Our Town
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Ephemera
The show is over. We had our last performance yesterday. It was a great day – the Governor of Massachusetts was in the audience! – and a great run. It was a marvelous five weeks. But it's over now. By… Continue reading
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More Thoughts on Taoism and Acting
We have settled into the stretch run of Our Town: seven performances over the next five days. Some nice photos over at our Facebook page. The work has thus shifted from developing characters and relationships to consistently reproducing those characters… Continue reading
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Running “Our Town”
Blog silence for the past week has been caused by the crazy culmination of rehearsals and the first performances of Our Town. It has been, to say the least, exhilarating and highly instructive. I've been a bit coy up to… Continue reading
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The De (Te) – 德 – of Acting
I really thought summer would afford more time to blog. But that is not happening. The combination of a couple of writing projects, the play and various and sundry demands, has taken me away from this site. But this morning… Continue reading
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The Tao of Our Town
On our first day of rehearsals our director talked for a bit about the themes of Our Town. He asked: “Why Our Town?” That is, why should a well-established professional theater company produce a play that just about every… Continue reading
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In the company of actors
This summer I am acting. I have a small part in a regional theater production. Rehearsals began yesterday and I want to write a bit about the experience, but I am going to do so in a circumspect manner, to… Continue reading
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