http://imagotheatre.com/blog A glimpse into the minds of Carol and Jerry Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:32:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I blogged that I tried to dismantle any meaning when meaning began to arise in a scene in Tick Tack Type. I wrote that doing this was to free the play and not have it land in a didactic world. Today I will contradict my thinking saying that ... http://imagotheatre.com/blog/?p=117 In my last two productions APIS, or The Taste of Honey and The Cuban Missile Tango I kept my cast in the dark for several weeks and then revealed to them the narrative structure of the play. For example in APIS I worked on movement and character development before I ... http://imagotheatre.com/blog/?p=114 I was in New York last week. Saw over 250 actors auditioning for FROGZ, Biglittlethings and ZooZoo – Imago’s signature works of mask theatre. It’s exciting to see young actors who were not yet born when Carol and I first launched FROGZ who will probably be cast in the show ... http://imagotheatre.com/blog/?p=109 I designed the set for No Exit which tips with each actors’ step. The inspiration for the set came from Imago’s mentor Jacques Lecoq. The year is 1977. The place is Portland, Oregon.  I'm in enrolled in The Hayes-Marshall School of Theatre Arts, a year-long course based on the teaching of ... http://imagotheatre.com/blog/?p=105 It’s 3:07 AM and I can’t sleep. Why? Because at rehearsal I climbed a mountain, got to a valley and tomorrow will climb another mountain. Theatre is scaling, climbing and short breath. I hear it’s different in Poland where the arts are heavily subsidized. In Poland, the valleys and mountains ... http://imagotheatre.com/blog/?p=100 My next show The Cuban Missile Tango opens in less than two weeks.  I've have 1500 movements, two pages of streaming overhead supertitles, sound fx blasts here and there and an abstraction of a story of a world crisis. I feel like Michelangelo trying to find the sculpture in the stone (let me take ... http://imagotheatre.com/blog/?p=82 After two days of rehearsal for The Cuban Missile Tango I find that plates, cigars and keys are giving me inspiration.   Early in the process of this movement, dance, mime,  vaudeville play-without-word, it’s the action that gives it the drive.  I have these headlines in my head, which I don’t reveal ... http://imagotheatre.com/blog/?p=79 In The Cuban Missile Tango, I am looking for a collision of two worlds.  Currently I am writing outlines. I begin rehearsal in a month.  The outline is only one or two pages but it provides a very important framework from which to build the play. The Cuban Missile Crisis took ... http://imagotheatre.com/blog/?p=74 My staging comes from discovering the space.  The actors first move in the set and then I rediscover the space as they feel  freed or trapped by it.  It is always unique and heartfelt and then I impose my own movement style and choices on top of that. I like song and dance. ... http://imagotheatre.com/blog/?p=68 I always start writing from simple moments in my life.  Usually something simple happens and I over react and write a play.  But in this case it was not that simple.  Many people’s lives were changed by the world economic disaster.  Lives were changed and my perspective on life changed with ... http://imagotheatre.com/blog/?p=65