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Stretching during the Home Stretch
Jess & Bilal before our first-ever New Leaf talk-back on November 5th
Wow.
Just – wow.
It’s the Wednesday before our penultimate weekend of The Man Who Was Thursday and “wow” is about all the articulateness I can muster. I’ve gotten TWO e-mails today from Marni, our intrepid box office manager, with updates about our rapidly dwindling ticket availability for this...
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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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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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...
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