Thursday, December 23, 2010

The Crew Comes Together...

I'm inspired again today... my Stage Manager came to Laurier House to visit and she is awesome!  Her name is Jessica Clark Bidgood which is quite a name considering she's only 21 and has never been married:)  She's really talented - she made it into the National Theatre School technical program, and more importantly, she has good aura.  I also have a super cool lighting designer - Chris Wardell, and a creative and talented graphic designer - Jerome Bourgault.  We're still in 2010 and Jerome is already working on graphics for the poster. 

Stay tuned... auditions are mid-February!!!

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The Evolution of Corners

The second reading of "Corners" took place in the evening on Monday, Dec. 6 at Laurier House.  6 talented actors came out, along with my publicity person. 

The reading went really well, and I received good feedback on the play, so I'm going to go ahead with this one for the 2011 Ottawa Fringe Festival.  It's a psychodrama about 4 women in 4 corners who play out the inner drama from their youths.  It's about the impact that parents have on their children as adults.  Well actually one of the 4 is still a teenager, which I decided after this reading, to space the ages out a but further, plus it suits the character more. 

It looks like I have a stage manager, it looks like I have a publicity person, and I definitely have a graphic designer for the publicity stuff.  I'm going to have auditions in February 2011, so that I can give the actors a chance to become familiar with the script before rehearsals begin.  All is good!