Just saw Ibsen’s The Master Builder on a D. Trump syllabus because of the apparent parallels an am most intrigued because I’ve never read or seen it.

It is in the public domain and is available via multiple sources online. e.g. http://www.archive.org/stream/themasterbuilder04070gut/mbldr10.txt ; http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Master-Builder1.html ; http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4070/4070-h/4070-h.htm

The work could probably use some modernization in order to be fully accessible to a contemporary lay audience. And without doing extensive research, I’ve already found info on a 2014 Jonathan Demme film of Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn’s film adaptation. It’s available via the Criterion Collection.

Even without having read it, I’m thinking it might be fun to deconstruct it and put it back together again in a highly visual stage structure, maybe with some improv and/or genre or media fusion under a variation on the title.

If you have thoughts, I’d love to hear them.#homework

And in the meantime, it’s on the CPF list of potential projects which I will post when it becomes legitimately long enough to resemble a list. 😉

-alicia

How hard can it be to find a large, empty space to make plays?

Seems like it should be easy enough.

We’ll work without tech if we have to. We understand this is a money-based economy and nothing is free. We don’t have any money, but we will work to make art. What if we ask the audience to bring their own chairs?

We are creative. We can make things out of no things.

But we need a room with an address where we can invite people to come and sit down around a play and forget they are in a room. 

The search continues …

via … http://www.openculture.com/2016/06/how-to-look-at-art-a-short-visual-guide-by-cartoonist-lynda-barry.html

” …that’s what the arts do. In the course of human life we have a million phantom-limb pains—losing a parent when you’re little, being in a war, even something as dumb as having a mean teacher—and seeing it somehow reflected, whether it’s in our own work or listening to a song, is a way to deal with it.” -Linda Barry in The Paris Review