Flux Sunday: 9/22/13
Post by August Schulenburg. Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum Theatrical Photography. The image is of the Retreat postcards where we wrote down things we wanted to remember from our first story circle. These fragments became the basis of all our work, including the Tarot card work featuring at this Flux Sunday.)
We’re back after a bit of a break, but not quite so long a break as FluxBlog would have you believe. I’m WAY behind on FluxBlog updates, y ojalá, I will complete all the 2013 updates we owe before the new year turns old. But knowing great journeys begin with a single step, I’ll focus on our good times yesterday.
Playwrights: Zack Calhoon (Vicious); Shaun Bennett Fauntleroy (Untitled); Aja Houston (Superwomen and Beauty Queens); August Schulenburg (Lightning Walks)
Directors: Heather Cohn, Marielle Duke, Christine Zagrobelny
Actors: Kelly O’Donnell, Nicole Aiken, Anthony Wills Jr, Julian Stetkevych, Daryl Lathon, Marianne Miller, Rachael Hip-Flores, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Melissa Herion, Anna Rahn, Ken Glickfeld and Kathleen Wise.
BARP: Gesture work based on the Tarot cards created at the Retreat. The actors and directors crafted a five gesture sequence based on a single card, moving through Past, Present, Future, Essence and Negation. These gesture narratives will be further developed at next Flux Sunday.
Highlights included:
-In her debut as a playwright, Shaun brought some richly detailed and intriguing characters to the table, and ended on a moment that actually made me gasp. More pages, please!
-As everyone in the room shared the read-through of Zack’s new pages, a wonderful contagious momentum developed, as well as a few laughs of recognition inspired by this plays about two actors falling in (and out?) of love…
-Anthony dropped the mic on the opening “I Am a Man” speech for my play Lightning Walks.
-Shaun and Nicole’s super-seriousness in Aja’s Superwomen and Beauty Queens made the super-hero circle scene full of grounded LOLs.
-Anna, Daryl and Christine’s choice to make the crows fly away from the murder in the corn through the sounds of their hands passing over each other was such a cool BARP moment…but when they became the corn in the wind at the end, I realized again the power of this gesture work to communicate powerful emotion in such condensed form.
If you were there, what do you want to remember going forward? Leave your tarot readings in the comments below…
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