ALL CYLINDERS CLICKING Every once in a while, Flux Sundays will have a lightening strike day. All the scripts are tight, the actors connect with the roles, and each scene passes some essential undroppable thing to the next. It doesn’t happen often, but boy did it happen on January 11th, and with all of us…
BLACK AND WHITE AND BLUEOur last Flux Sunday of 2008 was the most intimate we’d had in a while, and that combined with Michael’s delicious cookies gave the day a relaxed holiday air. We read a bunch of pages from Rob Ackerman’s Volleygirls and my 60’s play, and three delicious pages from Johnna Adam’s Lickspittles,…
This was the last Flux Sunday before the trilogy began, and again, it was a full three hours, with scenes from Rob Ackerman’s Volley Girls, Johnna Adam’s Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Damn Pernicious Go Betweens, Jeremy Basescu’s The Will, Mary Fengar Gail’s Beggar At The Feast, and my own 60’s play. Over two months later, I…
FRAMESThis last Flux Sunday was the most powerful work we’ve done since our return from our Annual Retreat. We continued through Ten Black Boxes, Volleygirls, and We Are Burning; and also saw the 1st scene of Jeremy Basescu’s brand new play, The Will. The writing and the performances were all at an exciting level, as…
(Photo: Allison Bolah. Pictured: August Schulenburg, Daren Taylor, David Ian Lee, David Douglas Smith, Heather Cohn) SO MANY CONS, SO FEW SUNDAYSOur second Flux Sunday back from Midsummer had the heart of a con man. Cons of the dishonest kind were being played in me tentatively titled new play, Denny and Lila, and of the…
What is The Imagination Compact? And how can learn more about Flux’s Misdummer? Brian Pracht Playwright, The Mechanicals, May 19th History with Flux: Demetrius in Midsummer Night’s Dream, frequent participant in Flux Sundays and Retreat 2007 1. What is your favorite Shakespeare play? OTHELLO 2. What is your favorite line of text? “Gertrude, do not…
ALL THE LITTLE BREAK THROUGHSWhile much of the dialogue in the theatrosphere justly involves revolutionary change, it is often little incremental break throughs that give me the most pleasure. Flux Sunday regularly reveals such break throughs – the right actor, the right director, the right role – and some new unconsidered possibility opens up. The…
How can I learn more about Flux’s Midsummer?And how can I support it? Here are a few delights for your viewing pleasure from our photo shoot for A Midsummer Night’s Dream – more to come! (All photos courtesy of Isaiah Tanenbaum) Nitya Vidyasagar as PuckJake Alexander as Lysander, Amy Fitts as Hermia, Brian Pracht as…
ON BIRDS AND BUNNIESOur Flux workshop on Sunday the 23rd, aka ‘Easter’, was a blissfully smaller turnout of 14 people – about 12 less than our recent average – and I welcomed the intimate crowd. ONEIDA, OR ISAIAH GOES SLEDDINGWe continued through Johnna Adams’ wonderful play about the utopian community in mid-1800’s New York, Oneida,…
On our Flux Sunday March 16th we completed working through Jeremy Basescu’s A Wonderful Wife. This was especially exciting because Jeremy (pictured to the left) was writing the play as we went along – one of the original goals of Flux Sunday was to serve as both spur and immediate gratification to plays in progress….
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