Theatre 228:
The Cartographic Imagination
Williamstheatre

Rehearsal #2  (Seminar Room)
Date: 10/19/2011

General

The group continued the discussion that was started last night by considering the ideas from last rehearsal of the clown troupe and of the mapmaker, as well as the larger question of how narrative will function in the context of the ensemble’s show.  Everyone is excited to start writing tomorrow!

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Tomorrow’s Schedule

Developmental Work in the Seminar Room       

6:30 –  Full Ensemble CALLED
8:00 – Full Ensemble RELEASED

Thanks all!  Please contact Stage Management with questions or concerns.

Lily Riopelle
Stage Manager

DUE: Monday Oct 31
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Storytime assignment

Anne Bogart, in her book A Director Prepares, talks about the research process in the development of new plays, and in particular talks about the importance of stopping the research process. I consider all of the work that we have been engaged in for the last five weeks to be “research” in the way that Bogart describes, whether it was looking at maps and charts and timelines, reading books on their history and usage, or generating creative responses to, and meditations on, this idea of maps and mapping that we have tackled for 228.  The latter has been vital research, this research-by-doing; research in which you have used you creativity to discover what Maps are, or can be.

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Slides for Mapmakers presentation

Mapmakers quiz