Philip’s first post on “Horse” at GVSU
Philip on Aug 25 2005 at 10:54 am | Filed under: Annoucements, General Theatre
Nico has been asking me to post something from the first day she started this blog and then went on to post and invitation to me, which I guess was to encourage me to post or maybe to shame me in to posting. Anyway, I told her I would post as soon as I had something to say. It’s not much but so here goes:
Yesterday, I got my J-1 Visa from the American Embassy which enables me go and do this work so it’s now starting to feel as if this production is getting closer. My first trip is in less than three weeks (September 13th) and that trip is for me to hold auditions and to meet with all concerned about set design, costumes, stage management, promotion etc. I also will get a chance to see where I will be living and working come October. I’ll be at GVSU for about a week and then I return to Nassau. I go back there during the first week of October and begin rehearsals on the 10th for the production which is scheduled to open on November 11th.
It’s been a while since I directed “You Can Lead A Horse To Water”, which I continue to think is a brilliant work. By that I don’t just mean a brilliant “Bahamian” work but, having directed around sixty plays, this one stands right up there with some of the best of them. I think that even Winston sometimes underestimates just how good this play is but maybe that’s just modesty or as some of us might say “he just playing cute”.
Having worked on this play before, with an all-american cast, I know that I have my work cut out for me. The dialects, along with the music and rhythms, add other levels to what already exist with the character work.
I’m looking forward to all of it and I’m grateful to have a chance to play with this work once again.
Philip.
in Michigan
in November?
OH! I gotta get there.
theatre in vancouver things are going really really really well. I just received a big residency grant from the Canada Council to be artist in residence at Rumble Productions (www.rumble.org) where I’ll assistant direct the mainstage season, be a dramaturg for their script development program and associate producer for the PuSh Festival (www.pushfestival.ca). Yahoo! a gig from august to june!
and I’ve just written and am directing a smutty, sexy little play about Serge Gainsbourg (check out the website above) for the Vancouver Fringe.
And I miss Philip and Nico alot… Hey Burrows, why don’t you come up to Vancouver for a week after your show? We can go down to Seattle and catch some things at On the Boards, or check out some stuff here. If you open on the 11 and close on the 19, you could get up here for just around the time we’ll be opening a remount of ‘Soulless’… which is a pretty fine little play. I’d love for you to see some Vancouver work so we can get it down to Nassau.
and we can drink wine, and you can meet my partner Antoine, and we can stay up til 4am gossipping and catching up.
love to you both, glad to see you’re still leading the artistic charge in the bahamas.
xoxo
kris.