skidmore theater living newsletter
A Post-Show Discussion With “Kaspar” Director Aaron Ardisson ’16
BY: GABE COHN ’16 KASPAR opened last night in the JKB black box. Written by 20th-century Austrian playwright/novelist Peter Handke, the play explores language and communication, often in intense and multi-sensory ways. It was directed here by Aaron Ardisson ’16. After the first performance, I met with Ardisson to discuss his experience in directing the […]
Moment-To-Moment: “Kaspar”
BY: KELLINA MOORE ’18 Peter Handke’s KASPAR, directed by Aaron Ardisson ’16, opens tonight in the JKB Blackbox. We sent staff writer Kellina Moore to one of the show’s final tech rehearsals to observe the cast and crew’s creative process. The following are her observations, presented in chronological order: 2:32 – I walk into the […]
“As You Like It” Takes Us Into the Woods
BY: PHILIP MERRICK ’19 I cross over the stream behind Wilson Chapel and into Northwoods, gazing around at the still-bare trees. As sun shines on my neck, I breathe in the clear spring air. We’re barely even in the woods, and already I’m struck by how free I feel. Here with nothing but fallen leaves […]
Spring 2016 Mainstage: “Hecuba”
In Hecuba: Bloodshed, Budweiser, and Raconteurs By: Gabe Cohn ’16 We tell ourselves stories in order to live. I thought of those words from the opening of Joan Didion’s “White Album” as I experienced Irish playwright Marina Carr’s new version of Eurpides’s Hecuba. Carr’s radical shift of perspective—which aligns us with the Trojans and paints them as […]
A Reflection on “Hecuba”
By: Allyson Schult ’17, Assistant Stage Manager When I first got on board with the Hecuba project, I had no idea what the process would require. I was as green as you could get—untried as an ASM, and still fairly new to the world of theatre production in general. But, Stage Manager Kendall Gross ’16 was more […]
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 […]
Second City’s Rachael Mason Teaches Improv Comedy Workshop
Living on the Pulse of Satire By: GABE COHN ’16 Rachael Mason—Head of Advanced Improvisation at Chicago’s Second City—stands in the JKB design studio with the faces of twenty-one students peering back at her, her curly brown hair, purple glasses, and a blue sweatshirt perfectly complementing her confident devil-may-care attitude. On the front of her sweatshirt […]
JKB Life: Love or Information?
This week on JKB Life, we check in with the cast + crew of Love & Information, the third workshop of the semester, to ask the how they’ve been dealing with the the play’s many different characters/vignettes. Watch the video below:
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 […]
Video Interview with “Hecuba” Director Ian Belton
Hecuba director Ian Belton talks to STLN reporter Shea Leavis ’17 about mixing ancient Greece and the modern world on the JKB Mainstage. Hecuba opens in the JKB on April 8th, with performances running through April 17th. For ticketing information, click here: http://tinyurl.com/j7l5yj5 Filmed by Gabe Cohn ’16 and Aaron Ardisson ’16 Edited by Aaron Ardisson […]
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 […]
Special Feature: Meet the Management
In this special edition of JKB Life, we meet the hard-working, fully student-run Skidmore Theater Management Team. Get a look behind the scenes at what we do on a day to day basis, the joys of working in a closet, and our personal opinions on Neverland and Ancient Greece. Watch the video below:
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Editor-in-Chief: Kiersten Simpson ’27
Founding Editor: Gabe Cohn ’16