ETUDES AND ATTITUDES Our post trilogy return to Flux Sunday was marked by stabs at virtuosity, some made, some missed. The first attempt was my own hope of staging the EIGHT scenes on our list all in three hours, an attempt that fell utterly short. But many others succeeded in honoring the patron saint of…
This was the last Flux Sunday before the trilogy began, and again, it was a full three hours, with scenes from Rob Ackerman’s Volley Girls, Johnna Adam’s Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Damn Pernicious Go Betweens, Jeremy Basescu’s The Will, Mary Fengar Gail’s Beggar At The Feast, and my own 60’s play. Over two months later, I…
Yes, I’ve been a wee bit derelict in posting about our Flux Sunday activities – trilogies will do that to you. And I know that somewhere in the first half of the year, a Flux Sunday went unreported on this blog, a victim to this swiftly tilting 2008. Sometimes this blog feels like the Buendia…
FRAMESThis last Flux Sunday was the most powerful work we’ve done since our return from our Annual Retreat. We continued through Ten Black Boxes, Volleygirls, and We Are Burning; and also saw the 1st scene of Jeremy Basescu’s brand new play, The Will. The writing and the performances were all at an exciting level, as…
What is The Imagination Compact? And how can I learn more about Flux’s Misdummer? Jeremy Basescu Playwright, The Mechanicals, May 19th Flux History: Plays developed at Flux Sunday include A Wonderful Wife and Calling CQ 1. What is your favorite Shakespeare play? *King Lear.* It creates such a complete, compelling world that I can’t helpbut…
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…
On our Flux Sunday March 16th we completed working through Jeremy Basescu’s A Wonderful Wife. This was especially exciting because Jeremy (pictured to the left) was writing the play as we went along – one of the original goals of Flux Sunday was to serve as both spur and immediate gratification to plays in progress….
ALONE AND TOGETHEROne of our most exciting and well-executed Flux’s that I can remember, our work together on the 16th seemed to coalesce around themes of aloneness and togetherness. Those themes were especially lovely and unsettling in Johnna Adams’ play Oneida, Servants of Motion, about the Perfectionist communist christian utopian community that thrived for 33…
I am so late posting about Flux’s developmental adventures! I would be ashamed if I had time to be ashamed! Instead, I will do penance by making every sentence in this post end with an exclamation point! Or no, that would make all suffer. No one likes an unnecessarily exclamation. (I think!?!?) Ah, reader, but…
FLEX IS FLUXIBLEEr…strike that, reverse it.But as our mission statement plainly states, we do value the multi-faceted theatre artist. And that flexibility was plainly on display on this particular Sunday (as it is here to the left as Cotton Wright stretches skyward as Thalia in Rue). Short on our regular dose of directors, Flux membership…
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