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> 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:
Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with
> pink eyne!
In thy fats our cares be drown'd,
With thy grapes our hairs be
> crown'd:
Cup us, till the world go round,
Cup us, till the world go
> round!
And Plumpy Bacchus could be pantomimed by John
> Falstaff.
--Bob
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> [mailto:
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> Megaw
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You two weren't just drinking from the bottle (or box, as the
> case may be)--you were drinking from the Well. Talk about ratcheting up the
> excitement.
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> [mailto:
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> Jayne
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your
> Consideration
Hi all:
We woke up this morning hung over and wondering what
> 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.
But we did wake up still feeling pretty good about
> 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.
We even - dare we mention this? - let our minds consider what might
> 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.
That may be going way, way too far, but we also recalled that
> 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.
Thanks, Doc, for giving us this opportunity one more time and thank
> heavens for email!
Kathy is on her way back to Austin for a busy week of work
> and I'm leaving town for a week. But we look forward to reading all the
> incoming mail....
Kathy & Jayne
P.S. Jackson: The wine was a nice pinot
> grigio in a box, selected by the wine specialist at Costco
> ________________________________________
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> [
weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Stan Kern
> [
stan@texashealingarts.com]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:33 PM
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I am sitting here in tears of joy as I read through my emails.
> What fun.
Yes, yes, and yes.
stan
Kirsten Kern,PhD, LMTI
Texas Healing Arts
> Institute
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dia.org] On Behalf Of Alice Gordon
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 1:44 PM
To:
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Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your
> Consideration
Jackson, you are reminding me why in 1973 I walked around with
> my jaw chronically dropped at your energy level and wisecrackery. Thanks!
> (Bringing a chin strap this summer.)
Xo
a
> From: Robert Jackson
> <
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> Reply-To: <
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> Date: Fri, 21
> May 2010 14:02:39 -0400
> To: <
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> 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@soton.ac.uk>
> To: <
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> Sent:
> Friday, May 21, 2010 12:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your
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>
>
> 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:
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>
> [
weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert Jackson
>
> [
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> Sent: 21 May 2010 16:32
> To:
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> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your
> Consideration
>
> Me too...uh, was that a Samantha West, Pinot Noir, 2006? -
> just curious.
> Sorry... reading, reading, reading...
>
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> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:19 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] For Your Consideration
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>
> I completely love this
> idea and this way of working. Wish I'd be in
> the backyard with you all.
>
>
> Best,
> Gail
> ________________________________________
> From:
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>
> [
weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Suhler, Jayne
>
> [
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> Sent: 21 May 2010 03:58
> To:
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> 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:
>
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>
> [
weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Maggie Megaw
>
> [
maggie@bizaffairs.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:58 PM
> To:
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> 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-----
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>
> [mailto:
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Jackson
>
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:21 AM
> To:
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>
> 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@UTSouthwestern.edu>
>
> To:
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> Sent: Thursday, May
> 20, 2010 10:48 AM
>
> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from a brain that is
> spendingtoo
muchtime
>
> in the
>
>
>
>
>
>> 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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>> -----Original
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>> From: Matt Kozusko <
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>> To:
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>
>>
>
>> Sent: 5/20/2010 8:20:53 AM
>
>>
> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] thoughts from a brain that is spending too
>
>>
> muchtime in the real world....
>
>>
>
>>
>
>> 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.
>
>>
>
>> Matt
>
>>
>
>>
>
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