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re-writing Chesterton – thoughts from our dramaturg
G.K. Chesterton
New Leaf posed How do the stories we tell rewrite what we become? as its season question. The first play of the season is adapted from the G.K. Chesterton’s novel, The Man Who Was Thursday. This begs the question: how did Chesterton hope to rewrite the world with his novel, and how does the company hope to rewrite Chesterton in this production?
Considering Chesterton has an entry...
Tags: Thursday
Photoblog: Treehouse the First
A few photos from the first installment of our Treehouse reading series – ‘Wall of Water’ by Sherry Kramer. Well, most of these photos are from the rehearsal that morning, actually – the light is so much better in the dance room where they were rehearsing!
Kyra, directing:
Katie Genualdi as Meg:
Marsha Harman, reading Wendy:
Our fantastic artistic intern, Tyler Monroe, reading...
Treehouse Reading – today! WALL OF WATER by Sherry Kramer
We’ve got a full day at the Leaf today, kids. First, it’s time to stumble through THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY and see what we have wrought. And then – and THEN! It’s time for our first-ever Treehouse Reading – and the play’s an old favorite of ours – Sherry Kramer’s THE WALL OF WATER. Kyra’s directing, and we have an excellent cast. An EXCELLENT...
Tags: Treehouse
These are the jokes, folks…
image by w.johnson
“Always be comic in tragedy I say. Find the comedy in tragedy and there you shall find the truth.” – The Man Who Was Thursday
It’s been a good stretch since I’ve worked on a comedy. There have been comic elements in my projects of late, but in The Man Who Was Thursday, I have a chance to jump inside a real farce. The comedy in this play is so multi-faceted: from witty...
Tags: Thursday
Digging in.
Image Research for Curse of the Starving Class:
“A whole new world…”
“But we’d all be the same people.”
Under one splintering roof in the desolation of the California desert, four lone wolves try to pull themselves up by bootstraps that keep breaking, seeking to escape the prisons they’ve constructed in Sam Shepard’s blistering exploration...
