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The Short Count: Bilal Dardai
Welcome to the first in a series of interviews with the ensemble creating The Long Count. In each interview with one of our fellow journey-ers, we’ll break out the internal compass and see where we are in our adventuring. With just seven questions, I thought a clever title for this series would be The Short Count.
(Hats off to Simon Ogden and Ian Mackenzie, from whom I respectfully adapted...
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Following the Flock
The combination of our 1.5 weeks of rehearsal for The Long Count and the variety of media I’ve been checking out (or re-checking out) explaining in great detail our current economic pit of despair has me thinking a lot about this idea of group mind.
This concept was first introduced to me in college during my brief time as an improvisor (and a proud member of Lincoln, Nebraska’s Huge...
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Working Script
Tonight New Leaf put together a draft of our working script for The Long Count. On the wall. In index cards.
Rehearsals start on Wednesday.
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Paraskavedekatriaphobia: Or, an Alarming Evening
The title of this post refers to a fear of Friday the 13th. I consider myself a fairly superstitious person – but not about this sort of thing. I won’t mention the name of the Scottish Play in the theatre. I knock on wood when I think I may have spoken too soon. I won’t tell my bad dreams before breakfast because that may cause them to come true.
But this is my cat. He...
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Good Surprise
This past weekend for New Leaf and the cast and crew of Touch was like having your work checked by your favorite teacher…
No, that’s not quite right.
It was like meeting your best friend’s mom and hoping she doesn’t think you’ve been a bad influence…
That’s not it either.
It was like meeting the person who invented soup…
No.
It was like meeting the biological...
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