Here are posts about works in progress, the process of making art focused on voice and words, and anything else that takes our interest.
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Solo Performance/Technical Thought
So, in trying to motivate to work on a performance for a mystery story, I run into technical questions about how to deal with 2 person (or more scenes). I run into this with the Christmas Carol I perform, but that’s easier, I think, because that is so obviously a story narrated by Dickens. What… Read more
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Things Are Percolating
Nothing new to announce yet, but programming for Fall 2025 is starting to take shape, with a very interesting collaboration formulating. Something that’s come up as I talk to people about RLA is how excited people are to be making things, and giving themselves the permission to make things. It’s a wonderful energy to be… Read more
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An. Amazing. Thing
An amazing thing that has come out of starting RLA is hearing from new and interesting people. And in an odd way, in RLA being so personally mine, it’s allowing me to listen a whole lot better to other people and their path. I think the difference is when I was producing, the need to… Read more
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Some Projects in mind
Hi all, Some upcoming projects that are in the works or will soon be in production: Agatha Christie’s The Man in the Brown Suit – this one we tried to do at the Towne House failed so spectacularly it still hurts. Lesson: do not do a piece that relies on the spoken work in a… Read more
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So Many Choices!
One of the things that I am finding challenging in this project is now that I don’t have to make product all the time, I have to choose what I want to spend focused time on. The question of where my child gets their ADHD from is being answered. I’m getting excited now about a… Read more
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Sounds
What I’m most excited about in this RLA project is being able to think more creatively—I’m just so excited to have to tell stories/experiments in new ways that excite me, and then I can share. I’ve been geeking out on YouTube videos on sound production (this guy is great), but I’ve also been following BBC… Read more
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Working on (Self) Adaptation
I’ve been working on adapting the Agatha Christie Murder of Roger Ackroyd for a while now. Honestly, the reason it’s “a while” and not “finished” is that I appreciate it as a technical exercise, but now that I’m in a world where I don’t have to produce something, I get/have/am forced to be a little… Read more
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Welcome!
This is a first post just to lay out what I am trying to do here and why. Suffice it to say, this is a place of the spoken word, of language, of sound. Its a place where we all can be whimsical, sincere, and serious (but I hope never solemn.) In this experiment of… Read more