WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT?
What the heck is this Our Country’s Good project all about?
Well, the pandemic afforded everyone some time to reflect and - in the season of contemplation - one of my creative dreams rose to the forefront. A hallmark of Seat of the Pants’ work is that we engage in longer rehearsal processes, allowing actors and designers to live with a play for a bit more than is traditional, in the hopes of telling a more authentic, lived-in, fully realized tale. I wondered: “What if - instead of planning and executing a traditional four show season - we picked one play and worked on it for a whole year, having an opportunity to experiment, play, learn new technique as we go along, and more fully integrate designers into the rehearsal process?” My intriguing proposal seemed to resonate with several artists who were thinking about doing theatre in a new way - and so the Our Country’s Good project was born.
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EVOLUTION OF POSTER ART: PART I
The pandemic has postponed or cancelled many plans, wreaking havoc on regular schedules and making it nearly impossible to figure out your calendar in advance with any sort of guarantee that six months from now you’ll still be able to do the thing you were hoping to do. People joke about time having no meaning anymore. But meanwhile there seems to be a growing recognition of how precious our time actually is, and a movement to take back some of it for ourselves. Along with this has been a trend towards digging deep into what is most important in our lives, and an urge to simplify.
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A REHEARSAL STORY: JAMES ALEXANDER RANKIN
A fantastic rehearsal story from James Alexander Rankin:
“The majority of my theater experience has been on the stage; I haven’t had a massive amount of formal training. As a result, sometimes it takes me years to drink in a concept. That is usually paired with me observing actors around me, trying to understand their process and how they do things, or it can be me talking with directors and reading books on theory ad nauseam. Even after all that work it still takes an epiphany during a practical experience for me get an inkling of understanding.
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