I promise I will take pictures tomorrow!
But for now here are some things-
Quote on the first day "If you have spent time in the theater and have lost hope, get out."
Good one.
I feel like I have been doing this for about a month already as much as I feel like I just got here.
I am living in Chelsea (a block from the Chelsea Hotel actually...) and the general adjustment to New York has been pretty easy. I feel pretty at home here already, although I am desperate to have some food in the fridge and an actual blanket for my air mattress I am sleeping on. It's kinda like urban camping. My roommate is awesome though and I like it.
So back to the lab.
This week we have been spending our mornings with Ben Kryowz doing this collaboration process training. It's all about identify values and roles and expectations in a collaboration (which means any time people work together, not just group generated work) and building communities. Super complex and totally common sense at the same time. But it makes you go through and identify things so you can be more conscious of how you work. I had a slap in the face moment about value assumptions. Hard to explain right now. Later entry.
Directors are a very opinionated group of people. Myself included. That is all on that for now.
The afternoons have been watching the presentations of new plays that have been in workshop rehearsal at Lincoln Center with professional actors. The writers where told to run the room and the directors where there as needed. They also had a designer there to observe and talk with. We watched the presentation and they talked about what happened after and we could ask questions about the process but not comment on the play. Which was super painful for alot of people. It mostly seemed from the discussions that people slid back into their roles at the first chance. There are more presentations and a response book to read about it though so I can't say I know what I am taking from it yet.
Then in the evening we have been in small groups with 4 directors, 2 actors, 1 designer, and 1
writer and we were assigned roles other than our normal ones and worked on a new short play by John Guare. I was the designer and then I had to step in as an actor because we where missing someone. Richard Masur was in my group. Cool huh?
There is some conversation fatigue going around in general but I am getting a lot out of it. It is going to take some time to synthesize it. As soon as I decide what I think about something somebody comes by and shakes it all up.
We get the morning off because Richard Eyre, who was scheduled to work with us can't make it till tuesday. So I think I am going to see if I can pull something useful out of my notes. Wallowing in confusion right now. Time to go to bed and hope my dreams file some of it.
Quote on the first day "If you have spent time in the theater and have lost hope, get out."
Good one.
I feel like I have been doing this for about a month already as much as I feel like I just got here.
I am living in Chelsea (a block from the Chelsea Hotel actually...) and the general adjustment to New York has been pretty easy. I feel pretty at home here already, although I am desperate to have some food in the fridge and an actual blanket for my air mattress I am sleeping on. It's kinda like urban camping. My roommate is awesome though and I like it.
So back to the lab.
This week we have been spending our mornings with Ben Kryowz doing this collaboration process training. It's all about identify values and roles and expectations in a collaboration (which means any time people work together, not just group generated work) and building communities. Super complex and totally common sense at the same time. But it makes you go through and identify things so you can be more conscious of how you work. I had a slap in the face moment about value assumptions. Hard to explain right now. Later entry.
Directors are a very opinionated group of people. Myself included. That is all on that for now.
The afternoons have been watching the presentations of new plays that have been in workshop rehearsal at Lincoln Center with professional actors. The writers where told to run the room and the directors where there as needed. They also had a designer there to observe and talk with. We watched the presentation and they talked about what happened after and we could ask questions about the process but not comment on the play. Which was super painful for alot of people. It mostly seemed from the discussions that people slid back into their roles at the first chance. There are more presentations and a response book to read about it though so I can't say I know what I am taking from it yet.
Then in the evening we have been in small groups with 4 directors, 2 actors, 1 designer, and 1
writer and we were assigned roles other than our normal ones and worked on a new short play by John Guare. I was the designer and then I had to step in as an actor because we where missing someone. Richard Masur was in my group. Cool huh?There is some conversation fatigue going around in general but I am getting a lot out of it. It is going to take some time to synthesize it. As soon as I decide what I think about something somebody comes by and shakes it all up.
We get the morning off because Richard Eyre, who was scheduled to work with us can't make it till tuesday. So I think I am going to see if I can pull something useful out of my notes. Wallowing in confusion right now. Time to go to bed and hope my dreams file some of it.
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