at how many people we've missed from the initial blocking of scenes. We've got so little time, I really ( Read more... )

"Rehearsals begin for Mrs. Hawking at Arisia"Tonight is the first read through for Mrs. Hawking at Arisia 2015, which marks the start of our rehearsal period. This is going to be seriously intense. We don't have long between now and our performance on January 16th, and there's about week's worth of lost time due to the winter holidays. That does ( Read more... )

New post on Mrshawking.com!

"Physical storytelling"Most of the theater I have been involved with the production of has been classical in nature. In Shakespeare, there is very little in the way of stage directions beyond entrances, exits, and the occasional “pursued by bear.” I wrote Mrs. Hawking when I was influenced by that bias. Now that I’m ( Read more... )

Well, I held my last-minute and somewhat impromptu auditions for Mrs. Hawking at Arisia 2015 tonight, and I had a decent number of people signed up to read. The bad news was that about half of those people just didn't show up, despite requesting audition slots. Which honestly irritated the heck out of me. But the good news is I got just about ( Read more... )

I'm in the scene that is niobien's final project for her directing class, and today we had a rehearsal where Carolyn did something that was fascinating to me. We ran the scene a few times, and then she suggested we go through it without the words, only the physicality, playing it more or less extreme as was needed to convey the story line. I thought this ( Read more... )

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Life is busy. Lots of stuff. And stuff I should probably post about. But here's the bullet list, until I get my head together about everything ( Read more... )

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