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Wheels in Motion.
” The wheels are in motion. There’s nothing you can do to turn it back. The only thing you can do is cooperate. To play ball. To become part of us.” – Taylor
Most of the New Leaf and Curse of the Starving Class team met up recently at one of our favorite haunts for a fantastic first read through together. We gathered ourselves around some good food...
Opening Night – A Goon’s Eye View
An opening warning to all readers:
I heart New Leaf Theatre. They simply rock socks and I’m thrilled to be a part of their process. To avoid this post becoming an all-out unadulterated love-fest to the Leaf, I will make an effort to provide a tempered behind the scenes look at the experience of bringing Bilal Dardai’s adaptation of G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday to...
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Pay No Attention to the Laughter in the Corner
Amanda Frechette joined New Leaf as an Artistic Associate this year – and she’s also the stage management force that keeps shows (and presets) as complex as The Man Who Was Thursday running smooth as butter.
It’s only a day before we open The Man Who Was Thursday and I am sitting at home fully dressed but wearing slippers, fuzzy robe and winter hat. I have been a victim of the common...
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...
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