Endgame – Director’s Notes
By Edward Sobel, Associate Artistic Director I first fell in love with the work of Samuel Beckett when I was in college. At eighteen, what I perceived as aridly funny nihilism…
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Directing Endgame – What’s the Story?
By Edward Sobel, >pharm Associate Artistic Director A critic once described Samuel Beckett’s two-act masterpiece Waiting for Godot as “Nothing happens. Twice.” Understandable, but not correct. A careful reading, and…
Read MoreDirecting Endgame – Designing Life after Cataclysm
By Edward Sobel, Associate Artistic Director In my previous post I mentioned Beckett’s early drafts of Endgame contained specific information about time and place which he subsequently edited out. In…
Read MoreAbout The Writers’ Room
Ed Sobel, Associate Artistic Director These Director’s Notes appear in the stagebill for Women in Jep, which runs on the Arden’s Arcadia Stage July 5-15, 2012 The Writers’ Room is…
Read MoreReading “A Raisin in the Sun”
By Ed Sobel, >advice Arden’s Associate Artistic Director and Director of Clybourne Park When Bruce Norris was a young boy growing up in Texas, he saw a production of Lorraine…
Read MoreThe American Family
By Ed Sobel, >troche Arden Associate Artistic Director and original dramaturg on August: Osage County “Home is the place where when you have to go there, >ailment they have to…
Read MoreSeason Planning – A Surprise Addendum
By Ed Sobel, Associate Artistic Director At the end of my last posting on season planning, I noted that despite the fact that we had announced our season, sometimes that…
Read MoreSeason Planning 4 – Some (possibly) final thoughts
By Ed Sobel, Associate Artistic Director As you likely have seen, we announced our season for 2010-11. Some of you may be disappointed to see your recommended plays not make…
Read MoreSeason Planning 3 – Old and New
By Ed Sobel, Associate Artistic Director Quite understandably, very few of the season suggestions we received were brand new plays that had not yet been performed elsewhere. One of the…
Read MoreSeason Planning — An Economics Lesson
By Ed Sobel, >case Associate Artistic Director First, please accept my thanks to all who have posted comments and suggestions thus far. As promised, I am going to respond to…
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