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Sound Designing the Galaxy
Yesterday, the show cracked open for me.
Some backstory – when we first read Touch as a company, it was a show that I *heard*. All plays have elements – puzzle pieces that get translated and fit back together by the production team into a unified whole. Touch was a play where those elements rocketed off the page like rogue asteroids caught up in their own dangerously beautiful velocity....
Domo Arigato, Mr. Gottlieb
Matt Gottlieb plays the role of Bennie Locasto in New Leaf’s upcoming production of TOUCH.
The holidays are coming and while I’m filled with joy I’m also filled with fear. Terror inducing fear. Eye twitch provoking fear. Ok, I’m an actor, I’m prone to hyperbole and being devilishly handsome. Regardless, some amount of fear fills me when it comes to this holiday...
Tags: Touch
Gravity and Momentum
Blog Post from the Director of the Play.
In which she will Rhapsodize.
A lot.
So look out.
We just had our 17th rehearsal for Touch last night. We are into the part of the process where things are starting to spin, are starting to condense, are starting to form together in the center and take on their own mass. It feels a little bit like I imagine watching a star being born must feel. Not like...
Tags: Touch
Discovering Kathleen
The following is a guest post by Jacqueline Stone, who is playing the role of Kathleen in New Leaf’s upcoming production of TOUCH.
I’m having the complete opposite experience of Dan. Right now I am busy exploring a person I was sure I was NEVER going to be. That’s right, a lady of the night, a whore, a hooker, a prostitute, a woman for hire. It’s crazy because I’ve...
The Precipice of Discovery
Dan Granata, who plays Kyle in New Leaf’s upcoming production of TOUCH, cross-posted this article from his own blog, i-homunculus.
Camus casts the actor as existential hero, laughing in the face of death and our own isolated, limited experience of being by allowing us to step into the lives of others – to change realities as easily as we change costumes.
At the very least, working on a...
