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Creating Accessible Theatre
“Access” is a hot word in theater discourse right now. Often conversations revolve around how to make a performance accessible, and the solutions people come up with usually have to do with – a matinee performance labeled as Family Friendly, one or two pre-planned shows with interpreters for Deaf and Hard of Hearing patrons, Relaxed […]
The Journey – Development Notes, 11.29.17
[This post is a continuation of a series about the developmental process of THE JOURNEY. Click here to read the previous post.] Our meeting work session today included Jeremy, the Assistant Director. Yo-El and I read the script aloud, alternating scenes, while Jeremy and Georgia listened and took notes. This was Jeremy’s first encounter with […]
The Journey – Development Notes, 11.15.17
This post is inspired by the honest and straightforward reflection of the making of theatre in The Production Notebooks, edited by Mark Bly. The Journey began development in the fall of 2017. Yo-El Cassell was the instigating artist. This play is inspired by both Herman Melville’s Moby Dick: Or, The Whale and Ahab’s Wife: Or, […]
An Accidental Playwright
I’m on draft 11 of the show I’m developing for Quarter 4. It’s only 20 pages, but we’re predicting the runtime will be somewhere around 2h45min. Yo-El Cassell (Director), Georgia Zildjian (Dramaturg) and I (Narrative Designer/Dramaturg) have been meeting weekly for the past two months to iron out the story and create a script that […]
Diana Oh’s {my lingerie play} Installation 9/10: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!!
Two weeks ago, I took off for a weekend workshop in NYC and seized the opportunity to see Diana Oh’s {my lingerie play} Installation 9/10: THE CONCERT CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! at The Rattlestick in the West Village. I have been following Diana Oh’s work online for the past few years and was thrilled to be able […]
Notes on things to do as a Production Dramaturg at BU
What follows started as a reference list for me, but I think it could be useful for me to be transparent with what I’ve learned in the hope that it can make the role of Production Dramaturg easier on other students. I am not doing this work perfectly. That’s part of why I’m writing it […]
Engagement through Connectivity
con·nect /kəˈnekt/ verb bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established. join together so as to provide access and communication. link to a power or water supply. think of as being linked or related. form a relationship or feel an affinity. –English Oxford Living Dictionaries As the Connectivity Associate […]
Spielberg’s Velociraptor
There was a time when I only wanted to make art that reflected the world that I want to live in not the world that I do live in. That lasted for about 3 months. I was inspired in part by an NYC cab driver who had told me that he wouldn’t listen to “angry […]
Dear Young Jean Lee
Dear Young Jean Lee, Hey. You can call me Cor. (Not everybody does, but you can.) You don’t know me…yet, but we have something special in common. Namely — Pullman, WA. Not your play, although, yes, I bought a copy the moment I found out it existed. Pullman, WA, the place. You grew up there. […]
On Dramaturgy
dramaturgy is nimble, expansive, thrilling, agitating, full of discovery, nuanced, specific. dramaturgy is engaging (and it is responsive to the people it is meant to engage.) dramaturgy can exist in a play bill, but if that’s it, ugh. dramaturgy must be done by everyone working on the production. but… the dramaturg is an igniter. the […]
Drama Lit Blog 2.0: BU School of Theatre 