One month to our opening at the Kitchen! Click on our show page to find out more (no tix necessary).
·And now meet our build team: Becca Hebert (yoga teacher, photographer), Moose Jackson (poet/writer of ArtSpot’s LOUP GAROU), Phil Cramer (New Noise Theater), and Barbara Haley (professor of dance at Tulane). You’ll see them on stage with us, and keep an eye on our fb page to see little videos of them.
Rehearsals have been awesome, although we’ve had to rearrange our entire rehearsal schedule to accommodate for– not actor auditions or other shows– but TERMITES, who are swarming this time of year in New Orleans. For the next two weeks, we have to pause our rehearsal between 7:50 and 9pm while the termites swarm, then we come back for the last hour of the day. It’s hilarious, and (frankly!) annoying, but it’s all part of working in new orleans in an old warehouse called Happyland that is just open to the outside world in plenty of places. And in many ways the nature intrusions keep us connected to something that’s important to the piece, and that is that human beings are not at the center of everything, controlling everything, making all the decisions. So it feels right.
Our army of Bywater New-Bohemian twenty-something women are over there every day embroidering the trees, Shawn is consulting with her welder friend rachel over drawings of the big tree– a magnificent draped purple and pink live oak-esque tree that anchors the installation. Lisa and Katie are teaching the build team a composition written by Brendan Connelly composed entirely of breaths and sniffs, running to lowes at least once a day, and watching tapes of previous rehearsals to try to get a grasp on the evolving picture of the installation as it grows. Lisa is writing texts and Katie is on email constantly putting together our NYC based performer crew. It’s a wildly diverse process… finding its own form every day… wahoo!