In honor of our RAISIN CYCLE plays and the conversation they knit around the palimpsest of RAISIN IN THE SUN, check out this marvelous instance of textual “riffing.”
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The Thaumaturgy Department
thaumaturg
Main Entry: thau·ma·turg
Pronunciation: \ˈthȯ-mə-ˌtərj\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from New Latin thaumaturgus, from Greek thaumatourgos working miracles, from thaumat-, thauma miracle + ergon work — more at Theater, Work
Main Entry: thau·ma·turg
Pronunciation: \ˈthȯ-mə-ˌtərj\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from New Latin thaumaturgus, from Greek thaumatourgos working miracles, from thaumat-, thauma miracle + ergon work — more at Theater, Work
The official blog of the Dramaturgy Department at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE. For posts related to our current and upcoming shows, click the links to the right. Alternatively, you could begin at the beginning, and explore our posts in chronological order.
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(via thecivilwarparlor)Discovering the Fascinating Story of a Mother’s Life in 1960s Nigeria
One of the voids left behind in the digital age of photography is the excitement and mystery of picking up developed prints from a roll of film.
Imagine the thrill Senongo Akpemfelt when he and his family discovered a trove of slide film taken by their mother, Emily, during her work as a missionary and nurse in Nigeria during the 1960s and ’70s.
“I had no idea most of this stuff was there,” Akpem said about the images. “We knew this stuff was around, but I had no idea of the depth of it.”
A family friend in Nigeria collected the film and had it developed in the United States. Since then, Akpem has started to edit the film, scanning images and uploading them to a website he started calledLost Nigeria.
The images tell the story of his mother’s journey to Nigeria in the early 1960s, when she left her home in California to work as a missionary nurse at the Benue Leprosy Settlement. While there, she fell in love with a Nigerian reverend doctor and had three children—two daughters and a son, Senongo, the youngest born in 1979. The family moved back to the United States soon thereafter and lived between Michigan, California and Nigeria over the next decade.
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“The strength I’m looking for isn’t the kind where you win or lose. I’m not after a wall that’ll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things- unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.”
Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore”
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New App Helps Actors Learn Lines
Samuel French has teamed up with MyTheaterApps.com, the developer of Scene Partner, an App that helps actors learn their lines using their own scripts or by choosing from a growing collection of Publisher e-Scripts—the authorized Acting Editions designed specifically for use with Scene Partner. The first wave of select Samuel French titles are available in the Scene Partner webstore for iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch). Apps for other Smartphones and Android devices coming soon.
What is Scene Partner?:
Scene Partner is an app for Apple devices that allows actors to listen to their lines, their cues, or a whole scene to help them learn their lines faster. Actors can listen to a variety of prerecorded voices – available in different dialects as well – or they can record themselves and their cast mates! Each role can be isolated, so every actor can follow their track through the show or they can customize their track by making their own French Scene Breakdown. Everyone stays on the same page, with real time syncing of any cuts or edits to the script!
-from Anne Hamilton, Hamilton Dramaturgy
http://hamiltondramaturgy.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/new-app-helps-actors-learn-lines/
“ It’s about making our coverage more complete, more representative of the broad experiences of people in America.
Matt Thompson, manager of digital initiatives for National Public Radio, on Code Switch, NPR’s new project dedicated to exploring the nuances of race, ethnicity and diversity inherent to news stories. Read more about Code Switch and two other diversity-related partnerships at Poynter. (via poynterinstitute)
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ATTENTION ALL BALTIMORE ACTORS:
I am directing “The Rainbow Plays” by Rich Espey.
Auditions will be May 15th and 16th from 7-9pm. (Show up any time in that two hour window, but please try to be in the building by 8:30pm.) Callbacks will be held May 19th from 5-7pm.
I am seeking all actors from 18-50 years of age. Up to 16 parts are available to be cast.
Location: Fells Point Corner Theatre- 251 S Ann St Baltimore, MD 21231
Auditions will be cold readings from the script. Actors are encouraged to bring headshot/resume, but not required.
Hope to see you all there!
(“The Rainbow Plays” are a new piece of LGBT theatre written by Rich Espey. Each short play represents a different color of the LGBT flag and the play follows the struggles of the queer community.)
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A ‘Freedom’ ceremony. Taken at Ile-Ife in present day Osun State. 1968
Freedom ceremonies marked women’s graduation into professions such as nursing and tailoring
Vintage Nigeria
PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER: The Great Real Estate Debate
Property values - and how they make people feel - are at the heart of Clybourne Park and on the minds of people in Pittsburgh.
Plays express how people feel. The subject of a play is the vehicle a writer uses to get to those emotions. Topics that usually lead to strong feelings are romance,…
The Sardauna of Sokoto, the Emir of Katsina and members of the High court of Justice of the Northern Region of Nigeria, Kaduna, Nigeria, by Eliot Elisofon, 1959
More backdrop for BENEATHA’S PLACE.
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“ It deals with race relations. It also deals with other things that have presumably changed, (such as) husband/wife relationships and how people speak to one another that are surprising, shocking. … Some things have improved, and some have gone downhill over time,” Berlin says. “It’s two different plays connected by the connections the audience makes and it’s my job to … capitalize on what (Norris) has done.
Alice T. Carter’s preview of Clybourne Park in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. (via publictheaterpgh)
