Productions

Turn of the Screw: Some words from our director

October 13, 2010

This is the first of what we hope will be a series of short videos for The Turn of the Screw where the involved artists talk about the production: And, hey: if you think this is a cool idea and you can’t attend OR are wanting to know how you can help us with the [...]

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Turn of the Screw: the footsteps we follow

October 11, 2010

The version of The Turn of the Screw that we are presenting at the end of this month was created in 1996 by American playwright Jeffrey Hatcher.  But Screw has been fascinating artists ever since Henry James first published his novel in 1898, and here is a rundown of some of the better-known retellings and [...]

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Clustercuss

September 15, 2010

Oh, the local theatre critics are a-flutter.  Last week, Alvina Ruprecht sent an email to as many Ottawa-based artistic directors as she could contact, pointing out that there were six productions opening in the city this week, with multiple openings on each of the prime theatre nights (Thursday and Friday).  She wondered if companies couldn’t [...]

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Macbeth: the grease curse

July 19, 2010

When an outdoor theatre festival like the St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival comes into conflict with Mother Nature, it has to go indoors.  For the preview performance of Macbeth, Mother Nature sent us lightning and heavy rain, and so we had to pack the show up and perform it in our alternate venue — a church [...]

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Shooting lessons

May 9, 2010
This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Shooting "Airport Security"

I’m coming back to this series of posts after a bit of an absence, and I apologize… but I do want to finish them up, as a resource for other people who are trying to do what we did with the Airport Security webisodes.  This is information for video-making noobs, because we were/are noobs ourselves.  [...]

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Airport Security is now cleared for viewing

April 10, 2010

We’re about eight weeks away from Gruppo Rubato‘s world premiere of Airport Security — the play that Patrick Gauthier has been slaving over since the tail end of our Chuchill Protocol tour three years ago. The three scenes we filmed in January have been cut together and cleaned up and polished, and now that we’ve [...]

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The Courage to move

February 9, 2010

The NAC acting company and the production crew from our production of Mother Courage and her Children have been in Winnipeg for a few days now.  We are setting up the show for its run here, which opens on Thursday. I love taking a show to a new theatre: in some ways it feels like [...]

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Preview of a dress rehearsal

January 18, 2010

Mother Courage and Her Children is open; it has been quite a week for the National Arts Centre’s English Acting Company. I wrote previously about the immense challenges presented to us by mounting a play that is considered one of Brecht’s masterworks.  The outcome of working through those challenges was a Pay-What-You-Can dress rehearsal this [...]

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Learning to drive Mother Courage’s cart

January 11, 2010

For a play that is often referred to as one the theatrical masterpieces of the 20th century, Mother Courage and Her Children is not staged very often.  I suppose, like many plays that have had long lives, it comes in and out of fashion.  But I also suppose that we don’t see it more often [...]

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Pillowman opening night, and another ticket giveaway!

September 25, 2009

Mostly in the interest of following up on my previous post, I wanted to say that we opened The Pillowman last night and the evening went even better than I expected.  There were a couple of rough edges, but nothing at all unexpected for such a complex production, and on the whole I think we’ve [...]

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