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Us and Them --- It is an article of faith among our tribe that there are two kinds of people, "Theatre Folk" and "Civilians". We inhabit the same plane of existence, and exist in different worlds. It's an us and them mindset not unlike Muggles and ...

Another Week Gone --- It has been another hectic and productive week for the Othello Company. We have sketched out staging for the whole play and are now ready for the next phase of the rehearsal process. We call it "working through". We have our blocking and ...

My Model for Manhood --- His name was Cruz Garcia Perez. He was tall and dark and beautiful and fearsome and funny and powerful and insecure. He had been a cowboy, a miner, a boxer, a longshoreman, a soldier, a husband and my father. He was full ...

The Food of Love --- Shakespeare plays almost always have songs in them. Even Hamlet features a little ditty that the gravedigger serenades the dead with as he goes about his grisly work. In Othello there is a tavern scene where Lieutenant Cassio has one too ...

Nuts and Bolts --- To the untrained eye, good direction and skilled acting appears effortless. So much so that the story and characters come to the fore and command the attention of the audience. But to tell a story with clarity and precision and the appearance ...

A Full And Proper Kit --- We have finally rounded out our company. A group of non equity acting students, and graduates have arrived to do the important work of peopling the stage. In Shakespeare this is crucial work because every story has kings and queens ...

Pedaling About --- I promised myself that I would keep active and in-shape for Othello. Some of that impulse comes from my personal phobia of ever being "the problem". It's interesting to note that for me the actor's nightmare is not the typical "I-realized-I-was-on-stage-and-I-didn't-know-my-lines" dream. My ...

Destiny --- When I was 13 years old I started reading the works of Shakespeare. The stories of Kings and Fools and Faeries and madmen and knights and thieves and banished dukes and motherless daughters captured me, enthralled me, took me prisoner.  And I was fascinated ...

On Our Feet -- The intellectual work is over and now we are tackling the physical problem of the Delacorte stage. The Delacorte is a difficult theatre, and a wonderful, wonderful venue. It is enormous, with seating for 1800 people and a stage that can encompass ...

Synthesis --- Day three of our table work and we have closed the circle on the Hegelian "thesis, antithesis, synthesis". At the close of 18 hours of reading, discussing exploring  and challenging the original cut we found ourselves with an edition of Othello that is different from ...