Monthly Archives: May 2016

Open Invitation to Company I

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UnknownI would certainly like to dedicate this one post to the wonderful young artists that I have come to know in Company I. This was a new class and a new adventure for me – and certainly a labor of love. We had some mighty fine days in Company and some I am still processing. How wonderful, at my age, to still keep exploring this wonderful thing called teaching theatre.

I would love to invite all who were part of Company I to add their thoughts below as feedback. It will be a great treat for me, in the future, to refer back to the forefathers of this experiment, Company I

It’s Getting Me Down

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imagesYou would think that teachers bitch about how teaching is underpaid, overworked and under-appreciated. That’s what you hear in the press all the time. But I disagree. The thing that I find that is dragging this business to a halt is the missing ‘they people.” Read more

Rising from the Dead

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imagesPoisoning has abated. Death did not ensue – although somewhat indicated, and I am back to school and theatre. I am struck today by the number of students that sought me out today asking help in getting their junior butts together for the senior adventure that awaits them next year. They NOW sense the ticking clock! Read more

Poisoned

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UnknownTuesday morning and I am not feeling so good. Like a good trouper I am off to school to see two directing scenes that testing-mania would just not let me see – – and then, and then, and then, by the grace of god, I worked my way home to suffer and essentially sleep though a day of very bad food poisoning.

Beware the Truffle Mac and Cheese from Whole Foods. Beware. Beware. No theatre to report on today. Just ginger ale and sleeeeeeeeeeep.