Libra season short-play workshop (welcome to this Site)

you know when you have a friend that you want to collaborate with, and you talk about it a few times, comment on each other’s Insta posts of cool work and say “Awesome!!” and even email back and forth about projects but nothing comes to fruition for several years? do you also know the feeling when, after those several years have passed, you reach out to your friend again and say “I think I have the project, I think we’re ready this time,” and it works?

Colin and Denali, not onstage but looking good

i just did that! on Sept. 30 dear friend and fellow Bennington person Jeremy Geragotelis and I held a small workshop/rehearsal day at Triskelion Arts of eight small plays-- five of his and three of mine. in attendance were we two playwrights, eight actor/mover friends, and my partner SMB as documentation support. Jeremy directed my plays and i directed his, which meant we didn’t get to watch any of our own work until videos after the fact.

i gotta say, what a gift.

in the first place, the plays of mine that we’re working, the tree plays, are all movement-and-poetry. they’ve been sitting in my head as these things to be HEARD and DANCED, and they made that happen! there’s just no better study of your work for performance than to give it away. seeing it afterward is okay- better even, on occasion.

actors + playwrights squinting in the sun

and secondly, Jeremy’s work! it is a magical tour of subjects and situations. kings and queens and princes everywhere — you can imagine my delight. in a three-hour workshop, i had more questions to pose to actors than solutions to offer them, so it was a side-by-side inquiry, Gemini in Libra season style.

something about this feeling — finally getting a project on some kind of legs after a long time of talking about it-- makes it an apt salutation to a blog. yuck. hello. welcome to the site.

more to come on this project (and hopefully a snappy name for it) soon, definitely.