Best luck, Kevin! You might find a few of my essays at Doxie Thoughts of interest: The Decline and Fall of OSF; The 8% Solution: Have We Got the Problem Wrong? and Strike the Ghostlight are three on the topic. I look forward to reading your progress. At the moment I'm working with a partner on a reconsideration of the Scottish play with a dagger-point focus on Him and Her. Without changing a single word we've curated and re-composed the text into something swift and, we hope, powerful. A three-hander, "The Macbeths" asks us to examine the old tropes -- he's a weakling pushed to murderousness by his monstrous wife -- and to ask what happens when love and passion devolve into base appetite; what happens when a stable state is upturned; and what roles do fate and free will play in the mystery we move through, blind to almost everything? The Witches are there, as is Macdonaldwald, Duncan, Banquo, Macduff and others, handled by the third player, and a soundscape propels us forward as the Macbeths strut and fret. We're excited about the prospects! All best with yours!
Mary it’s great to hear from you! That adaptation of Macbeth sounds cool. I directed a production of it with teens at a summer camp and during the rehearsal process I thought, “Maybe it’s time I transition from only working with youth to professional directing.” A year later I was back in graduate school getting my MFA! What inspired you to adapt the play? I’m curious to know what your next steps with it are. Reading about your project is making me wonder about creating a podcast called “What Are You Working On?” It might be interesting to talk to artists who are putting projects together on our own now that there’s a limited path to getting work supported at the institutions that have been ideologically captured. I don’t see the non-profit arts sector changing in the near future-it may be the new regime forces some of us to uncover new paths to producing-which would be an unexpected gift in the end ;)
Exciting times, Kevin. All the best with it. Look forward to reading more
Best luck, Kevin! You might find a few of my essays at Doxie Thoughts of interest: The Decline and Fall of OSF; The 8% Solution: Have We Got the Problem Wrong? and Strike the Ghostlight are three on the topic. I look forward to reading your progress. At the moment I'm working with a partner on a reconsideration of the Scottish play with a dagger-point focus on Him and Her. Without changing a single word we've curated and re-composed the text into something swift and, we hope, powerful. A three-hander, "The Macbeths" asks us to examine the old tropes -- he's a weakling pushed to murderousness by his monstrous wife -- and to ask what happens when love and passion devolve into base appetite; what happens when a stable state is upturned; and what roles do fate and free will play in the mystery we move through, blind to almost everything? The Witches are there, as is Macdonaldwald, Duncan, Banquo, Macduff and others, handled by the third player, and a soundscape propels us forward as the Macbeths strut and fret. We're excited about the prospects! All best with yours!
Mary it’s great to hear from you! That adaptation of Macbeth sounds cool. I directed a production of it with teens at a summer camp and during the rehearsal process I thought, “Maybe it’s time I transition from only working with youth to professional directing.” A year later I was back in graduate school getting my MFA! What inspired you to adapt the play? I’m curious to know what your next steps with it are. Reading about your project is making me wonder about creating a podcast called “What Are You Working On?” It might be interesting to talk to artists who are putting projects together on our own now that there’s a limited path to getting work supported at the institutions that have been ideologically captured. I don’t see the non-profit arts sector changing in the near future-it may be the new regime forces some of us to uncover new paths to producing-which would be an unexpected gift in the end ;)