away from Wales, but Wales not away from me....
84 degrees in Chicago and Gotham City shimmers in the unexpected heat. I'm trying to make the good weather compensation for missing the NTW housewarming - photos and blogs on this newfangled community thang helps, but i still feel like I've missed out...
Over in US for work and play, in Chicago for discussions on a production of my play 'peeling'.
Wales and theatre/performance is very much on my mind, not just because Mr McG suggested i write a US blog, but also as I'm reading Alyce Von Rothkirch's 'THE PLACE OF WALES: STAGING PLACE IN CONTEMPORARY WELSH DRAMA IN ENGLISH' for New Welsh Review. It seems apt to be reading about the changes in English language performance in post-devolution Wales as NTW unfurls its wings....
Away from Wales, but Wales not away from me. Discover a copy of Gary Owen's 'Ghost City' in Powell's second hand bookstore on North Lincoln Ave yesterday and am so delighted, I buy it. Realise belatedly I should have left it for some striving up-and-coming director to discover, fall in love with, and produce. Sorry, Gary.
At preview of Aditi Brennan Kapil's 'LOVE PERSON' at the biograph - "a modern romance about two couples, three cultures, and four relationships, told in English, Sanskrit, American Sign Language (ASL) and projected email." Issues of translation and bi/trilingualism in performance is one of my big interests, having spent the past decade or so experimenting with British Sign Language (BSL), and spoken/projected English - plus living in Wales. End up in a nasty, noisy sports bar with the cast - the only people able to communicate against the white noise of the sports commentary is me and the Deaf performer - ad libbing in a bastardised ASL/BSL hybrid. The Midwest doesn't have culture, I'm told. It does sports.
More anon.
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Over in US for work and play, in Chicago for discussions on a production of my play 'peeling'.
Wales and theatre/performance is very much on my mind, not just because Mr McG suggested i write a US blog, but also as I'm reading Alyce Von Rothkirch's 'THE PLACE OF WALES: STAGING PLACE IN CONTEMPORARY WELSH DRAMA IN ENGLISH' for New Welsh Review. It seems apt to be reading about the changes in English language performance in post-devolution Wales as NTW unfurls its wings....
Away from Wales, but Wales not away from me. Discover a copy of Gary Owen's 'Ghost City' in Powell's second hand bookstore on North Lincoln Ave yesterday and am so delighted, I buy it. Realise belatedly I should have left it for some striving up-and-coming director to discover, fall in love with, and produce. Sorry, Gary.
At preview of Aditi Brennan Kapil's 'LOVE PERSON' at the biograph - "a modern romance about two couples, three cultures, and four relationships, told in English, Sanskrit, American Sign Language (ASL) and projected email." Issues of translation and bi/trilingualism in performance is one of my big interests, having spent the past decade or so experimenting with British Sign Language (BSL), and spoken/projected English - plus living in Wales. End up in a nasty, noisy sports bar with the cast - the only people able to communicate against the white noise of the sports commentary is me and the Deaf performer - ad libbing in a bastardised ASL/BSL hybrid. The Midwest doesn't have culture, I'm told. It does sports.
More anon.
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Comment by National Theatre Wales on May 23, 2009 at 6:41
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Hi Kate, got the message thanks. Yes I was just thinking of getting you to blog on Perfect. If anyone else is reading this, Perfect was a theatre piece that Kaite, designer Paul Clay and I created in 2003. It was an extraordinary piece though I say it myself (Kaite and Paul both won awards for it, though I didn't, bah!) It was the story of a boy who falls in love with a girl he creates online and kind of predicted a lot of what was soon to happen with Second Life. Paul, as well as being a wonderful stage designer and visual artist, is a total online nerd and so was pretty good at predicting the future. The visuals were extraordinary mix of stage installation, 3D modelling and bluescreen. I'll try and post some pix in the not too distant future.
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Comment by Kaite O'Reilly on May 23, 2009 at 3:29
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being new to this comment thang, am not sure if i'm answering (or even using the system) correctly - but hope i just reply to you here... (By the way, congrats to your web designers for what seems to be such an accessible, simple system (IF i'm using it right...) remember the trials we had when I was trying to write the blog on 'perfect' for contact back in 2004....? you needed a degree in aerodyamics just to say hello...)
Anyway...No signs of Obama-mania in Chicago theatres (NOW..During election it was naturally at fever-pitch) and theatres are really suffering - i'll write about that in a blog.... Alyce Von Rothkirch's book is probably available, though mine might be an advance review copy (but I gather it was from her pHD, published in Germany circa-2007). Interestingly, it's published by MUSE- ie, Mainz University Studies in English -ISBN 978-3-88476-909-6 - well worth a read - good overview, especially since late 70's on (hey, i've just the review here...)
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Great to think of you in the shiny Chicago heat thinking of us! the party was truly lovely, good spirit, great chatting and a real sense of future possibilities - both within and beyond the activity of our new national theatre. I need to read that book you are reviewing. Is it on sale yet? Is Chicago theatre affected by the rise of the city's new favourite son to the role of most powerful human?
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