Entries by Peggy McKowen

REHEARSAL JOURNAL # 4 TECH

We moved into the theaters this week and today we begin our first Tech Rehearsals for LIDLESS and THE EELWAX JESUS 3-D POP MUSIC SHOW. On Friday we tech INANA, BREADCRUMBS and WHITE PEOPLE. It is an exciting time. I love this part of the process. This is the time when all the elements of […]

REHEARSAL JOURNAL #3

Week three at the Festival…we are in the thick of the creative process. Scenery, costumes and props are being constructed. The Frank Stage has bits and parts of scenery from five different shows scattered across the stage. Sculptures for INANA are being fabricated and carved in the sculpture studio. The costume shop is busy with […]

REHEARSAL JOURNAL #2

We are into our second week of rehearsal. The work is intense and the company is responding to this ambitious season. We are confronting the many unanswerable questions that these five plays raise. I agree with David Mamet when he says that the playwright’s highest calling is to wrestle the unanswerable. Help us see it, […]

REHEARSAL JOURNAL: COMPANY READ-THRU

Theater is the celebration of the idea. Nowhere does the “idea” reign more alive than at the 2010 Contemporary American Theater Festival. Our first day of rehearsal convinced me that this season’s Repertory embraces new ideas, dramatic stories and new works that are bold enough to reflect our present culture back to itself. This Repertory […]