by Samie Jo Johnson | Mar 11, 2020 | Blog, Events, Rehearsal Updates
We made it halfway, to the play within the play! The scene where all of our actors appear onstage at once and the truth is revealed. Which truth? Come and see! Ever since a small child in the front row of a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream called out to...
by Samie Jo Johnson | Mar 1, 2020 | Blog, Rehearsal Updates
“What was super memorable [last week] was dropping in for Claudius’ ‘O my offense is rank’ soliloquy– it was my first time dropping in with a soliloquy, and it unlocked the text and truth of the scene for me in a new way. He’s...
by Samie Jo Johnson | Feb 22, 2020 | Blog, Rehearsal Updates
There’s a certain excitement and dread in the air as we approach that scene: the mad scene. Annie, our director, kindly reminds us that we need not, as actors, snap ourselves to represent Ophelia’s inner state as she wildly delivers flowers and melodies....
by Samie Jo Johnson | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog, Rehearsal Updates
Spoiler alert: ‘Twas a long night of moving in and out of tragedy, experiencing a myriad of ways to give and receive dreadful news. It was taxing, to say the least, to hear the 16-line description of Ophelia’s drowning over and over and over again as we...
by Samie Jo Johnson | Feb 5, 2020 | Blog, Rehearsal Updates
Well, that’s up to the law of the draw then, innit? From freshly escaping breath to philosophic waxing over bones longer gone…There’s a lot of death in Act Five of Hamlet. We’ve now worked slowly through the two most morbid scenes and quite a...
by Samie Jo Johnson | Jan 22, 2020 | Blog, Rehearsal Updates
Spoiler Alert. At our last rehearsal, bodies hit the floor 44 different times only to rise again and “mercury in” to another role for the next round. We’ve now completed the first two weeks of our process for round three of Mercury Hamlet and...
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