From: "Suhler, Jayne" <jsuhler(a)mail.smu.edu Reply-To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 21:58:23 -0500 To: "weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Conversation: For Your Consideration Subject: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Kathy and I are sitting in my backyard drinking wine. Sound good? It is. We are talking about what we remember most from Winedale: laughter, wonderment, discovery. Here are some of our thoughts, halfway through our first bottle. Picture if you will: A series of scenes from different plays, flowing/melding/morphing directly from one to the next, without break. The people already on stage become part of the next scene and so on. Accessories and props can help in the transformation. (The rubber chicken, as always, will be in Kathy's pants.) Imagine, if you will, Lear and Falstaff on stage together, if only for a moment. Wonderment. In some ways - follow us here - this allows us to consider scenes in a different way. It raises new possibilities, new revelations. As Lear and his Fool finish, a man from the back table rises and sees a dagger. He becomes Macbeth. Or maybe a woman on a bench rises and goes into "What a rogue and peasant slave am I..." She is Hamlet. Someone yells out from the side aisle, and Petruchio enters and all left on stage become servants, including Hamlet. Laughter. This would take some serious thinking to put together scenes that could reasonably follow one another. But we think it's possible. We wanted to throw our idea out here in the spirit of brainstorming and exploration. Discovery. Minimal, simple costumes. Black pants/skirts, white shirts? This would allow everyone to turn around and become someone else immediately, on stage, before the audience. Sometimes people would leave and come back, maybe the stage would be empty for a moment, or one person might be left standing to perform a sonnet or a song. He is joined by Kate and it is Petruchio and Kate, and they are joined by the weird sisters around their cauldron, and that becomes Bohemia, which turns into fairies and so on until finally, at the end, Prospero is left standing. "Our revels now have ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, are all spirits and have melted into air. Into thin air..." Obviously, it doesn't have to be ANY of these scenes we've mentioned. It can be all of those wonderful scenes everyone else has thrown out for consideration. We can have partial scenes, soliloquies, songs. And a little bear baiting and a back trick or two. Again, we're just writing out loud, submitting our thoughts into the conversation. Maybe it sounds like we're talking more process than substance, but we're not. We really believe that we can find connections and discover themes that we never knew before. Unless that's the wine talking. Let us know. Kathy & Jayne ____________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Maggie Megaw [maggie(a)bizaffairs.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:58 PM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an old brain This is fun! and such a change from the usual contents of my in box on an average morning. Given, say, two weeks I¹d love to do two plays, but I think we will mix it up more and have more opportunity to play if we go with a variety of scenes. So here¹s my vote for suites of scenes from a (small) handful of plays. The problem I kept butting up against in trying to find one scene each from a number of different plays organized around‹for instance‹the theme of reunion/ reconciliation is that it seemed heavy on the dessert table, leaving the savory dishes aside. Both for the players and for the audience, that seemed a less satisfying prospect than this does. Lots of endings with no beginnings. Mary and Gail seemed to be heading in this direction a few days ago, and now Bruce and Matt and Jackson have made the point that taking several scenes from 3-4-5 plays would allow for a range of scenes that would make better sense together, add up to more to sink our teeth into, more fun, more texture, more meaning. That and the fact that this structure would allow us to take off from very different starting points‹AYL v. Lear v. Comedy v. Winter¹s Tale v. iHIV (Gail¹s failed reunion idea, which I love) v. Taming v. MSN, for instance‹to arrive at their final but very different expressions of reconciliation (and in some cases magic). I think once we have the plays, the choice of scenes will almost take care of itselfŠ -----Original Message----- From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert Jackson Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:21 AM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an old brain I was looking forward to working on scenes from a number of plays, even it meant two scenes each from, say, ten plays (however, the time works out), i.e. Gail's idea of the storm and the reconciliation, and I, and I thought others, going back to the beginning of the discussion, were hoping to study a wide range of plays, juxtaposing Shakespeare's different approaches to two or three themes. And making each scene as rich as possible; the iceberg where 7/8's of the mass is below. That's a lot of work!! But it's a lot of putting word to the action, action to the word, and much good thinking about both. On the other hand, doing two full plays in a week will mean we spend all our time running lines! Is this Winedale? Or an anxiety dream of regional theater? Perhaps I'm too blunt, and possibly need to take a nap. I'm terrible at this email conference. And keep swearing to keep my mouth shut. I'll say no more. And be a hermit. Mum. -Jackson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Meyer" <Bruce.Meyer(a)UTSouthwestern.edu To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>; <kozusko(a)mac.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from a brain that is spendingtoo muchtime in the > From: Matt Kozusko <kozusko(a)mac.com > To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l

From: "Suhler, Jayne" <jsuhler(a)mail.smu.edu> Reply-To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 21:58:23 -0500 To: "weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Conversation: For Your Consideration Subject: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Kathy and I are sitting in my backyard drinking wine. Sound good? It is. We are talking about what we remember most from Winedale: laughter, wonderment, discovery. Here are some of our thoughts, halfway through our first bottle. Picture if you will: A series of scenes from different plays, flowing/melding/morphing directly from one to the next, without break. The people already on stage become part of the next scene and so on. Accessories and props can help in the transformation. (The rubber chicken, as always, will be in Kathy's pants.) Imagine, if you will, Lear and Falstaff on stage together, if only for a moment. Wonderment. In some ways - follow us here - this allows us to consider scenes in a different way. It raises new possibilities, new revelations. As Lear and his Fool finish, a man from the back table rises and sees a dagger. He becomes Macbeth. Or maybe a woman on a bench rises and goes into "What a rogue and peasant slave am I..." She is Hamlet. Someone yells out from the side aisle, and Petruchio enters and all left on stage become servants, including Hamlet. Laughter. This would take some serious thinking to put together scenes that could reasonably follow one another. But we think it's possible. We wanted to throw our idea out here in the spirit of brainstorming and exploration. Discovery. Minimal, simple costumes. Black pants/skirts, white shirts? This would allow everyone to turn around and become someone else immediately, on stage, before the audience. Sometimes people would leave and come back, maybe the stage would be empty for a moment, or one person might be left standing to perform a sonnet or a song. He is joined by Kate and it is Petruchio and Kate, and they are joined by the weird sisters around their cauldron, and that becomes Bohemia, which turns into fairies and so on until finally, at the end, Prospero is left standing. "Our revels now have ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, are all spirits and have melted into air. Into thin air..." Obviously, it doesn't have to be ANY of these scenes we've mentioned. It can be all of those wonderful scenes everyone else has thrown out for consideration. We can have partial scenes, soliloquies, songs. And a little bear baiting and a back trick or two. Again, we're just writing out loud, submitting our thoughts into the conversation. Maybe it sounds like we're talking more process than substance, but we're not. We really believe that we can find connections and discover themes that we never knew before. Unless that's the wine talking. Let us know. Kathy & Jayne ____________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Maggie Megaw [maggie(a)bizaffairs.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:58 PM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an old brain This is fun! and such a change from the usual contents of my in box on an average morning. Given, say, two weeks I¹d love to do two plays, but I think we will mix it up more and have more opportunity to play if we go with a variety of scenes. So here¹s my vote for suites of scenes from a (small) handful of plays. The problem I kept butting up against in trying to find one scene each from a number of different plays organized around‹for instance‹the theme of reunion/ reconciliation is that it seemed heavy on the dessert table, leaving the savory dishes aside. Both for the players and for the audience, that seemed a less satisfying prospect than this does. Lots of endings with no beginnings. Mary and Gail seemed to be heading in this direction a few days ago, and now Bruce and Matt and Jackson have made the point that taking several scenes from 3-4-5 plays would allow for a range of scenes that would make better sense together, add up to more to sink our teeth into, more fun, more texture, more meaning. That and the fact that this structure would allow us to take off from very different starting points‹AYL v. Lear v. Comedy v. Winter¹s Tale v. iHIV (Gail¹s failed reunion idea, which I love) v. Taming v. MSN, for instance‹to arrive at their final but very different expressions of reconciliation (and in some cases magic). I think once we have the plays, the choice of scenes will almost take care of itselfŠ -----Original Message----- From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert Jackson Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:21 AM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an old brain I was looking forward to working on scenes from a number of plays, even it meant two scenes each from, say, ten plays (however, the time works out), i.e. Gail's idea of the storm and the reconciliation, and I, and I thought others, going back to the beginning of the discussion, were hoping to study a wide range of plays, juxtaposing Shakespeare's different approaches to two or three themes. And making each scene as rich as possible; the iceberg where 7/8's of the mass is below. That's a lot of work!! But it's a lot of putting word to the action, action to the word, and much good thinking about both. On the other hand, doing two full plays in a week will mean we spend all our time running lines! Is this Winedale? Or an anxiety dream of regional theater? Perhaps I'm too blunt, and possibly need to take a nap. I'm terrible at this email conference. And keep swearing to keep my mouth shut. I'll say no more. And be a hermit. Mum. -Jackson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Meyer" <Bruce.Meyer(a)UTSouthwestern.edu> To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>; <kozusko(a)mac.com> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from a brain that is spendingtoo muchtime in the _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l

Actually, i AM serious about the two play suggestion - massive

undertaking, so just the kind of impossible task that we are best suited

for....

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Dear All,

A grinning and excited second for Bruce's suggestion that we consider

longer chunks of fewer plays so that we can get some of the playlong

arcs into our storytelling. And two full plays is a great idea, I

think, if you're serious.

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From: Robert Jackson <rjax(a)netcom.com> Reply-To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 14:02:39 -0400 To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Here's my vote: We take Matt's "narrative arc" construction of Gail's "storm/reconciliation" concept, using Jayne Suhler's technique of "flowing/melding/morphing scenes directly from one to the next, without break" (e.g. Macbeth/Banquo become Hamlet/Horatio and weird sisters/ grave-diggers), while the rehearsal process would include improvizing with Gail's "Cheek by Jowl" ideas. The overall "narrative program" - for lack of a better pharase - will create its own meaning - or not - but-- (--Jeez, I just got the feeling we are going back to an original Winedale, cir.1971 - hopefully doing it better- before we did our first full length play performance "The Tempest" in what? '73?.) In one of his frist emails, Mr. Pees had a great set of scenes already catagorized . . . Do we necessarily start with Prospero and end with Prospero? . . . I mean for this "program". Thank goodness we have "Doc and The 6 Gals" (great name for a band) to put all those ingrediants in that receipe, with the time restraints, etc..... And, of course, add lots of 'bawdy fun" for Terry and me, who'll be sitting in the backyard drinking . . . wine.. . . Or, alternatively, we just do a production of Love's Labor's Lost. Whatever. Now, if we just had an old barn or something.... (nap time) ----- Original Message ----- From: "McDonald G." <G.McDonald(a)soton.ac.uk> To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Dear Everybody, Continuing in this vein of simplicity, I was lucky to see the company Cheek by Jowl in March and wrote to Mary then about this way of working I loved: I saw last night the Cheek by Jowl company's new production of Macbeth. The two women wore long back skirts over leotards, the men black cargo pants and t-shirts. The set was wooden boxes of various heights. It was all so simple and you therefore heard every word. Everything, from death to sword play was mimed, with minimal sound effects (often made the actors) who stood by watching in various configurations. I was high as a kite afterwards and couldn't fall asleep til nearly 3 a.m. It just got my juices flowing. OMG, I thought, we could do this: we can be simple and not worry about fancy costumes and just be massively creative and smart. I was over the moon. We are so going to have fun. Two months later, the backyard, wine-drinking women reminded me of that night! Best, Gail ________________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert Jackson [rjax(a)netcom.com] Sent: 21 May 2010 16:32 To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Me too...uh, was that a Samantha West, Pinot Noir, 2006? - just curious. Sorry... reading, reading, reading... ----- Original Message ----- From: "McDonald G." <G.McDonald(a)soton.ac.uk> To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration I completely love this idea and this way of working. Wish I'd be in the backyard with you all. Best, Gail ________________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Suhler, Jayne [jsuhler(a)mail.smu.edu] Sent: 21 May 2010 03:58 To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Kathy and I are sitting in my backyard drinking wine. Sound good? It is. We are talking about what we remember most from Winedale: laughter, wonderment, discovery. Here are some of our thoughts, halfway through our first bottle. Picture if you will: A series of scenes from different plays, flowing/melding/morphing directly from one to the next, without break. The people already on stage become part of the next scene and so on. Accessories and props can help in the transformation. (The rubber chicken, as always, will be in Kathy's pants.) Imagine, if you will, Lear and Falstaff on stage together, if only for a moment. Wonderment. In some ways - follow us here - this allows us to consider scenes in a different way. It raises new possibilities, new revelations. As Lear and his Fool finish, a man from the back table rises and sees a dagger. He becomes Macbeth. Or maybe a woman on a bench rises and goes into "What a rogue and peasant slave am I..." She is Hamlet. Someone yells out from the side aisle, and Petruchio enters and all left on stage become servants, including Hamlet. Laughter. This would take some serious thinking to put together scenes that could reasonably follow one another. But we think it's possible. We wanted to throw our idea out here in the spirit of brainstorming and exploration. Discovery. Minimal, simple costumes. Black pants/skirts, white shirts? This would allow everyone to turn around and become someone else immediately, on stage, before the audience. Sometimes people would leave and come back, maybe the stage would be empty for a moment, or one person might be left standing to perform a sonnet or a song. He is joined by Kate and it is Petruchio and Kate, and they are joined by the weird sisters around their cauldron, and that becomes Bohemia, which turns into fairies and so on until finally, at the end, Prospero is left standing. "Our revels now have ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, are all spirits and have melted into air. Into thin air..." Obviously, it doesn't have to be ANY of these scenes we've mentioned. It can be all of those wonderful scenes everyone else has thrown out for consideration. We can have partial scenes, soliloquies, songs. And a little bear baiting and a back trick or two. Again, we're just writing out loud, submitting our thoughts into the conversation. Maybe it sounds like we're talking more process than substance, but we're not. We really believe that we can find connections and discover themes that we never knew before. Unless that's the wine talking. Let us know. Kathy & Jayne ____________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Maggie Megaw [maggie(a)bizaffairs.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:58 PM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an old brain This is fun! and such a change from the usual contents of my in box on an average morning. Given, say, two weeks I¹d love to do two plays, but I think we will mix it up more and have more opportunity to play if we go with a variety of scenes. So here¹s my vote for suites of scenes from a (small) handful of plays. The problem I kept butting up against in trying to find one scene each from a number of different plays organized around‹for instance‹the theme of reunion/ reconciliation is that it seemed heavy on the dessert table, leaving the savory dishes aside. Both for the players and for the audience, that seemed a less satisfying prospect than this does. Lots of endings with no beginnings. Mary and Gail seemed to be heading in this direction a few days ago, and now Bruce and Matt and Jackson have made the point that taking several scenes from 3-4-5 plays would allow for a range of scenes that would make better sense together, add up to more to sink our teeth into, more fun, more texture, more meaning. That and the fact that this structure would allow us to take off from very different starting points‹AYL v. Lear v. Comedy v. Winter¹s Tale v. iHIV (Gail¹s failed reunion idea, which I love) v. Taming v. MSN, for instance‹to arrive at their final but very different expressions of reconciliation (and in some cases magic). I think once we have the plays, the choice of scenes will almost take care of itselfŠ -----Original Message----- From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert Jackson Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:21 AM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an old brain I was looking forward to working on scenes from a number of plays, even it meant two scenes each from, say, ten plays (however, the time works out), i.e. Gail's idea of the storm and the reconciliation, and I, and I thought others, going back to the beginning of the discussion, were hoping to study a wide range of plays, juxtaposing Shakespeare's different approaches to two or three themes. And making each scene as rich as possible; the iceberg where 7/8's of the mass is below. That's a lot of work!! But it's a lot of putting word to the action, action to the word, and much good thinking about both. On the other hand, doing two full plays in a week will mean we spend all our time running lines! Is this Winedale? Or an anxiety dream of regional theater? Perhaps I'm too blunt, and possibly need to take a nap. I'm terrible at this email conference. And keep swearing to keep my mouth shut. I'll say no more. And be a hermit. Mum. -Jackson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Meyer" <Bruce.Meyer(a)UTSouthwestern.edu> To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>; <kozusko(a)mac.com> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from a brain that is spendingtoo muchtime in the _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l

From: Robert Jackson <rjax(a)netcom.com> Reply-To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 14:02:39 -0400 To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Here's my vote: We take Matt's "narrative arc" construction of Gail's

concept, using Jayne Suhler's technique of "flowing/melding/morphing

directly from one to the next, without break" (e.g. Macbeth/Banquo become Hamlet/Horatio and weird sisters/ grave-diggers), while the rehearsal process would include improvizing with Gail's "Cheek by Jowl" ideas.

overall "narrative program" - for lack of a better pharase - will create

own meaning - or not - but-- (--Jeez, I just got the feeling we are going back to an original Winedale, cir.1971 - hopefully doing it better- before we did our first full length play performance "The Tempest" in what? '73?.) In one of his frist emails, Mr. Pees had a great set of scenes already catagorized . . . Do we necessarily start with Prospero and end with Prospero? . . . I mean for this "program". Thank goodness we have "Doc and The 6 Gals" (great name for a band) to put all those ingrediants in that receipe, with the time restraints, etc..... And, of course, add lots of 'bawdy fun" for Terry and me, who'll be

in the backyard drinking . . . wine.. . . Or, alternatively, we just do a production of Love's Labor's Lost. Whatever. Now, if we just had an old barn or something.... (nap time) ----- Original Message ----- From: "McDonald G." <G.McDonald(a)soton.ac.uk> To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Dear Everybody, Continuing in this vein of simplicity, I was lucky to see the company

by Jowl in March and wrote to Mary then about this way of working I loved: I saw last night the Cheek by Jowl company's new production of Macbeth.

two women wore long back skirts over leotards, the men black cargo pants

t-shirts. The set was wooden boxes of various heights. It was all so simple and you therefore heard every word. Everything, from death to

play was mimed, with minimal sound effects (often made the actors) who

by watching in various configurations. I was high as a kite afterwards

couldn't fall asleep til nearly 3 a.m. It just got my juices flowing. OMG, I thought, we could do this: we can be simple and not worry about fancy costumes and just be massively creative and smart. I was over the moon. We are so going to have fun. Two months later, the backyard, wine-drinking women reminded me of that night! Best, Gail ________________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert Jackson [rjax(a)netcom.com] Sent: 21 May 2010 16:32 To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Me too...uh, was that a Samantha West, Pinot Noir, 2006? - just curious. Sorry... reading, reading, reading... ----- Original Message ----- From: "McDonald G." <G.McDonald(a)soton.ac.uk> To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration I completely love this idea and this way of working. Wish I'd be in the backyard with you all. Best, Gail ________________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Suhler, Jayne [jsuhler(a)mail.smu.edu] Sent: 21 May 2010 03:58 To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Kathy and I are sitting in my backyard drinking wine. Sound good? It is.

are talking about what we remember most from Winedale: laughter,

discovery. Here are some of our thoughts, halfway through our first

Picture if you will: A series of scenes from different plays, flowing/melding/morphing directly from one to the next, without break. The people already on stage become part of the next scene and so on.

and props can help in the transformation. (The rubber chicken, as always, will be in Kathy's pants.) Imagine, if you will, Lear and Falstaff on stage together, if only for a moment. Wonderment. In some ways - follow us here - this allows us to consider scenes in a different way. It raises new possibilities, new revelations. As Lear and

Fool finish, a man from the back table rises and sees a dagger. He becomes Macbeth. Or maybe a woman on a bench rises and goes into "What a rogue and peasant slave am I..." She is Hamlet. Someone yells out from the side aisle, and Petruchio enters and all left

stage become servants, including Hamlet. Laughter. This would take some serious thinking to put together scenes that could reasonably follow one another. But we think it's possible. We wanted to throw our idea out here in the spirit of brainstorming and exploration. Discovery. Minimal, simple costumes. Black pants/skirts, white shirts? This would

everyone to turn around and become someone else immediately, on stage, before the audience. Sometimes people would leave and come back, maybe the stage would be empty for a moment, or one person might be left standing to perform a sonnet or a song. He is joined by Kate and it is Petruchio and Kate, and they are joined by the weird sisters around their cauldron, and that becomes Bohemia, which turns into fairies and so on until finally, at the end, Prospero is left standing. "Our revels now have ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, are all spirits and have melted into air. Into thin air..." Obviously, it doesn't have to be ANY of these scenes we've mentioned. It

be all of those wonderful scenes everyone else has thrown out for consideration. We can have partial scenes, soliloquies, songs. And a

bear baiting and a back trick or two. Again, we're just writing out loud, submitting our thoughts into the conversation. Maybe it sounds like we're talking more process than substance, but we're not. We really believe that we can find connections

discover themes that we never knew before. Unless that's the wine talking. Let us know. Kathy & Jayne ____________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Maggie Megaw [maggie(a)bizaffairs.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:58 PM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an old brain This is fun! and such a change from the usual contents of my in box on an average morning. Given, say, two weeks I¹d love to do two plays, but I think we will mix it up more and have more opportunity to play if we go

a variety of scenes. So here¹s my vote for suites of scenes from a

handful of plays. The problem I kept butting up against in trying to find one scene each from a number of different plays organized around‹for instance‹the theme of reunion/ reconciliation is that it seemed heavy on

dessert table, leaving the savory dishes aside. Both for the players and for the audience, that seemed a less satisfying prospect than this does. Lots of endings with no beginnings. Mary and Gail seemed to be heading in this direction a few days ago, and now Bruce and Matt and Jackson have

the point that taking several scenes from 3-4-5 plays would allow for a range of scenes that would make better sense together, add up to more to sink our teeth into, more fun, more texture, more meaning. That and the fact that this structure would allow us to take off from very different starting points‹AYL v. Lear v. Comedy v. Winter¹s Tale v. iHIV (Gail¹s failed reunion idea, which I love) v. Taming v. MSN, for instance‹to

at their final but very different expressions of reconciliation (and in

cases magic). I think once we have the plays, the choice of scenes will almost take care of itselfŠ -----Original Message----- From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert

Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:21 AM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an old brain I was looking forward to working on scenes from a number of plays, even it meant two scenes each from, say, ten plays (however, the time works out), i.e. Gail's idea of the storm and the reconciliation, and I, and I thought others, going back to the beginning of the discussion, were hoping to

a wide range of plays, juxtaposing Shakespeare's different approaches to

or three themes. And making each scene as rich as possible; the iceberg where 7/8's of the mass is below. That's a lot of work!! But it's a lot

putting word to the action, action to the word, and much good thinking

both. On the other hand, doing two full plays in a week will mean we spend all

time running lines! Is this Winedale? Or an anxiety dream of regional theater? Perhaps I'm too blunt, and possibly need to take a nap. I'm terrible at this email conference. And keep swearing to keep my mouth

I'll say no more. And be a hermit. Mum. -Jackson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Meyer" <Bruce.Meyer(a)UTSouthwestern.edu> To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>; <kozusko(a)mac.com> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from a brain that is spendingtoo

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From: Robert Jackson <rjax(a)netcom.com> Reply-To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 14:02:39 -0400 To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Here's my vote: We take Matt's "narrative arc" construction of Gail's

concept, using Jayne Suhler's technique of "flowing/melding/morphing

directly from one to the next, without break" (e.g. Macbeth/Banquo become Hamlet/Horatio and weird sisters/ grave-diggers), while the rehearsal process would include improvizing with Gail's "Cheek by Jowl" ideas.

overall "narrative program" - for lack of a better pharase - will create

own meaning - or not - but-- (--Jeez, I just got the feeling we are going back to an original Winedale, cir.1971 - hopefully doing it better- before we did our first full length play performance "The Tempest" in what? '73?.) In one of his frist emails, Mr. Pees had a great set of scenes already catagorized . . . Do we necessarily start with Prospero and end with Prospero? . . . I mean for this "program". Thank goodness we have "Doc and The 6 Gals" (great name for a band) to put all those ingrediants in that receipe, with the time restraints, etc..... And, of course, add lots of 'bawdy fun" for Terry and me, who'll be

in the backyard drinking . . . wine.. . . Or, alternatively, we just do a production of Love's Labor's Lost. Whatever. Now, if we just had an old barn or something.... (nap time) ----- Original Message ----- From: "McDonald G." <G.McDonald(a)soton.ac.uk> To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Dear Everybody, Continuing in this vein of simplicity, I was lucky to see the company

by Jowl in March and wrote to Mary then about this way of working I loved: I saw last night the Cheek by Jowl company's new production of Macbeth.

two women wore long back skirts over leotards, the men black cargo pants

t-shirts. The set was wooden boxes of various heights. It was all so simple and you therefore heard every word. Everything, from death to

play was mimed, with minimal sound effects (often made the actors) who

by watching in various configurations. I was high as a kite afterwards

couldn't fall asleep til nearly 3 a.m. It just got my juices flowing. OMG, I thought, we could do this: we can be simple and not worry about fancy costumes and just be massively creative and smart. I was over the moon. We are so going to have fun. Two months later, the backyard, wine-drinking women reminded me of that night! Best, Gail ________________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert Jackson [rjax(a)netcom.com] Sent: 21 May 2010 16:32 To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Me too...uh, was that a Samantha West, Pinot Noir, 2006? - just curious. Sorry... reading, reading, reading... ----- Original Message ----- From: "McDonald G." <G.McDonald(a)soton.ac.uk> To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration I completely love this idea and this way of working. Wish I'd be in the backyard with you all. Best, Gail ________________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Suhler, Jayne [jsuhler(a)mail.smu.edu] Sent: 21 May 2010 03:58 To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Kathy and I are sitting in my backyard drinking wine. Sound good? It is.

are talking about what we remember most from Winedale: laughter,

discovery. Here are some of our thoughts, halfway through our first

Picture if you will: A series of scenes from different plays, flowing/melding/morphing directly from one to the next, without break. The people already on stage become part of the next scene and so on.

and props can help in the transformation. (The rubber chicken, as always, will be in Kathy's pants.) Imagine, if you will, Lear and Falstaff on stage together, if only for a moment. Wonderment. In some ways - follow us here - this allows us to consider scenes in a different way. It raises new possibilities, new revelations. As Lear and

Fool finish, a man from the back table rises and sees a dagger. He becomes Macbeth. Or maybe a woman on a bench rises and goes into "What a rogue and peasant slave am I..." She is Hamlet. Someone yells out from the side aisle, and Petruchio enters and all left

stage become servants, including Hamlet. Laughter. This would take some serious thinking to put together scenes that could reasonably follow one another. But we think it's possible. We wanted to throw our idea out here in the spirit of brainstorming and exploration. Discovery. Minimal, simple costumes. Black pants/skirts, white shirts? This would

everyone to turn around and become someone else immediately, on stage, before the audience. Sometimes people would leave and come back, maybe the stage would be empty for a moment, or one person might be left standing to perform a sonnet or a song. He is joined by Kate and it is Petruchio and Kate, and they are joined by the weird sisters around their cauldron, and that becomes Bohemia, which turns into fairies and so on until finally, at the end, Prospero is left standing. "Our revels now have ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, are all spirits and have melted into air. Into thin air..." Obviously, it doesn't have to be ANY of these scenes we've mentioned. It

be all of those wonderful scenes everyone else has thrown out for consideration. We can have partial scenes, soliloquies, songs. And a

bear baiting and a back trick or two. Again, we're just writing out loud, submitting our thoughts into the conversation. Maybe it sounds like we're talking more process than substance, but we're not. We really believe that we can find connections

discover themes that we never knew before. Unless that's the wine talking. Let us know. Kathy & Jayne ____________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Maggie Megaw [maggie(a)bizaffairs.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:58 PM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an old brain This is fun! and such a change from the usual contents of my in box on an average morning. Given, say, two weeks I¹d love to do two plays, but I think we will mix it up more and have more opportunity to play if we go

a variety of scenes. So here¹s my vote for suites of scenes from a

handful of plays. The problem I kept butting up against in trying to find one scene each from a number of different plays organized around‹for instance‹the theme of reunion/ reconciliation is that it seemed heavy on

dessert table, leaving the savory dishes aside. Both for the players and for the audience, that seemed a less satisfying prospect than this does. Lots of endings with no beginnings. Mary and Gail seemed to be heading in this direction a few days ago, and now Bruce and Matt and Jackson have

the point that taking several scenes from 3-4-5 plays would allow for a range of scenes that would make better sense together, add up to more to sink our teeth into, more fun, more texture, more meaning. That and the fact that this structure would allow us to take off from very different starting points‹AYL v. Lear v. Comedy v. Winter¹s Tale v. iHIV (Gail¹s failed reunion idea, which I love) v. Taming v. MSN, for instance‹to

at their final but very different expressions of reconciliation (and in

cases magic). I think once we have the plays, the choice of scenes will almost take care of itselfŠ -----Original Message----- From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert

Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:21 AM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an old brain I was looking forward to working on scenes from a number of plays, even it meant two scenes each from, say, ten plays (however, the time works out), i.e. Gail's idea of the storm and the reconciliation, and I, and I thought others, going back to the beginning of the discussion, were hoping to

a wide range of plays, juxtaposing Shakespeare's different approaches to

or three themes. And making each scene as rich as possible; the iceberg where 7/8's of the mass is below. That's a lot of work!! But it's a lot

putting word to the action, action to the word, and much good thinking

both. On the other hand, doing two full plays in a week will mean we spend all

time running lines! Is this Winedale? Or an anxiety dream of regional theater? Perhaps I'm too blunt, and possibly need to take a nap. I'm terrible at this email conference. And keep swearing to keep my mouth

I'll say no more. And be a hermit. Mum. -Jackson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Meyer" <Bruce.Meyer(a)UTSouthwestern.edu> To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>; <kozusko(a)mac.com> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from a brain that is spendingtoo

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Hi, all, this is heady indeed. Yay and praise the stars and the skies generally. Meanwhile, I am in a factory of my own making compiling the list of all the scenes suggested for the Big Decision coming up. A favor to ask: Those of you who sent such suggestions as "R&J nurse scenes" or "2 Gents,Pirates," if you could provide acts and scene numbers it would save my fingers from a lot of flipping through big thin Riverside Shakespeare pages for the exact locations within the plays. I'll start: Rather than, Pericles, jousting scene, I meant Pericles, Act II, scene ii. (But ooo, also II,iii....) Most gratefully, Alice tablecloths ("A Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with In thy fats our cares be drown'd, With thy grapes our hairs be Cup us, till the world go round, Cup us, till the world go And Plumpy Bacchus could be pantomimed by John --Bob -----Original Message----- From: Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 5:24 PM To: Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your You two weren't just drinking from the bottle (or box, as the the -----Original Message----- From: Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:01 PM To: Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Hi all: We woke up this morning hung over and wondering what hardly may But we did wake up still feeling pretty good about some more keep our We even - dare we mention this? - let our minds consider what might things hours in That may be going way, way too far, but we also recalled that pulled Thanks, Doc, for giving us this opportunity one more time and thank Kathy is on her way back to Austin for a busy week of work Kathy & Jayne P.S. Jackson: The wine was a nice pinot From: Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:33 PM To: Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your I am sitting here in tears of joy as I read through my emails. Yes, yes, and yes. stan Kirsten Kern,PhD, LMTI Texas Healing Arts School of Massage, Day Spa and Clinic 7001 Burnet Road Austin, TX stan(a)texashealingarts.com 512 323 6042 -----Original Message----- From: [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikime Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 1:44 PM To: Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Jackson, you are reminding me why in 1973 I walked around with Xo a "storm/reconciliation" scenes The its sitting > in the backyard drinking . . . wine.. . > . > > Or, alternatively, we just do a production of Love's Labor's Lost. > > Whatever. > > Now, if we just had an old barn or something.... > > (nap > time) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "McDonald G." > <G.McDonald(a)soton.ac.uk> > To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: > Friday, May 21, 2010 12:24 PM > Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your > > > Dear Everybody, > > Continuing in this vein of simplicity, > I was lucky to see the company Cheek The and sword stood and > couldn't fall asleep > til nearly 3 a.m. It just got my juices flowing. > OMG, I thought, we could > do this: we can be simple and not worry about > fancy costumes and just be > massively creative and smart. I was over the > moon. We are so going to > have fun. > > Two months later, the backyard, wine-drinking women reminded me > of > that night! > > Best, > Gail > > From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert Jackson > > [rjax(a)netcom.com] > Sent: 21 May 2010 16:32 > To: > Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your > > Me too...uh, was that a Samantha West, Pinot Noir, 2006? - > just curious. > Sorry... reading, reading, reading... > > ----- Original > Message ----- > From: "McDonald G." <G.McDonald(a)soton.ac.uk> > To: > <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:19 AM > > Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration > > > I completely love this > idea and this way of working. Wish I'd be in > the backyard with you all. > > > Best, > Gail > From: > > [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Suhler, Jayne > > [jsuhler(a)mail.smu.edu] > Sent: 21 May 2010 03:58 > To: > Subject: [Weeklong-l] For Your > > Kathy and I are sitting in my backyard drinking wine. Sound > good? It is. We wonderment, bottle. Accessories his on allow can little and > discover themes that we never knew before. Unless that's the > wine talking. > Let us know. > > Kathy & Jayne > > > ____________________________________ > From: > > [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Maggie Megaw > > [maggie(a)bizaffairs.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:58 PM > To: > Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an > old brain > > This is fun! and such a change from the usual contents of my in > box on > an average morning. Given, say, two weeks I¹d love to do two > plays, > but I think we will mix it up more and have more opportunity to > play > if we go with (small) the made arrive some Jackson study two of about our shut. muchtime ___________________ Weeklong-l mailing Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l > mailing Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l > mailing Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l > mailing Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin ____________________________________ IRS Circular 230 Notice opinion, of upon avoiding contained in The information contained in this e-mail error, _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l

From: "Pees, Robert" <rpees(a)AkinGump.com> Reply-To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 17:33:51 -0400 To: "weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Conversation: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration I too am just loving this email conversation. Imagine that a few tablecloths from the pub are quickly turned into togas, and then the raucous drinking scene from Antony and Cleopatra begins with all of its boisterous toasts ("A health to Lepidus!), its silly crocodile jokes, the dance of the Egyptian Bacchanals, and a song:

pink eyne!

crown'd:

round!

Falstaff.

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case may be)--you were drinking from the Well. Talk about ratcheting up the excitement.

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the heck we had written. No, just kidding. Are you kidding? We could hardly make it past 10:30 before calling it a night. I'm afraid our all-nighters may (I said may) be behind us.

the "scene morphing" idea. So we were truly excited and happy to see that some of you think it worthy of discussion! Alice, tossing the king a crown to transform a scene, yes. Terry, sharing the stage and making this even more collaborative than ever, yes. One thing that we thought this might do is keep us from having to spend a lot of our time split into small groups during our week.

happen if we made the stage a tavern. A pub. A public place, where all things can happen. Wrestling matches happen in pubs, Merry Wives have happy hours in pubs, wives call out their husbands in pubs, people sit by themselves and brood in pubs, Romeos meet Juliets in pubs. Songs are sung and dances are danced in pubs.

this sort of discussion is exactly how we always spent the first weeks at Winedale every summer. Letting our imaginations run wild. Maybe we then pulled back, but always, always we took something important from those creative sessions.

heavens for email!

and I'm leaving town for a week. But we look forward to reading all the incoming mail....

grigio in a box, selected by the wine specialist at Costco

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What fun.

Institute

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my jaw chronically dropped at your energy level and wisecrackery. Thanks! (Bringing a chin strap this summer.)

From: Robert Jackson <rjax(a)netcom.com> Reply-To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 14:02:39 -0400 To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration Here's my vote: We take Matt's "narrative arc" construction of Gail's

concept, using Jayne Suhler's technique of "flowing/melding/morphing

directly from one to the next, without break" (e.g. Macbeth/Banquo become Hamlet/Horatio and weird sisters/ grave-diggers), while the rehearsal process would include improvizing with Gail's "Cheek by Jowl" ideas.

overall "narrative program" - for lack of a better pharase - will create

own meaning - or not - but-- (--Jeez, I just got the feeling we are going back to an original Winedale, cir.1971 - hopefully doing it better- before we did our first full length play performance "The Tempest" in what? '73?.) In one of his frist emails, Mr. Pees had a great set of scenes already catagorized . . . Do we necessarily start with Prospero and end with Prospero? . . . I mean for this "program". Thank goodness we have "Doc and The 6 Gals" (great name for a band) to put all those ingrediants in that receipe, with the time restraints, etc..... And, of course, add lots of 'bawdy fun" for Terry and me, who'll be

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by Jowl in March and wrote to Mary then about this way of working I loved: I saw last night the Cheek by Jowl company's new production of Macbeth.

two women wore long back skirts over leotards, the men black cargo pants

t-shirts. The set was wooden boxes of various heights. It was all so simple and you therefore heard every word. Everything, from death to

play was mimed, with minimal sound effects (often made the actors) who

by watching in various configurations. I was high as a kite afterwards

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are talking about what we remember most from Winedale: laughter,

discovery. Here are some of our thoughts, halfway through our first

Picture if you will: A series of scenes from different plays, flowing/melding/morphing directly from one to the next, without break. The people already on stage become part of the next scene and so on.

and props can help in the transformation. (The rubber chicken, as always, will be in Kathy's pants.) Imagine, if you will, Lear and Falstaff on stage together, if only for a moment. Wonderment. In some ways - follow us here - this allows us to consider scenes in a different way. It raises new possibilities, new revelations. As Lear and

Fool finish, a man from the back table rises and sees a dagger. He becomes Macbeth. Or maybe a woman on a bench rises and goes into "What a rogue and peasant slave am I..." She is Hamlet. Someone yells out from the side aisle, and Petruchio enters and all left

stage become servants, including Hamlet. Laughter. This would take some serious thinking to put together scenes that could reasonably follow one another. But we think it's possible. We wanted to throw our idea out here in the spirit of brainstorming and exploration. Discovery. Minimal, simple costumes. Black pants/skirts, white shirts? This would

everyone to turn around and become someone else immediately, on stage, before the audience. Sometimes people would leave and come back, maybe the stage would be empty for a moment, or one person might be left standing to perform a sonnet or a song. He is joined by Kate and it is Petruchio and Kate, and they are joined by the weird sisters around their cauldron, and that becomes Bohemia, which turns into fairies and so on until finally, at the end, Prospero is left standing. "Our revels now have ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, are all spirits and have melted into air. Into thin air..." Obviously, it doesn't have to be ANY of these scenes we've mentioned. It

be all of those wonderful scenes everyone else has thrown out for consideration. We can have partial scenes, soliloquies, songs. And a

bear baiting and a back trick or two. Again, we're just writing out loud, submitting our thoughts into the conversation. Maybe it sounds like we're talking more process than substance, but we're not. We really believe that we can find connections

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a variety of scenes. So here¹s my vote for suites of scenes from a

handful of plays. The problem I kept butting up against in trying to find one scene each from a number of different plays organized around‹for instance‹the theme of reunion/ reconciliation is that it seemed heavy on

dessert table, leaving the savory dishes aside. Both for the players and for the audience, that seemed a less satisfying prospect than this does. Lots of endings with no beginnings. Mary and Gail seemed to be heading in this direction a few days ago, and now Bruce and Matt and Jackson have

the point that taking several scenes from 3-4-5 plays would allow for a range of scenes that would make better sense together, add up to more to sink our teeth into, more fun, more texture, more meaning. That and the fact that this structure would allow us to take off from very different starting points‹AYL v. Lear v. Comedy v. Winter¹s Tale v. iHIV (Gail¹s failed reunion idea, which I love) v. Taming v. MSN, for instance‹to

at their final but very different expressions of reconciliation (and in

cases magic). I think once we have the plays, the choice of scenes will almost take care of itselfŠ -----Original Message----- From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert

Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:21 AM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from an old brain I was looking forward to working on scenes from a number of plays, even it meant two scenes each from, say, ten plays (however, the time works out), i.e. Gail's idea of the storm and the reconciliation, and I, and I thought others, going back to the beginning of the discussion, were hoping to

a wide range of plays, juxtaposing Shakespeare's different approaches to

or three themes. And making each scene as rich as possible; the iceberg where 7/8's of the mass is below. That's a lot of work!! But it's a lot

putting word to the action, action to the word, and much good thinking

both. On the other hand, doing two full plays in a week will mean we spend all

time running lines! Is this Winedale? Or an anxiety dream of regional theater? Perhaps I'm too blunt, and possibly need to take a nap. I'm terrible at this email conference. And keep swearing to keep my mouth

I'll say no more. And be a hermit. Mum. -Jackson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Meyer" <Bruce.Meyer(a)UTSouthwestern.edu> To: <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>; <kozusko(a)mac.com> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from a brain that is spendingtoo

in the two play suggestion - massive task that we are best Message----- > From: Matt Kozusko <kozusko(a)mac.com <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from a brain that is spending too muchtime in the real world.... and excited second for Bruce's suggestion that we consider of fewer plays so that we can get some of the playlong storytelling. And two full plays is a great idea, I serious. _______________________________________________ list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l

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