A record and a plug: come find out a bit more about the shows and organizations I've been gushing about by following their work on the living stream. If you're not into theatre, why not stay for the Herotodean paradox: Can you now dip your toes into the same stream twice? Wilbury Theatre Group has … Continue reading Wilbury/MAP/Tenderloin: Streaming Live to You
Wilbury Theatre Group's The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, by David Greig - Jan 16-Feb 9 (Extended) we've all been to an academic panel that feels like a little glimpse of hell. for prudencia hart, expert and lover of scottish baladary, being snowed in and stuck with a undeservedly cocky mansplainer leaves her thinking she … Continue reading “there’s only one colin syme”
(Cest la deduction des somptueux ordre plaisant spectacles et magnifiques theatres [...] (Rouen, Chez Robert le Hoy et Robert et Jean du Gord: 1551, Sig Iiir) (Were you looking for this Sea Pageant?) I work with old books. I ask how they invite us to read with them, to open ourselves into their pageantry, their … Continue reading ANOTHER SEA PAGEANT
the brilliant young minds at MAP keep on doing it. Though I'm going to be in Arlington for ASTR while the kids put on this amazing musical about climate change, I got to help out as a "songwriter" for this round. The term is generous - Daniella had the whole song in her mind, but … Continue reading MAP: “Hear Our Voices”
I've been fascinated by herakles' for years, the demi-god, the savior of civilization who murdered his own family in a fit of, it is said, madness. It wasn't the godliness or the manliness that drew me to him, but the question he persists in: how do you act if you might be immortal? What does … Continue reading herakles
Brien Lang's adaptation of Servant of Two Masters at the Wilbury Theatre Group featured a new score by local Providence musicians. I got to juggle two masters (even if, sadly, I still can't juggle anything else) while tumbling about the stage with fellow Providence clown Liz Craig. My rock ballad "Hungry for More" was featured … Continue reading truffaldino
Jed's Dream, Strange Attractor's crazy mysteries, and 100 people celebrating (with) the sea on the occasion of the total solar eclipse. I got to be a "Group Leader," leading, well, a group as we created short choreographies to add to the enormous spectale with only one audience member: the ocean. (some other people showed up … Continue reading THE SEA PAGEANT
The brilliant young minds at the Manton Avenue Project keep my breath moving. I was thrilled to get to be a part of their collaborative musical this year. I'm pretty sure Christopher Olney didn't sing about his chocolate factory, or get everyone in the park to clean up their trash for the good of the … Continue reading Olneyville, the Operetta!
I tried to do a piece about ancient rhetoric in the modern world. It was about masculinity and baseball and good old fashioned murder. It was called frame{d}, and it was set to be a rip-roarin' whodunnit, only the trick was that the murder never happened. It was a piece about probability and ancient rhetoric … Continue reading s{cr}eens: observing ‘probable’ violence
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