theindependenteye
03-04-2009, 01:05 PM
Friends,
Here's the latest monthly update of our TEMPEST blog for our puppet/mask staging of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST scheduled for Sept. 2009, a collaboration between The Independent Eye and Sonoma County Rep.
It's at The Independent Eye: News (https://www.independenteye.org/news/)
Mike Nichols once said that directing is somewhat like having sex in that you rarely get to see someone else doing it. So this is one director's try at revealing all, though I'll save the sex part for a different blog. I'm now up to entry #24, much more than you're likely to read, but it's good material for skimming. And, I think, interesting both for more mainstream theatre makers & fans and for those who are a bit more out-there.
We very much welcome comments & questions & wild ideas -- there's a place for comments on the blog. And please pass the link along to friends, students, or colleagues who may be interested in Shakespeare, puppetry, acting, or the creative process in general.
Peace & joy,
Conrad Bishop
The Independent Eye
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Tempest #24 - Set Design - The challenge of creating vast spectacle within a 10 ft. space: a new rendering, plus photos of the set model, plus my thinking about it all, plus what still needs to be solved.
Tempest #23 - All Sorts of Stuff - Sculpting the drunken fools. Auditioning actors in an utterly unfamiliar style. More thoughts on Caliban and his final moments.
Tempest #22 - Enemies/2:1 Storyboard - Scenario, notes and sketches for the first scene with the Neapolitan Court: Alonso, Sebastian, Gonzalo and Antonio, wherein Prospero's magic foils a coup against his enemy.
Tempest #21 - Clearing the Decks - Finishing Rash Acts and starting heavy work on Tempest, with once-in-a-lifetime photos of a clean studio and shop. Lessons from Rash Acts: (1) struggle with a technical manipulation issue, wishing my own wrist would bend a different way; (2) the joy of cheap theatrics; (3) making after-show audience talk more functional; (4) the challenges of a gestural art in a non-gestural culture.
Tempest #20 - Ferdinand/1:2D Storyboard - Scenario, notes and sketches for the first scene between the lovers, as Prospero's success in sparking their explosive chemistry challenges his own self-control.
Tempest #19 - Three Calibans - Video & more thoughts about Caliban stemming from our last workshop. And wrestling with the play's gnarly ending.
Here's the latest monthly update of our TEMPEST blog for our puppet/mask staging of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST scheduled for Sept. 2009, a collaboration between The Independent Eye and Sonoma County Rep.
It's at The Independent Eye: News (https://www.independenteye.org/news/)
Mike Nichols once said that directing is somewhat like having sex in that you rarely get to see someone else doing it. So this is one director's try at revealing all, though I'll save the sex part for a different blog. I'm now up to entry #24, much more than you're likely to read, but it's good material for skimming. And, I think, interesting both for more mainstream theatre makers & fans and for those who are a bit more out-there.
We very much welcome comments & questions & wild ideas -- there's a place for comments on the blog. And please pass the link along to friends, students, or colleagues who may be interested in Shakespeare, puppetry, acting, or the creative process in general.
Peace & joy,
Conrad Bishop
The Independent Eye
***
Tempest #24 - Set Design - The challenge of creating vast spectacle within a 10 ft. space: a new rendering, plus photos of the set model, plus my thinking about it all, plus what still needs to be solved.
Tempest #23 - All Sorts of Stuff - Sculpting the drunken fools. Auditioning actors in an utterly unfamiliar style. More thoughts on Caliban and his final moments.
Tempest #22 - Enemies/2:1 Storyboard - Scenario, notes and sketches for the first scene with the Neapolitan Court: Alonso, Sebastian, Gonzalo and Antonio, wherein Prospero's magic foils a coup against his enemy.
Tempest #21 - Clearing the Decks - Finishing Rash Acts and starting heavy work on Tempest, with once-in-a-lifetime photos of a clean studio and shop. Lessons from Rash Acts: (1) struggle with a technical manipulation issue, wishing my own wrist would bend a different way; (2) the joy of cheap theatrics; (3) making after-show audience talk more functional; (4) the challenges of a gestural art in a non-gestural culture.
Tempest #20 - Ferdinand/1:2D Storyboard - Scenario, notes and sketches for the first scene between the lovers, as Prospero's success in sparking their explosive chemistry challenges his own self-control.
Tempest #19 - Three Calibans - Video & more thoughts about Caliban stemming from our last workshop. And wrestling with the play's gnarly ending.