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Spring 2016 Workshop #3: “Love & Information”
What constitutes love and what constitutes information? Can we love without information? Can information amount to love? Are “love” and “information” inseparable? Composed of a series of thirty-seven unconnected vignettes, Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information poses many questions, most indirectly, through its brief glimpses into the private lives of a wide range of characters. At first, […]
Behind-the-Scenes: Researching “Hecuba”
Dramaturges Nick Graver ’16 and Francesca Parker ’17 discuss their experience preparing for Marina Carr’s Hecuba.
Moment-To-Moment: “Love & Information”
BY: KELLINA MOORE ’18 Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, the third student-directed workshop production of the semester, is currently running in the JKB. The show, directed by Kate Glowatsky ’16, is comprised of 37 vignettes. Though rehearsal for any show is a multifaceted process, a show like this one results in rehearsals being particularly scattered and […]
Q&A With “Hecuba” Makeup/Hair Designer Alyssa Hagerbrant ’16
In advance of Hecuba‘s Friday night premiere, Staff Writer Nina Slowinski ’19 spoke with Makeup/Hair Designer Alyssa Hagerbrant ’16, who began work on Hecuba immediately after finishing up makeup design for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot last month. How did you get into makeup? Freshman year, I signed up for Theater Company and I […]
A Director’s Love Letter to “The Feminist Monologues”
A Director’s Love Letter to The Feminist Monologues By: Kellina Moore ’18 During the first read-through rehearsal for The Feminist Monologues, seventeen women (myself included) squished into a misshapen circle on the floor of a classroom and stood, one by one, to read their pieces. The motions were simple, the room was simple, and many of us […]
Spring 2016 Workshop #2: “Peter/Wendy”
In Peter/Wendy, Imagination Runs Wild By: Callum Lane ’16 “All children, except one, grow up.” These words begin this wonderfully whimsical production of Jeremy Bloom’s Peter/Wendy, an adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s famous Peter Pan novels, directed here by Michael San Roman ‘17. This sentiment is sure to resonate with many. Who, as a child faced with […]
9 Questions for “Peter/Wendy” Director Michael San Roman ’17
A meta-theatrical adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Jeremy Bloom’s Peter/Wendy stands as the second student-directed workshop of the semester, as well as the first workshop for director Michael San Roman ‘17. STLN contributor Chris Naughton ’17 sat down with Michael the night before opening to discuss his process and passions for the show, which […]
A Conversation With “Peter/Wendy” Designer Chloe Brush ’18
The second student-directed workshop of the semester, Jeremy Bloom’s Peter/Wendy opens this week in JKB Studio A. Michael San Roman ’18 directs the show, which is an interpretation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. STLN Staff Writer Kallan Dana ’19 talked with Stage Manager/Lighting Designer/Makeup Designer Chloe Brush ’18 about the experience of working on the show, […]
Spring 2016 Black Box: “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”
In Judas: Morality, Mortality, and the DMV. By: Rachel Karp ’18 The sound of rain. Filing cabinets. An assortment of cardboard boxes labeled “confidential,” neatly numbered with dates from the past century. Here is a divine courtroom reminiscent of your local DMV. But despite its apparent familiarity, we have been transported to a little corner […]
Invisible Art: Designing “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”
An Inside Look at the Design Team Behind “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” BY: Kallan Dana ’19 The less you think about theater design in performance, the better the designers have done their jobs. Such is the nature of theatrical design work, which strives to enhance the characters, story, and mood of a show. […]
6 Questions For “Judas Iscariot” Actor Chris Naughton ’17
What is it like having to portray a real-life historical and biblical figure? There is literally a line in the show that says “Not much is known about Judas Iscariot.” So not much is know about him. But I’ve done a lot of research into the way Judas has been portrayed over the past couple […]
Spring 2016 Workshop #1: “Of White Walls and Words”
AN ESSAY ON ENDURANCE BY: BRANDON BOGLE ’16 “We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid.” That quote was one of the first we heard from the mouth of Tom Chandler’s embodiment of the long-dead personal essayist Michel de Montaigne, and it set the mood for the acute dissection of grief and loss that […]
7 Questions for Playwright Director Rachel Karp ’18
Rachel Karp’s new play, “Of White Walls and Words,” which follows the story of a grief-stricken young woman named Charlie and her conversations with the 16th-century essayist Michel de Montaigne, premiers as a workshop production at the JKB on February 21st. She is being interviewed here by Brandon Bogle, a senior theater major and staff writer. What are […]
Fall 2015 Mainstage: “Macbeth”
JKB Macbeth is Cinematic Shakespeare for the “Game of Thrones” Generation By: Gabe Cohn ’16 Midway through Macbeth’s “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” soliloquy, which by this point in history has been referenced by figures ranging from William Faulkner to Lin-Manuel Miranda, the doomed now-king describes a melancholy life full of “sound and fury.” Like Faulkner, director […]
Fall 2015 Workshop #4: “For Colored Girls…”
IN FOR COLORED GIRLS, A HUMAN CONNECTION BY: Gabe Cohn ’16 Midway through For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf, the “Lady in Green” (Brittany Kent ’18) begins an address to the audience by saying “Somebody almost walked off with all of my stuff.” This sentence becomes the anchor of […]
A Q&A Session with the cast of “Macbeth”
Right before the show opened, Newsletter Editor Gabe Cohn ‘16 sat down with Macbeth cast members Evy Yergan ’15 (Malca), Woodrow Proctor ’16 (Macbeth), Madeleine Emerick ’16 (Macduff/Assistant Fight Choreographer), Zachary Cohn ’16 (Lennox), and Rigel Harris ’16 (Lady Macbeth) to discuss the process of bringing Holly L. Derr’s gender-bent take on the “Scottish Play” to […]
Fall 2015 Workshop #3: “Trompe L’Oeil”
Trompe L’Oeil, the newest of experimental director Aaron Ardisson ‘16’s forays into the worlds and minds of genius artists, leaves much to the viewer’s interpretation. Like Ardisson’s previous devised piece, Dacha, which created its own world out of three Anton Chekhov plays, Trompe L’Oeil throws convention out the window in exchange for experimentation, while attempting […]
Fall 2015 Workshop #2: “No Exit”
Other People By: ZACHARY COHN ’16 It begins in flickering light overhead, white and red. They suggest, somewhere beyond the black curtains of Studio A, the distant light of fire. Then, voices, as of three people speaking at the same time: a small chaos. Finally, a settling. A crisp young woman, black-suited, leads a bewildered […]
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