Posts Tagged ‘theatre’
Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo
Director of New Works, Laura Brueckner, talks about the thought process behind selecting this year’s Matchbox Reading Series plays. Selecting new plays for a reading series is truly a fascinating process. It’s quite different than selecting new plays for full production, and that difference is actually exciting and liberating in many ways. When your staging [...]
Read More
Laugh…or you just might cry
Crowded Fire Artistic Director Marissa Wolf weighs in on the art of the comedy. Humor is a tricky thing in theater. I love the razor sharp edge between laughing and grimacing, between a pee-your-pants chortles and the eerie silence that knocks you out cold. Our first two shows this season, Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Exit, Pursued [...]
Read More
What’s local got to do with it?
I’ve been surprised by conversations sprouting up at recent theater conferences this year about how far regional theaters in America have strayed from their historical roots. In one of the early morning plenary sessions at the 2011 Theatre Bay Area Conference, panelists investigated the role of theater across the U.S., citing the surge of regional [...]
Read More
High Tech Theater
An interview with Sticky Time set and lighting designer Andrew Lu: What is your design philosophy? My work is informed, first and foremost, by the play’s script and my designs are created to facilitate the story being told. My approach to creating an environment for a play leans towards the stylistic rather than the realistic [...]
Read More
Lighting Up BEAR
An interview with Bear lighting designer, Jarrod Green: What is your design philosophy and/or approach? In general, and I know this is kind of cliché to say, I try to make sure the lights are supporting what the writing and the directing and the acting is trying to do. And the way I approach that [...]
Read More
Lights Up On SONGS!
an interview with Stephanie Buchner, lighting designer for Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven What drew you to the SONGS script? I love how crazy it is. When I read it the first time I was very excited about how it plays (literally) with form. I love plays that don’t make linear dramatic sense [...]
Read More
A Story of My Sister
Songs is the story of a Korean-American. There are, of course, Koreans and White Persons in this play, but their existence is rather parasitic. Without the flesh and blood of the Korean-American, they would be lifeless and perhaps nonexistent, as they are merely part of the Korean-American’s identity. I have been asked a number of [...]
Read More
Calling All Asians
In Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, the script calls for the following character breakdown: Koreans 1, 2 and 3 should be played by actresses who are one hundred percent Korean, Chinese or Japanese…When not speaking English, Koreans 1, 2 and 3 speak their native language, whatever that may be. Ideally, one would speak [...]
Read More
You Are What You Eat
I forget exactly when my personal love affair with kimchi began – I only know that my affection has never wavered. There is always a jar in my refrigerator, and I have spent many, many late nights in New York’s Korea Town, slurping jap chae noodles and sneaking the last bite of bulgogi. The first [...]
Read More
© 2013 Crowded Fire Theater