Driven By the Wind Attending the table reading of La Ruta was a powerful experience, and there are many vivid scenes that linger in my mind. One scene in particular resonates with me for a variety of reasons. Though the stage direction was just read aloud, I could...
This week our Fresh Eyes observer, Martha Spence, was in rehearsals watching as the characters and their relationships emerge and start to clarify. Here are her thoughts on this intricate process: I find the play both thought provoking, and emotionally engaging. Here...
WOLF PLAY by Hansol Jung began rehearsals this week -- an exciting development for this play that was commissioned in 2017 by Table|Room|Stage. The story, created and shared by the Wolf, centers around a young Korean boy (Jeenu) who was adopted by an American family...
TEENAGE DICK is in the last phase of rehearsal: preview week, when the final element of any production -- the audience -- arrives. Having an audience changes everything: laughs affect timing of lines, bodies soak up sound and volume has to be adjusted, skilled actors...
Tech week is upon us! TEENAGE DICK has moved from the rehearsal hall to the stage, and all of the technical aspects -- lights, sounds, costumes and set -- are being integrated into the play. For several days, the actors' primary job is to deliver the cues for some...
Our Fresh Eyes volunteers, Mary Schmidt, Jim Mayer, and Elizabeth Tavares joined us during the rehearsal process of Mike Lew's Teenage Dick, directed by Josh Hecht. Read their observations and learn more about Fresh Eyes.
It's the last week of working in the rehearsal room for TEENAGE DICK, and the focus is on refining and enriching the actors' work before they move into the theatre next week: adding layers to characters and relationships, getting punches exactly right, building the...
Rehearsals for TEENAGE DICK are focussed on scene work and fight choreography this week. The actors are building their characters layer by layer, always pursuing greater clarity, depth and complexity. Additionally, they are exploring the many ways that their...
TEENAGE DICK is in its second week of rehearsal, and the work is now focussed on how the actors move during the play: staging, plus fight and dance choreography. Each week, we invite our Fresh Eyes volunteers to attend rehearsal and then share their observations. We...
Rehearsals began this Tuesday, December 11th, for TEENAGE DICK, Mike Lew's new play that is "vaguely after Richard III". Lew takes the broad outlines of Shakespeare's play and resets it in an American high school. Richard, a student with cerebral palsy, is determined...