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King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« on: Aug 05, 2012, 04:33 pm »
So, I am on the road - it seems every fall I leave town . . . I just arrived in Providence, Rhode Island - start work tomorrow for a co-production of KING LEAR - opening here in Rhode Island, and then traveling to Dallas in January and February of next year.  It's interesting, as both companies have residence companies pitching in 6 actors (and then four local student non-AEA are filling out the cast).

Here's to new adventures . . .

(King Lear is another one off my Shakespeare list . . . this is the complete Canon with the ones I have done crossed off . .  . http://www.stagemanager.net/Canon.html - a couple of big ones left.)



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Re: King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« Reply #1 on: Aug 05, 2012, 05:06 pm »
I love your Shakespeare list- a very impressive collection! Best of luck on the new production.

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Re: King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« Reply #2 on: Aug 05, 2012, 05:25 pm »
Would you say you've chased Shakespeare, Shakespeare has chased you, or a combination of both? (Serious question btw...and how have you never managed Much Ado? One of my favs!)
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Re: King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« Reply #3 on: Aug 05, 2012, 06:58 pm »
There's some great theatre in RI, enjoy your stay and break legs!

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Re: King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« Reply #4 on: Aug 05, 2012, 07:00 pm »
You get to get out of NYC for the remainder of the terrible summer weather (today was just terrible, like breathing through a damp towel) and then again for the worst of the winter weather.  I'm a tad jealous on that alone.


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Re: King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« Reply #5 on: Aug 05, 2012, 07:06 pm »
Enjoy Dallas! Not sure if you're a BBQ fan, but try to get to Randy's BBQ. It's delicious.
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. -Ionesco

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Re: King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« Reply #6 on: Aug 05, 2012, 08:12 pm »
Welcome to Providence! 

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Re: King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« Reply #7 on: Aug 05, 2012, 10:25 pm »
I'm completely blanking on the name of the place, but I went somewhere this spring in Dallas that had absolutely amazing tacos, and red velvet cake for dessert.

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Re: King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« Reply #8 on: Aug 06, 2012, 08:26 am »
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Would you say you've chased Shakespeare, Shakespeare has chased you, or a combination of both? (Serious question btw...and how have you never managed Much Ado? One of my favs!)

Before my time at Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington DC, outside of School, I had only ever done one Shakespeare, a Hamlet.  Doing six years at some place called the Shakespeare Theater Company will knock some titles off the list VERY quickly.  Since then, I have been "typecast" as a Shakespeare Stage Manager - in the two years since I have left STC in DC - and moved to NYC, I still have done six Shakespeares (Cymbeline, Measure, All's Well, Titus, AYLI, and now Lear).

You know as a stage manager, you can get type cast - you are a "regional theater SM", you are an "Off-Broadway SM", you "are a musical SM" - it's hard to fight these stereotypes, and I sort have given up - and now are just getting really good at spinning - I can do long plays, with larges casts, and multiple scene changes - with a strong detail to text and history of the piece, with up to 18 points of automation, with casts members who often have multiple tracks.

Funny story, I am not really fond of Shakespeare - I don't usually rush out and see other people's Shakespeare.  It's not my entertainment of choice.  What I am fond of is working on good text, with good actors and fantastic designers and directors. That's where working on Shakespeare comes in handy - they often tend to be "designy" - which I professionally "get off on".  So, I think the Bard chases me, I play hard to get, but at the end of the day - I give in. 

Oh, I have no idea why I haven't done MUCH ADO . . . A friend of mine has done 11 productions of Lear, this is my first as PSM (I subbed on deck on the Bob Falls Production a few years back).  I have been involved in 5 productions of Titus, my friends has done zero. 

King John will be the hard one - although the Henry's get tricky as well - maybe I can find them.  It will get down to me starting to track who is doing those shows and offer to do them at a cut rate . . .

(And Thanks to Kay for pointing out some errors with my code - the new web page was my first HTML working at code level project I did - I mean I started with a template, but  my husband made me go do all the edits at code level.  I had four weeks off, I had to have a little project.)
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Re: King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« Reply #9 on: Aug 06, 2012, 08:38 am »
Thanks for the response, Matthew. I was always curious, especially since I noticed you were still doing Shakes after you left Shakespeare Theater Co...thought it was either a torrid love affair or an endless series of booty calls! And you're right about the typecasting...

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Re: King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« Reply #10 on: Aug 06, 2012, 09:20 am »
Booty calls - yes, that's my career.

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Re: King Lear - Trinity Rep / Dallas Theater Center
« Reply #11 on: Aug 06, 2012, 03:30 pm »
Looks much better, Matthew! I think while everyone else is talking about your Lear I may be more excited that you're learning to scratch code!

 

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