(Pictured: Kelly O’Donnell and Tiffany Clementi on the bus to Little Pond for Flux’s 5th Annual Retreat)There is much to unpack from our 5th annual retreat. The 4th retreat generated so many ideas about values, mission, strategic plan and more that the sheer amount of thought made synthesizing it into a cohesive frame difficult. However,…
Flux is thrilled to announce our fourth season! Our fourth season explores the cost of a society remaining always vigilant. In our see something, say something world, what happens to empathy when we’re always on guard?What is our responsibility to those keeping watch?And what happens when our defenses are breached? Season 4: Don’t Look Away…
To begin, I apologize for the title of this blog post. I’ve been staring at a computer for so long when I go to the bathroom I click on the doorknob. To continue, it’s time for some shout-outs for deserving plays getting published! James Comtois’ play, Infectious Opportunity, is being published by the good folks…
(Photo by: Jason Paradine. Pictured: audience for Flux’s 5th Food:Soul) We’re back from the retreat with a treat for you: Adam Szymkowicz’s crimefighting comedy, Hearts Like Fists. You’ve heard about this play before, and after an uproarious read at our retreat (more on that anon), we’re sharing it with you. Hearts Like FistsWritten by Adam…
It’s that happy time! We’re off to our 5th Annual Retreat at the beautiful Little Pond Arts Retreat (picture above from 2008). The first two days will be spent finishing our work from last year on values, mission, membership structure, and internal communications; then transition into a strategic plan conversation that will look at programming,…
Readers of this blog know that after Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf is my favorite writer; close readers may even remember that we played around with staging Mrs. Dalloway at a Flux Sunday. So you can imagine my excitement when I heard Ellen McLaughlin was adapting the novel for the stage with director Rachel Dickstein of Ripe…
What is Flux Sunday? Playwrights: Rob Ackerman (Throwing Gumballs), Zack Calhoon (Hell, West, and Crooked; Stolen), Kristen Palmer* (The Stray Dog), Brian Pracht (The Misogynist), August Schulenburg (Denny and Lila) Actors: Susan Ferrara, Nancy Franklin, Ken Glickfeld, Kari Riely, Gretchen Poulos, Heather Cohn, Matt Archambault, Cotton Wright, Tiffany Clementi, Jason Paradine, David Crommett This was…
Increasingly, I am seeing the problems that face the theatre as woven into a larger context; and I am coming to believe that we can’t talk about the problems facing the field without also talking about that wider frame. I think we can’t talk about gender equity in season selection without talking about the 80…
What is Flux Sunday? Playwrights: Johnna Adams (Nurture, Gidion’s Knot, The Planned Obsolescence Of Karl Rove), August Schulenburg (Deinde) Actors: Matt Archambault, Nancy Franklin, Brian Pracht, David Crommett, Ken Glickfeld, Jane Taylor I admit, I went into this Sunday worried about the small turn out. But it ended up being a really satisfying evening, with…
I’ve been writing about Presence on the blog for some time, trying to understand the power of the connection between actor and audience evolving in real time. I’ve been looking to neuroscience for at least a metaphorical grasp about what might be driving this unique pleasure, considering such ideas of Quantum Darwinism and Mirror Neurons,…
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