Life after the Summer Winds

Howdy,

I am in LAByrinth's off speaking with Trevor, who began the idea of blogging for the Play Development Process of the Public LAB presentation of SWEET STORM, and we were talking about the value of the blog in all of our Development or Production Processes. And well - I'm a fan. I love sharing the process with you - whomever you are, because I think the process of creating a play is challenging and should never be done alone. And sharing my experience with you - makes me understand it better, and possibly for those of you venturing into your own process reading these postings will give you comfort in your process. And for the voyeur or fan who is just curious what's happening with this play...hey good to see you again.

Two things happening with Scott Hudson's SWEET STORM. The first is after seeing the play at the Public LAB in June Clark University invited me up to work on the play with their students. We are doing a presentation with the similar level of tech as the Public LAB. It is more of a workshop for the actors. Who, thus far, are great. Leah and Dan are playing Ruthie and Bo. They are meeting every challenge and working as hard as they can. And they love the play. I also have the fortune of a brilliant post grad stage manager - Kate who is holding the tree house together as I commute to Worcester, MA and NYC. We are doing the presentations in a wonderful rehearsal room with a giant tree blowing outside the window. We are hoping to light this tree for our presentation - hopefully the wind and rain will be there too. For more details - I will share as they come.
Oh - and Scott added some text that we are trying out. So far so good.

Second piece of news: there is a theater company in New York interested in producing the play in the Spring of '09. It is still in the discussion phase as of now - so I won't mention the Company involved. But I will say that their interest stems from seeing the Public LAB presentation as well - and that they thought the play was beautiful and about the risk involved in allowing another person to love you. And the absence of cynism - was not only heart warming, but also a little threatening - and something that the world should experience today. All of that was lovely.

Now that Trevor has jogged my memory of the blogging - I'll keep you posted about the Clark Presentation, and any news on the possible Spring Production.

Goodnight,

Padraic