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.
Check out the following sites for a glance at some of the past, fully staged productions of after the quake:
-Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre mounted the first production (sensible enough as, hey, it was adapted by Steppenwolf ensemble member Frank Galati). Site includes a number of articles, including thoughts from Galati.
-Company One in Boston offers a nifty video (check it out), along with other media and information.
-Berkeley Rep also offers a mix of images and information.
“ Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize it or not. Just as surely as you breathe, you go on ceaselessly dreaming your story. And in these stories you wear two faces. You are simultaneously subject and object. You are the whole and you are the part. You are real and you are shadow. ‘Storyteller’ and at the same time ‘character’. It is through such multilayering of roles in our stories that we heal the loneliness of being an isolated individual in the world.
Haruki Murakami, in Underground (as quoted in Jay Rubin’s Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words)
“ To understand something and to put that something into a form you can see with you own eyes are two completely different things.
Haruki Murakami, “honey pie” (featured in after the quake)
