Friday, August 2, 2013

Our Dream is Called Make Believe...

Post by James Haro:

Holy heck-a-moley, it's August!

When did that happen?

Well, if you're here than you may or may not know that the Drexel Players are getting back into the Fringe of things.

Last night, Aug. 1st, marked the first rehearsal for our devised theatre piece, "Parts: A Speed-Through."


Map of our playing space













Cast members Cami, Carl, Garth, Jason, Jourdan, Mikaila, and me, convened in the Mandell Theatre Green Room and read through the current draft of "TOWN by Gene Wilder." Director, Laurel Hostak, also led us through an exercise which had us all give an imaginary tour of our childhood bedrooms. It was really something extraordinary. When my fellow cast members spoke and walked around the invisible space you could see that they were instantly transported to another place, an important place. 

The idea of being at home, or creating a home, and living there with other people is such an important part of our play.  We all (hopefully) have a place we can call home. For theatre people, we sometimes make our time within a production our home. What is beautiful and tragic about that idea is the fact that every production ends, and with that we are forced to leave our "family."

As we move through the rehearsal process we will be exploring how our characters exist on-stage and backstage, and whether or not as individuals they can call this production of "TOWN by Gene Wilder" another home.

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Parts: A Speed-Through is a devised theatrical piece created by the Drexel Players which will be playing in Philadelphia, September 6-14.

For tickets, please go to :
fringearts.ticketleap.com/parts-a-speed-through


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