Photos and posts by Corinna Schulenburg. From Tuesday, April 19 through Sunday, April 24, a small group of Fluxers gathered at Little Pond Arts Retreat in Nazareth, PA for a Mini-Retreat. Why mini? Partly because everyone’s schedules are so busy, it was counterintuitively easier to meet several times rather than once; partly because we didn’t…
Post by August Schulenburg. Coming to the Little Pond Arts Retreat in Nazareth, PA for our 13th Annual Flux Retreat, we were greeted first with a flood of ghosts before the spirits sent a flood of water to wash them away. When you come to a place every year for 13 tears, and only for…
(Photo and post by August Schulenburg.) Our final full day of activity at the Retreat ended on a strong note with plays from Chisa Hutchinson and Kristen Palmer, followed by a fire-pit at the clearing on the hill. With fewer pages to wrangle on this final day, we were able to hear all of Chisa…
(Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: cast and audience of Marian Smoldering.) Our sixth day saw our highest attendance of the Retreat–24 beautiful people gathered together to make theatre in the barn and through the woods! In the morning, we read Safe Haven by Nandita Shenoy, and then staged scenes from her as yet untitled FluxForward play. We also…
(Photo and post by August Schulenburg.) Our second full day of play development programming featured the second and third acts of Jason Tseng’s Outbreak, Kevin R. Free’s FluxForward play Anatomical Lewis, Nandita Sheony’s Rescued by a Coquette and my play KD and The Band. We managed this abundance of plays by reading the Jason’s pages…
(Post and photo by August Schulenburg.) I shared this photo first because it best expresses my perspective on much of the Flux Retreat proceedings…balancing parenthood and theatre is fun (and really hard) ((but worth it)). But enough about my inquisitive daughter, because day four was our first full day of play development programming! After some…
(Photo by Alisha Spielmann. Post by August Schulenburg.) Day Three of the Flux Retreat ended in celebratory fashion with a riotously funny reading of Becky Byers new web series, Whispers of Light. A comic romp with an undercurrent of loss set in the worlds (plural intended) of Dungeons and Dragons, Whispers of Light began the second phase of…
(Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Becky Byers, Will Lowry. Post by August Schulenburg.) Before we can say anything about Day Two of the Retreat, we have to dance the happy dance in celebration of Creative Partner Becky Byers’ IT Award Nomination for Belle in Once Upon A Bride There Was A Forest. We share this iconic…
(Photo and post by August Schulenburg.) Well, the first day of the 2015 Flux Retreat did not lack for substantive, inspiring and exhausting debate. I’m proud of how we got to the root of things and had some hard but necessary conversations, and though the day was not without it’s mistakes, we ended on a…
(Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum, drawing by Will Lowry, post by August Schulenburg.) After a great first Pre-Retreat Meeting, we connected again to further discuss key issues with the full Creative Partnership (a few folks aren’t able to be there) and to prepare logistically for the Retreat. I was on Google Hangout while watching Mercena, which…
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