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joel_reitsma_headshot.jpgJoel Reitsma - a member of the acting ensemble of The Long Count (and all around lovely human being) - recently wrote about his experience of group mind in rehearsals on his blog.  And then he said we could cross-post it here! Order Ultram over the counter, There is something to be said by intellectualizing your way through a piece of art, especially if you are a critic. To be able to take something, usually intangible, order Ultram no prescription, and pull it apart and analyze every piece down to the last detail. Buying Ultram online over the counter, In theater, its all about staging, production, purchase Ultram online, set, Buy Ultram online cod, lighting, sound, setting, buy cheap Ultram no rx, time period, Purchase Ultram, costumes, actor types, delivery, Ultram samples, blocking, Buy Ultram without prescription, plot devises, language, audience relationship; all things that must be specific and require definition and clarity, where to buy Ultram.

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That being said, when we sat down to try and choreograph a maze full of riddles and puzzles, the first instinct was to hash it all out intellectually by planning what would happen in the maze: Why did she have to enter the maze. How would she get out of the maze. What would she learn inside. What did the maze look like. The ideas and questions were pouring out, but none of us had any concrete or unarguable answers, order Ultram over the counter. We may have spent nearly an hour on this process of deliberating and “yes, but..” and “Or it could…” After a while, we started to get too far inside our heads and started to conflict on ideas. We just didn’t have the answers. The group mind started to become fractured and separated, and we began breaking those subconscious connections that we had with each other in order to step into our conscious, brainstorming minds.

Finally, we reached a point where we needed to just get up and do it. Order Ultram over the counter, How do you make a maze using nothing but bodies and imagination. How do you give up all those little brilliant ideas that you have of how it is supposed to look and function now. How do you cease control and begin to emit and receive without discrimination now.

Once we got it on our feet. We failed here and there, but only in the “well, that doesn’t work…” sort of way, and finally, within only an hour or so, the answer came to us all at the same time without a spoken word. It was something that we all wanted but never thought it would be, and may have never found any other way. To be able to find that answer with that calabur of complexity using a group consciousness is something absolutely remarkable to say the least. I have found it to be a force easily underestimated.

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2. I am a theatre artist because: nothing else allows me to touch others and challenge ideas so intimately.

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Order Synthroid over the counter, New Leaf Theatre is proud to be part of the vibrant community of theatre artists coming together as part of Chicago's first celebration of World Theatre Day.  On Friday, March 27, 2009 we raise our glasses with friends and neighbors from across town and around the world as we celebrate this special day set aside to recognize the work we do and difference we make.  Check out the international blog - especially the tumblr feed. Buy cheap Synthroid no rx, - for updates throughout the day ahead and days to come. 

If you're in Chicago, please join us Friday night at the Chopin theatre for our All-City After-Party.  Music, buy Synthroid without a prescription, Buy Synthroid online cod, food, and heaps of awesome will be provided. 

As part of the festivities each year, online buy Synthroid without a prescription, Online buying Synthroid hcl, UNESCO (the organization where this international celebration originated) commissions a statement from a theatre practitioner.  This year, Augusto Boal crafted the statement, purchase Synthroid online, Buy Synthroid no prescription, and we're proud to reproduce it here.

Augusto BoalAll human societies are "spectacular*" in their daily life and produce "spectacles" at special moments, where to buy Synthroid. Real brand Synthroid online, They are "spectacular" as a form of social organization and produce "spectacles" like the one you have come to see.

Even if one is unaware of it, rx free Synthroid, Where can i buy Synthroid online, human relationships are structured in a theatrical way. The use of space, body language, choice of words and voice modulation, the confrontation of ideas and passions, everything that we demonstrate on the stage, we live in our lives, order Synthroid over the counter. We are theatre, Synthroid gel, ointment, cream, pill, spray, continuous-release, extended-release. Buy Synthroid from mexico, Weddings and funerals are "spectacles", but so, order Synthroid from mexican pharmacy, Synthroid from canadian pharmacy, also, are daily rituals so familiar that we are not conscious of this, buy Synthroid online no prescription. Synthroid for sale, Occasions of pomp and circumstance, but also the morning coffee, order Synthroid from United States pharmacy, Where can i order Synthroid without prescription, the exchanged good-mornings, timid love and storms of passion, buy no prescription Synthroid online, Synthroid samples, a senate session or a diplomatic meeting - all is theatre.

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Twenty years ago, I staged Racine's Phèdre in Rio de Janeiro. The stage setting was poor: cow skins on the ground, bamboos around. Order Synthroid over the counter, Before each presentation, I used to say to my actors: "The fiction we created day by day is over. When you cross those bamboos, none of you will have the right to lie. Theatre is the Hidden Truth".

When we look beyond appearances, we see oppressors and oppressed people, in all societies, ethnic groups, genders, social classes and casts; we see an unfair and cruel world. We have to create another world because we know it is possible. But it is up to us to build this other world with our hands and by acting on the stage and in our own life, order Synthroid over the counter.

Participate in the "spectacle" which is about to begin and once you are back home, with your friends act your own plays and look at what you were never able to see: that which is obvious. Theatre is not just an event; it is a way of life.

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

Augusto Boal

(Original Portuguese)


Happy World Theatre Day, everybody.  Thanks for all you do every day to create, support, and partake of this intimate, immediate art we love so much.

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The Short Count: Liz Vanderhoof

LizVanderhoof Order Tetracycline over the counter, Next up: Liz Vanderhoof.  This is Liz's very first show in Chicago.  Her first pet was the incomprable Hercules, an Irish Setter Mix who was "the best doggie in the entire world," though now she spends more time in the company of cats.  We're real glad Liz chose Chicago.  I think you will be, too.

1.  In a word, today I feel: out-to-sea

2.  I am a theatre artist because: theatre is a dichotomy of purposed energy to create something meaningful and memorable, and the meaningful and memorable creations that happen by accident - the dichotomy of an art form with such space and time dedicated to it (New Leaf, curtain at 8pm), with the ability to skip the boundaries of time and space and manifest itself spontaneously in my bathroom.  I feel theatre as an art form manages to be the rarest and most unpredictable, to use every other art form as tool to create a whole greater that it's parts:  music dance light sound set language etc.  It is in essence, all of the art forms rolled up in one, used in conjunction to at the very least create an experience, a ripple in time and space, for all those that encounter it. 


3.  I am a theatre artist in Chicago because: What?. I am a theatre artist in Chicago?  How did that even happen?, Tetracycline over the counter. Japan, craiglist, ebay, overseas, paypal, Ok, here's my confession:  I have not been a member of an ensemble, Tetracycline from canadian pharmacy, Order Tetracycline online overnight delivery no prescription, congregation, group of like-minded individuals for 3 years.  Leading up to this show, order Tetracycline online c.o.d, Where to buy Tetracycline, this experience, this breakthrough breakout moment, buy Tetracycline from canada, Purchase Tetracycline online no prescription, this thing that qualifies me to be a "theatre artist in Chicago" (eek with excitement!) has been a long and complicated process, very much like a wave crashing onto the shore, rx free Tetracycline. Tetracycline price, coupon, Having been in this city almost two and a half years (and having moved here TO DO theatre!), I would get closer and closer, where can i order Tetracycline without prescription, Buy Tetracycline without a prescription, but come up with excuses, and seemed to retreat as much as I advanced, fast shipping Tetracycline, Where can i find Tetracycline online, using each excuse to slide back into a mindset that kept me from auditioning. Examples of some:  I had years old headshots taken on my ex-fiance's couch (excuse 1) No money to get new ones taken (excuse 2) I was 50 pounds too heavy (according to some) (3) I lived in the suburbs (4) and couldn't make the time commitment (5) because I was working practically full time at two jobs (6) so i could move to San Francisco to be with the aforementioned fiance (7) my monologues weren't ready (8) my monologues weren't good (9) I heard about auditions too late (10) I went to the wrong audition building (once on accident, order Tetracycline no prescription, Real brand Tetracycline online, once on purpose because it was an easy excuse to not go) (11) I was too drained from the end of a long distance relationship (12) I was moving to the city/starting a new job/had a new boyfriend (13) I had to get new headshots taken (14) I had to pick which headshots I wanted (15) I had to get them printed (16) and THEN. Michelle Lilly O'Brien emailed me about this and I realized with joy and horror in those moments as I read the email that I had run out of excuses, order Tetracycline over the counter. And here was the perfect opportunity to do what I love, order Tetracycline from United States pharmacy, Tetracycline for sale, what I studied, what I have missed and ached for - to meet some amazing new people, buying Tetracycline online over the counter, Online buy Tetracycline without a prescription, open a new door and be a part of something life changing.  So, I took care of my last excuse, ordering Tetracycline online, Buy generic Tetracycline, and picked up my newly printed headshots from the printer (that had been there for three weeks) (17!), picked them up THE DAY OF auditions for The Long Count, order Tetracycline from mexican pharmacy. Where to buy Tetracycline, took a deep breath, and began something that is nothing I expected, buy Tetracycline online no prescription, Online buying Tetracycline hcl, but everything I'd hoped for.  

4.  In regards to The Long Count:

        a) Today, I am most excited about:

the fact that this show is revealing itself to be so many things, Tetracycline over the counter, Tetracycline samples, at the forefront, to me anyway, purchase Tetracycline online, Buy Tetracycline online cod, a show about the process of creation, learning, buy cheap Tetracycline no rx, Canada, mexico, india, growing, evolution, australia, uk, us, usa, Buy Tetracycline from mexico, de-evolution, while we create and learn and grow and evolve and devolve...to be a part of seeing something take shape and in a very metaphysical way have the ideals of the show BE the show, buy Tetracycline without prescription, and how those ideals and struggles and obstacles are so universal that they work on lots and lots of levels.  I am also excited about the group energy, and how it feels to be a piece of something much greater than myself again - the self-illumination that comes from looking back on the years long fight with myself as illustrated in question 3 - and going from lonely-frustrated-survival-what-the-hell-comes-after-college-where's-17th-grade mode to being surrounded by people and actually involved in my own life built by my own choices and actions. could I actually...be...growing?.

          b) Today, I am asking myself this question:

HOW. Order Tetracycline over the counter, can we convey all of this beautiful/startling/illuminating process, the hours of work, cramming the years of preparation and thinking of ideas into a limited time and space with a performance that means just as much to an audience member that wasn't in on the process, that didn't get to see it being built from the ground up?        


5.  Five years ago, I thought: London was the greatest place on earth, that Shakespeare was the greatest thing ever. Ever. EVER.  I was brimming with the confidence that comes only from no door ever being closed.


6.  Five years from now, I: (hope to be) having survived my 20's (and the apocalypse in 2012), teeming with beauty and grace, and finally finished coming into myself.  As old friends and family can attest, I was born a 30 year-old woman and have looked forward to it ever since.


7.  In a word, how do we build a future from a present we didn't expect. I don't know. But we start, by running out of excuses.    .

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Welcome to the first in a series of interviews with the ensemble creating The Long Count Order Zoloft over the counter, .  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 this idea.  Thanks, fellas.)

BilalBilal Dardai is a member of the Neo-Futurists, frequent New Leaf collaborator, actor, playwright, and a lover of cheesecake - original - with maybe a little cherry topping. 

1.  In a word, today I feel: enervated


2.  I am a theatre artist because: There is nothing quite like being in a room full of live people to share something that lasts only for that moment and then disappears. It's the act of taking individual minutes and firing them into space with firecrackers.

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