Thursday, June 27, 2013
As part of the Playworks Program here at the International Thespian festival, students have the opportunity to audition and rehearse one of the plays being workshopped. The audition day was …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, June 22, 2013
Craig forwarded me the link that inspired today’s exercise with a “this sounds like a Lindsay Price blog post.” And it does indeed. What you can see over here are pictures…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, June 20, 2013
Writing by its nature is a solitary activity. Me and a notebook. Me thinking. Me solving problems. Having said that, theatre by its nature is a community activity. It takes a community to …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, June 18, 2013
“I guess it came down to not letting other people decide what was right for me. Everyone’s needs are unique. My happy is different from your happy.” – Lisa Fischer Sometimes we g…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, June 15, 2013
This exercise is the result of a complete accident in a recent workshop. It simply had to do with numbers. When I go into a class to workshop a play, I often break down a script into section…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, June 13, 2013
“A quick change is four seconds. A fast change is, like, 15 seconds” When watching the Tony’s this week, I was pretty cooled out to see the way Cinderella and the Fairy God…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Monster Problems is a brand new play for Theatrefolk – so new it’s not even in the catalogue yet! As we put the finishing touches in place, here are some pictures from the pr…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, June 8, 2013
I received the trailer below for a production of Tuna Fish Eulogy and I think it’s great. It’s basically a commercial for the show, but also gives a clear indication of the style…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, June 6, 2013
Over at Slate, Mason Curry has been collecting the daily routines of writers, artists and other creative people. How do they do it? How do they work every day? Balzac drank a lot of coffee.…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
Sometimes I see a picture, hear a sentence, something flashes in front of my eyes and a dramatic conversation instantly forms. It’s a moment that would come alive on the stage. This is…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMSaturday, June 1, 2013
I love words and how we use them. I love complex words with interesting means. (e.g. agelast: someone who never laughs. That is an awesome word and definition.) I love it when there are mul…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, May 30, 2013
The moment this became clear to me in practice, as it related very specifically to something I was writing—The book is not the movie—the separation became easy, as clean as a yolk from …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
I believe that environment plays a big part in productivity. The room in which I do most of my writing has windows on two sides. I have two options for sitting, I can spread out on a couch w…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMFriday, May 24, 2013
A dark ride is an indoor amusement ride where riders in guided vehicles travel through specially lit scenes that typically contain animation, sound, music, and special effects. – …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, May 23, 2013
These past two months I have seen a one act play go from idea to production. Yes, that’s right two months. We started with two brainstorming sessions, I then went into the class (the p…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 07:38AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Here is an interesting question to ponder. Can Improv create change? I’m not talking small step interpersonal change, which is something I fully stand behind: Improv can create a level…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, May 18, 2013
This is a great classroom exercise to not only have fun with Shakespeare but to also see how well students can re-frame which ever Shakespeare play they are studying. This picture is a poste…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, May 16, 2013
Awhile a go I adjudicated a festival that involved a lot of student writers and directors. It was awesome to see their work and to talk to them about how they wanted to present their work. �…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
If you could get into your DeLorean and time-travel to the day you started writing this, would you do anything differently? I think I would have written it faster. I think I would have not…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
Sometimes the hardest part in getting started is coming up with that first line. Turning a blank page into writing. It’s always going to be easier to turn away from a blank page than t…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMFriday, May 10, 2013
I don’t hate musicals. I grew up on them, I was listening to You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown when I was too young to know what it was about. I have an original album cover for …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMThursday, May 9, 2013
It’s the part of being a professional actor that only resonates once you’ve done it. Eight shows a week. Twice on Saturday. On paper it seems so manageable. If you’re in …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, May 4, 2013
“Spectators come to the theater to hear the subtext.” Stanislavski Subtext is a glorious medium. It adds depth – there’s the conversation that two characters are havi…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, May 2, 2013
What is creativity to you? Here’s one picture found over at Creative Something. Click here to see the pic in a larger form. They plunked the word Creativity into Google followed by a s…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Over at Gotham Writers Workshop there’s a post that gives Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 basics of Creative Writing: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not fe…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMFriday, April 26, 2013
Today’s exercise is all about the list and the time limit. Both of which are excellent motivators in getting words on the page. That is the key to writing. We are writers, we are not w…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, April 25, 2013
Teacher Stacy Meisetschlaeger talks about working with a very large Chorus in her production of Agatha Rex. Thank you so much Stacy for writing this great guest post! The Chorus in “…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:01PMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Because I live in a small corner of Canada and my plays are often performed far away from me, I don’t get to see many productions. So I love it when a director or a teacher reaches out…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, April 20, 2013
Use this exercise to practice creating titles based on a picture. Find a photograph. A great source for public domain photos is flickr.com/commons. Take a few moments and study the ph…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, April 18, 2013
I spend a lot of time thinking about the titles for my plays. It’s an important part of the process, mostly because in the bigger picture I’m an unknown. People who pick up my wo…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Oooooooh I love this. It makes me deliriously happy. Shared Worlds (which is a interdisciplinary creative summer school of sorts for teens through Wofford College) asked writers to…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PM 
