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Theatre workshop

by on Apr.07, 2009, under Projects, Travel

Well Friday was an interesting day. April talked me into running a workshop on a theatre piece I’d worked on in 2007 for the Des Moines Fringe Festival. It’s a bit, colorful, in language and appearance to which I wasn’t sure I wanted to expose to another country. The students however took to it with gusto and created their own versions of the title puppets and then performed scenes from the script. Between construction and performance they viewed the dvd of the show from the final night of the Fringe. Everyone had fun though some of that was from unintentional humor like the student trying to figure out how to turn the pages of the script with a puppet on each hand. Or interesting pronunciation of medical terms.

Talked to another tutor who knew about the workshop.  She’d already seen the promo video that our producer has put up for this summer when the thing is back to haunt me again. Bit embarrassing for that to be the show I’m getting known for. I’ll need to make the new puppets for that when I get home, looks like it will be eating the end of July and first part of August in Minnesota. Possibly more of August if the show gets picked up by the New York Fringe as well.

I still need to write up more of the trip and post those soon before my memory goes fuzzy. Also need to finish a short story soon if its going to be submitted. Going to move on to that now I think.

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