In order to move forward this conversation regarding quality, we are putting some of those principles into practice with a new blog series, Exploding Moments. We’ll be exploring how quality productions work through the prism of individual moments. By asking the artists involved how they created a particularly successful moment, and examining how it works…
What is Flux Sunday? So much to catch up on! Have Another last night (it went well), a shout out for Infectious Opportunity (go see the extension), an update on the quality discussion and more NET unpacking. But for now, a quick update on our last Flux Sunday! BACK ON OUR FEET, BUT WOOZYThanks to…
A great interview regarding audience empathy, protagonist morality, and James Comtois‘ upcoming production of Infectious Opportunity, featuring frequent Flux Sunday collaborator David Ian Lee and sound design by Patrick Shearer at the Brick’s Antidepressant Festival. Listen to it, and then get your tickets here!
What is Poetic Larceny? And how can I learn more about Flux’s upcoming production of Pretty Theft? DAVID IAN LEE Playwright, May 4th Previous Flux stuff: David appeared as an actor in our Imagination Compact, and as a playwright has workshopped Sleeper, Dog Show, and Long Sought, More Perfect at Flux Sundays. We asked the…
ALL CYLINDERS CLICKING Every once in a while, Flux Sundays will have a lightening strike day. All the scripts are tight, the actors connect with the roles, and each scene passes some essential undroppable thing to the next. It doesn’t happen often, but boy did it happen on January 11th, and with all of us…
(The Khyber Pass, between Afghanistan and Pakistan)Small Pond Entertainment PresentsSLEEPERby David Ian Leedirected by Nat Cassidy“A war is coming, but not the one we expect.”Featuring: Micah Chartrand, David Dartley*, Emily Hagburg, Jason Griffith*, David Ian Lee*, L. Jay Meyer*, Karen Sternberg*, Craig Lee Thomas* & Kristen Vaughan*Limited Engagement at the Manhattan Theatre SourceJuly 20 –…
(Photo: Allison Bolah. Pictured: August Schulenburg, Daren Taylor, David Ian Lee, David Douglas Smith, Heather Cohn) SO MANY CONS, SO FEW SUNDAYSOur second Flux Sunday back from Midsummer had the heart of a con man. Cons of the dishonest kind were being played in me tentatively titled new play, Denny and Lila, and of the…
(Photo: Allison Bolah. Pictured: Daren Taylor, David Douglass Smith, David Ian Lee, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Amy Fitts) THE HAPPY RETURN OF FLUX SUNDAYS!Well, after a long break courtesy of our production of Midsummer, Flux returned to our weekly workshop process, Flux Sundays. And it was good to be back! For those of us who worked on…
What is The Imagination Compact?And how can I learn more about Flux’s Midsummer? David Ian Lee Actor, The Lovers, May 12th Flux History: Flux Sunday regular as actor, director and playwright; plays developed include Sleeper and Dog Show 1. What is your favorite Shakespeare play?Tough call. Possibly Two Gentlemen of Verona, though Hamlet will laways…
ALL THE LITTLE BREAK THROUGHSWhile much of the dialogue in the theatrosphere justly involves revolutionary change, it is often little incremental break throughs that give me the most pleasure. Flux Sunday regularly reveals such break throughs – the right actor, the right director, the right role – and some new unconsidered possibility opens up. The…
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