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Improv as Professional Development for Teachers
On an unseasonably warm and rainy late Wednesday afternoon in early February a group of timid yet very excited and curious Philadelphia public school teachers arrived at the Arden’s Hamilton…
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Navigating the Masculine World of 1959
Emilie Krause writes on the female perspective in Funnyman I fall in love with my characters. I can’t help it. It’s what happens when you spend hours obsessing over someone. I…
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What’s Equivocation about?
It’s London, 1606. William Shakespeare (in the play spelled Shagspeare, or Shag) has just been made an offer he can’t refuse: King James I wants him to write a play…
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Questions For Shakespeare
Bill Cain spent months researching and writing Equivocation, a play that imagines a crisis in Shakespeare’s creative and personal life. He’s spent more time revising the script for production. Here…
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The Tension Between
By Dramaturg Jessica Bedford In an interview with New York magazine, playwright Bill Cain discussed his favorite example of equivocation. It comes from Miep Gies who told the Nazis, treat…
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A Tale of a Towel
By Brittany Brewer FIRST LAUNDRESS: What would you do with all the money in the world? SECOND LAUNDRESS: What a question. FIRST LAUNDRESS: I know what I’d do. [Pause]. Do…
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Inside the Splash Zone – performing Metamorphoses
By Krista Apple-Hodge (Aphrodite and others) I know what you’re wondering. And yes, the water is warm. Delightfully, wonderfully warm. As the audience takes their seats in the Haas theatre,…
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How to build a pool onstage (or, How I spent my summer vacation)
By Glenn Perlman, Technical Director Over the last couple of years, during season planning discussions each spring, I’d heard rumblings about us doing Metamorphoses — or as theatre technicians commonly…
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Planning for Sondheim — On Your Feet — With No Light
Jonathan Silver was the Producer for the Master Storyteller Award presented to Stephen Sondheim on June 1, 2015. He is also a freelance actor, director, and voice-over artist whose work at…
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What is a Sound Designer?
Dan Perelstein is the Sound Designer for the Jungle Book. He was also the sound designer for Robin Hood and Pinocchio here at the Arden. Dan works on a lot…
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