A few thoughts and photos on the nature of the much (and unfairly?) maligned technical rehearsal - from today's tech' at Chapter.

http://kaiteoreilly.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/the-echo-chamber-the-tech-day-one/

The latest post about getting The Echo Chamber, a collaboration between Ian Morgan, Phillip Zarrilli, Peader Kirk and me, with design by Ace McCarron can be read at:

http://kaiteoreilly.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/the-echo-chamber-getting-in-getting-ready/

The end of the third week of rehearsals for The Echo Chamber with the Llanarth Group, which opens at Chapter in Cardiff next week. You can find some rehearsal photos on my blog documenting the making process with Ian Morgan, Phillip Zarrilli and Peader Kirk at:…

Nearing the end of my first rehearsal week making The Echo Chamber with The Llanarth Group - Peader Kirk, Phillip Zarrilli and Ian Morgan. I've posted a blog on text and physical structures when working with practitioners who can count training in Kerala in Kathakali dance theatre and Kalarippayyttu, in Paris with Monika Pagneux, and in Italy with Grotowski at his Workcenter between them. To read the post, go to:…

2012 is promising to be a full-on year for me, with several productions - all using different processes, creative teams and aesthetics. In anticipation of what I may learn or discover about practice, I started a blog back in 2011, realising that unless I gave myself a task and external focus, those reflections might remain buried and unexpressed. I suppose this is a writerly version of the EM Forster's 'How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?' 

I've just begun rehearsals…