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https://www.sugardoodle.net/l68ddaz599r They actually let us off early today – I think it has something to do with everyone wanting to watch the Tony’s (except me) although I did see several nominees. I actually met and had cake with and talked to Bob Chambers who is up for three Tony’s. The cake was because it was his birthday. Of course the play The Coast of Utopia was done at Lincoln Center. I just saw that Bob won two Tony’s tonight.

https://hoodcountytoday.com/nkp6oza Today we had a clambake. But before that I need to tell you some more about New York.

http://foundationmag.ca/analytics-achieving-results-are-we-making-progress Anywhere there is construction, which is everywhere, there is a plywood wall to keep the gawkers out. And on every plywood wall, every square inch is covered with posters. For the most part these are big posters – maybe four feet high and 30 inches wide. They are an art form in itself. Here are some that I walked by on my way to Lincoln Center today:

follow link Rebok is there in large numbers. Here are a few samples:

go to site Run to the beat of your own drummer. Run easy. Rebok.

https://www.towerstreetinsurance.com/blog/kjql0p0uh A ten minute mile is just as far as a six minute mile. Run easy. Rebok.

https://openrepeater.com/61s8x7q Stop and smell the garbage. Run Easy. Rebok.

Order Cheap Tramadol Cod One had a picture of a cow with “Inject care not hormones.”

Can I Get Tramadol Online From Blue Cross: In 1995 250 New Yorkers were bitten by rats and 1401 were bitten by humans.

here I don’t know where this one came from: Every day 340,000 New Yorkers walk to work burning 2,380,000 pounds of fat a year.

https://www.receitas4dummies.com/wc1qgif3l From Fresh Direct: Our food is fresh. Our customers are spoiled.

http://documentingmydinner.com/category/cuisines/page/39/ Here is a true fact from yesterday: Someone asked me if I was a dancer. I told them no. They thought I had a dancers body. A great compliment I think.

https://londonplaywrightsblog.com/q3zym4l Now to the clambake. Not a clam in sight. Not a bake in sight. For whatever reason a clambake is an opportunity for directors and designers to get together and talk and look at the designers work. I’ve already told you how impressed I am with their work. Today just reinforced it. These guys are really good and really add a lot to the production.

https://richmonddoha.com/c7tnoyuh We had a long discussion period at the end of the clambake to talk as a group. On designer told us his best job as a designer: The director of A View From The Bridge, Michael Mayer, who was directing the Broadway premier came to the first production meeting and said “This play sucks. What can we do about it?” Every one pitched in.

https://underbellyofsunshine.com/?p=3dllmsd9 Another thing I learned was from the designers was “ The directors tells the story with the actors the designers tell the same story with the set, the lights the costumes and so on.” You can bet next time I do a play, I’ll involve the designers much more in the vision of the play.

click After a nap, I went over to Amsterdam Street and found a quiet bar and worked on a new play. This one is getting pretty long for me. We’ll see how it turns out. One of the things I love about traveling is the time to write. I have trouble finding time to do it on Orcas. So far I’m pretty impressed with this play.

follow The only down side to today was an e-mail I got indirectly from Orcas Center. Why do I always have to fight them? Some times I just don’t feel up to it but I have to defend our program or they’ll just take us apart piece by piece.

http://booksbycarolinemiller.com/musings/writing-publishing-agents/the-focus-hasnt-changed/ Yuck. What a crappy end to a nice day.

https://underbellyofsunshine.com/?p=wux24hp What I’ve learned as of Saturday, June 9th

https://www.towerstreetinsurance.com/blog/kgxqlrs In order of priority to me.

source 1. These professional designers have a lot to offer. But whoever we use as designers, we need them in the rehearsal room.

http://booksbycarolinemiller.com/tag/how-conservatives-benefitted-from-citizens-united/ 2. Writing is a solo sport. Directing is a team sport. Our personalities causes us to gravitate to one direction or the other. I am not at all certain that playwrights who come from the writing side of the business (as against actors or directors) have the skill sets necessary successfully direct a play even if they wrote it.

http://foundationmag.ca/category/e-commerce 3. LCT’s hypothesis for their playwright as director theory would have been better served if the five plays had been more finished products so the rehearsal time could have been used to test the hypothesis rather than working on the basic structure and dialog of the play. I was pretty thoroughly criticized for this opinion although two directors approached me after the session to agree with me. The criticism’s were based on a statement from LCT not to worry about a product of any kind. That the emphasis was to be on form and process. I think that all of the playwrights took advantage of the opportunity to develop and refine the dialog and structure of their plays to the detriment of what I viewed as the overall goal of LCT.

Tramadol Legal To Order Online 4. So far, I believe that the playwright as director model is flawed and in most cases will not work. Looking at the Tam Lin lawsuit (which, unfortunately, did not resolve the right of Directors to copyright their blocking and direction of the play) and other emerging changes in the American Theater (most notably the increasing use of multimedia presentations as part of the play) is moving the theater towards a modified Disney model where the producing organization will own (or at least license) the product (which includes the play itself) to other theaters. (That is probably the longest sentence I have ever written.) The licensing theater may buy the script outright from the playwright or enter into some joint licensing agreement.

https://www.receitas4dummies.com/02dzw7oz1ve Saturday 2 – June 9th – Day Six

source link A different day today.

https://openrepeater.com/3cxe6sau0 We didn’t need to arrive until 11 am today so I picked up my laundry. Good to be back in shirts, socks and skivvies.

https://www.wearegradient.net/grleo9fo First, we had the fifth of the five plays that they have been rehearsing. It was a 65 minute play titled “Minor Gods”. A very interesting premise: A man has developed a test that will tell if a fetus will turn into a gay or lesbian. The man is seeking government funding to find a “cure” for those for those fetus’ who may turn gay.

source url What could have been a very heavy play was lightened considerably but some very well done humor. Nevertheless the play at times seemed disconnected and talky. There were some very long passages that need to be shortened.

here Of particular interest is that the cast spent 2 ½ weeks at the table and only three days on their feet. Also of interest, the play takes place in a motel room and on the three days they were on their feet, the set designer changed the size of the hotel room. The actors liked the challenge.

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http://documentingmydinner.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1746215113.4245800971984863281250 This afternoon, we split up into groups of 25 with some directors, some actors, some playwrights and some designers. They gave us a page with a lot of questions on it. Most related to how things worked with the playwright in the room. I offered my thoughts on how the process went was roundly criticized. (What’s new?) I still think I am right. What I heard over and over was that the process produced a far better play than before the rehearsals. Duh! Hire professional directors, professional actors and professional designers and spend three weeks working on the script and it should get better.

Tramadol Online Pay With Mastercard The question in my mind is whether that was an efficient use of resources and my answer is no. Remember that the initial question proposed by Lincoln Center was how to bring a new play to the stage in the four week rehearsal period allowed. If they took 2 ½ weeks to get up from the table we are looking at a seven or eight week rehearsal period.

https://www.sugardoodle.net/9ctfplpe The schedule for today listed “Reflections on what we’ve learned so far” as the topic. So I spent a couple of hours writing out my thoughts. I’ll post them after this. Remember you read up .

https://stoneparkusa.com/no_category/i6avq4xbyel After this talk back period we had cookies and soda and said good bye to the actors and playwrights. I will miss Roy Thinnes and several of the playwrights. Tomorrow the designers go home after we spend a couple of hours looking at their work. Then we’re down to 58 Directors for the next two weeks.

Ordering Tramadol Overnight After dinner all the Directors got together and introduced ourselves although we already know many of them. Got out early tonight: 9 pm.

https://hoodcountytoday.com/7raj4vmu6 That’s all for today.

Now I have to type my comments.

Friday 2 – June 8th

All in all a good day today.

Our first session was cancelled since the speaker couldn’t make it.

We didn’t need to get there until 2 pm.

I took another load to the wash and fold. I put the claim check in my wallet so I won’t lose it. I’ll pick it up tomorrow – supposed to have showers tomorrow – there must be some tie between my picking up my laundry and rain. Have to think about that one. I wonder if there is a play in there somewhere?

I talked to Rob O’Neill today and we’re going out to dinner on Monday. He said to say ‘Hi” to everyone on Orcas. I told him that everyone on Orcas says hi to him (and Lisa Benner).

Now to the rest of the day.

Last things first. The evening session (7 to 20 pm) was very different. We were broken up into small (7 person) groups. Each group was headed by a playwright who gave their group ten pages of a script he was working on. The play he is working on is a one man opera. Really! It is based on the true story of a Chinese man who was trapped in an elevator in NYC for three days. We listened to a couple of songs from it and they weren’t too bad. Not high opera – just a musical where every line is sung. By definition that makes it an opera.

We read parts of it aloud then we spent an hour talking about it and our ideas on it. Here we have a guy trapped in an elevator – not a whole lot of room for blocking. Wrong!!! One of the guys in our group is a costume designer but also does set design. He came in with a possible design for the set and it was REALLY great. It gave the directors a lot to work with and we just brainstormed. It was really good. The playwright is coming to Seattle next week to have a reading (singing) of his play at The Theater Off Jackson.

That reminds me of something I’ve been meaning to mention: My biggest revelation so far is the important part Designers play in the play presentation process. Each type of designer brings something different to the process – far more than what we are used to on Orcas. Of course these guys get paid big bucks. This guy tonight was talking about a show he is currently costuming. He analyzes each character and knows more about the character than the playwright or director. He even put a medallion in the pocket of a costume because he decided that the characters mother had given it to him. Not mentioned in the script anywhere.

After we finished with the opera, we talked about working with playwrights in general. It was a really good discussion and one of the best I have been involved in since I got here. We had actors, the designer, the playwright and four directors all participating. It was an amazing discussion.

Before this session, we had the fourth of five plays that they have been rehearsing. This one was called “Green Zone” after the name of the American compound in Baghdad. It was a comedy/drama and poked a lot of fun on the American Army and the civilian support people but also had a more serious overtone. A fourth play very different that the others.

It was also the first play that effectively used the new collaboration model with great success. The actors, designer, director and playwright all felt that the more interactive model provided a much better product. It was funny and well done.

The first session today was cancelled because the expected speaker could not be there.

We start an hour late tomorrow so I have time to get my laundry.

Good night. It’s 11:20.

Thursday, June 7th – Day Four – Part Two

One final (maybe) thought on “Only Children”:

Of the three plays I’ve seen (including the one I saw Thursday but have not shared yet), Only Children was by far the most fully realized. Blocking, singing, relationships, etc were all pretty well done. To have accomplished all of this in three weeks is truly a Herculean accomplishment.

Tidbit: Discussion has the same root word as percussion – not a soft and gentle word. Dialog is.

Tidbit: Process and product are tied together. If you are not satisfied with the product, look at the process to see what isn’t working right.

So far I’ve seen three plays and talked to the playwright of a fourth (out of five). In every case (with the possible exception of The Maestro’s Garden where the playwright had to leave for a family emergency) the playwright has made a conscious decision to turn direction of the play over to the director rather than do it themselves. One playwright told me that while he was fumbling around trying to direct he couldn’t see the big picture: How the play was working. He wanted to be in his role of playwright so he could watch the play, see where the problems were and work on rewrites to solve them.

After all my words last night about directing styles, the director of today’s play “This Bloody Mess” said that she got the actors up the first day to look at some things in the play that may have needed work. Two actors complained about that: having to put the work up for people to see (even if it was just the people from that play) without doing all the table work they were used to which helps them find the character.

This Bloody Mess is an interesting type of play: 5 Acts, probably 50 scenes in 2 1/4 hours. That makes the average scene just a couple of minutes long. Added to that was jumping back and forth in time. All in all the play suffered from the short scenes. We know we lose the audience when there is a scene change and it takes several minutes to get them back into the play when the next scene starts. What happens when the next scene is not long enough to get them back?

My take on this play is that it would make a good screen play.

The story is about a young woman who leaves her home and child to go to an unnamed country to do good work. She goes for a short period of time but stays several years. We watch her but also the effect on her family back home. Like most plays, this one would be considerably better if it were shortened (except for my plays of course).

One closing comment: The ending of the play almost made me cry and I’m not one who cries easily.

Our evening session was made up of the same group we worked with Wednesday night. The goal is to have everyone in our small group do something other than what they normally do. In our case, we were directed by a playwright, Roy Thinnes was the playwright and I was an actor and so on. Our task was to put the play up on it’s feet then answer two questions about the play: What is the “action” of the play and what is the play about. First no one knew what was meant by “action” and we never did figure out what the play was about. Well we couldn’t agree on what the play was about. Each of us had a different idea. Our playwright playing director was not in charge of what happened so we just sat at the table for two nights talking (arguing) about the play. For people who want to try to figure it out, the play is “Woman at at Threshold, Beckoning” by John Guare.

One final comment before I get on with today:

Play writing is a solo sport. Directing is a team sport. Since I’m not a “real” playwright, I can’t talk about playwrights in general. But a successful director needs to be a leader. Don’t tell LCT I said this but he needs to be a benevolent dictator. Someone has to be in charge. It had better be the director if you are to get anything done.

The personalities of the few playwrights I’ve met here do not go to being the leader. If an aspiring director does not have strong leadership qualities, he is not going to be successful. If a playwright does not have strong leadership qualities, he is not going to be a successful director either. I’ll keep watching but that is my first thought on having playwrights direct.

Time to get to work.