Struts and Frets: Kris Joseph — Page 2

Prepping the Pines

October 2, 2011

I’m about to start rehearsals for Whispering Pines, which is a new play by Richard Sanger. I’m in love with the script, and excited about the work. I’d call it Chekhov-meets-East-Germany, if that makes any sense. The story of the play revolves around a woman named Renate who, many years after the fall of the [...]

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Finished early!

September 28, 2011

I apologize for my blog-silence over the last while. Every time I had the urge to write something here, I forcefully channeled it into a focus on my playwriting instead. The benefit, though, is that the complete first draft of my play — still titled Entropy — is now finished. I’ve brought it in at [...]

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A bit of re-ordering for the sake of Entropy

August 2, 2011
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Creating Entropy

Work on Entropy is proceeding rather well, I think, with a solid amount of progress in the last week. There was a bunch of “low-hanging fruit” in the script that I wanted to address — fleshing out character interactions, for example, and improving connections between scenes — and the next phase of the work is [...]

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My tech compulsion: my phone is my master

July 25, 2011

Over the past few weeks, I have learned that I am utterly unable to ignore my phone. Unless I turn it off, it rules me completely. I became aware of this because I fell in love with the act of turning my phone off while dedicating time to writing. The less distraction I have, the [...]

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In praise of the outdoor

July 23, 2011

This summer, I have the privilege of not being on contract to work at an outdoor theatre festival for the first time in several years. And what is one of the nicest things that has happened as a result of this? My ability to go out and enjoy a bunch of outdoor summer theatre… as [...]

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The middle bits

July 21, 2011
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Creating Entropy

When I finished my draft of Entropy last fall, I knew it was incomplete. I knew what the situation was, what I thought the central conflict was; how it started and how it would end; and some of how I wanted the style to work… but there was a lot of meat missing in the [...]

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Permission granted

July 14, 2011
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Creating Entropy

I’ve had this play, tentatively titled “Entropy”, rattling around in my head for a couple of years now. Last fall, I challenged myself to finish a draft during a gap in employment, and although I managed the feat, the results were sloppy. Finding the time to write something like a play can be hard. It [...]

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The passion’s the thing. Not the play.

June 19, 2011

The 15th Ottawa Fringe Festival is in full swing, and for the first time in a few years I’ve been able to attend more than a smattering of performances.  I wasn’t able to take in anything on the first day of the festival; in the subsequent two days I’ve seen six festival shows.  It’s been [...]

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It’s not the work; it’s the breaks

June 16, 2011

Often, actors find themselves with odd employment gaps. I’ve written about this before, but because it’s governing my life right now, I have to talk about it again.  I’ve decided to let a bit more of my personal life appear here, because my life and my career are too intimately tied for me to separate [...]

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A better context

June 13, 2011

For the first time in a few years, I was able to take in the Magnetic North Theatre Festival.  For a few reasons, I wasn’t able to submerse myself completely in the festival and the Industry Series, but I managed to catch four of the six plays presented during the week. My Banff/Citadel Professional Program [...]

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