Sunday, June 10, 2007

one week to go
It's Sunday night, after 1 AM. I've seen more of this side of midnight lately than I have all year. It's amazing how, when you have a show to do, you pull everything out of you and suddenly an almost herculean strength comes pouring out of you and you have more energy than ever before. I'm barely sleeping--when I do it is light and filled with guns and news casts and images from the war or violence in America. This show has permeated every pore of my being. And yet.
Why do we do theatre? I think it was Tony Kushner who spoke once about the "icky reality" of real people experiencing real things in real time. And it is that amazingly vulnerable and totally real place where theatre can put those of us creating it and also the audience that makes all this so worth it.
I may not be very articulate tonight. But you get what I mean.
Caitlin.

Posted by WHTC at 9:57 PM 0 comments

ok, the show is almost there....

and we're getting tired. posters all up, cards out, edits almost all done to pieces, rehearsals start tonight! Theatre is the most completely all life consuming ....I'm sleeping (or not sleeping) this show, eating it, living it...at night I dream of guns and war, I wake up early covered with sweat. More soon...
A bedraggled, tired Artistic Director
C.

almost at a new show

Here we are a week away until the cast arrives for Letters to the NRA. Working this way on shows that get formed this quickly with all new works is incredibly exciting, exhilarating and also exhausting and terrifying. If it were not for the key people who make this work, like Craig Pospisil WHTC's Artistic Advisor who reads many of the submissions for a 2nd opinion, talks through the show with me ad-nauseum, addresses all the issues together, I would be sunk. At this point the actors are working hard on their own to learn their pieces and we'll come together next week--some who are local early in the week, to put the it together. It truly takesa village in this art form, which is what I love--being open and hearing the show form with the ideas and knowledge of so many put together. More soon...

great site and blog!

so....to start. I can't believe I have such a gorgeous website and a blog! thanks so much to Bethany who is the best thing that ever happened to whtc!!!
C.

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