On Monday of this week, Angel Eaters Trilogy playwright Johnna Adams, and Angel Eaters actor Marnie Schulenburg and I visited the studio of nytheatre.com and indietheater.org impresarios Martin and Rochelle Denton to record a podcast. This podcast was hosted by Trav SD, and also features interviews and performance excerpts from “The Complete Performer,” “Time Step,”…
We are deep into production meetings now, and rapidly approaching the beginning of rehearsals, for our upcoming production of Johnna Adam’s trilogy, Angel Eaters. Our team of designers and directors are now trying to figure out how to incarnate three wildly different plays (in repertory!) into one space. For those of you who want to…
(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…
SUBMARINE TEXT One of the joys of writing on a regular basis for a regular group of actors is when you write for a specific voice and that voice nails the part exactly. That little thrill was mine when Rebecca McHugh read a part named, well, Becca, in my short play contribution to this Sunday’s…
ON BIRDS AND BUNNIESOur Flux workshop on Sunday the 23rd, aka ‘Easter’, was a blissfully smaller turnout of 14 people – about 12 less than our recent average – and I welcomed the intimate crowd. ONEIDA, OR ISAIAH GOES SLEDDINGWe continued through Johnna Adams’ wonderful play about the utopian community in mid-1800’s New York, Oneida,…
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…
Trilogy playwright Johnna Adams and I went to the opening of Ariel Dorfman’s Widows at Reverie Productions, and it was a wonderful opportunity to see the kind of ambitious, globally-engaged work an Indie theatre is capable of reaching for and accomplishing. HUZZAH to a company willing to premiere a play with a cast this big,…
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