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Andronicus roles assigned

For the past two weeks, I’ve had a Google form live, accepting reservations for participating in the Andronicus table-read June 8, and taking role requests. After closing the registration one day early (because I already had more readers than roles–even after I separated out those roles that in a full production would have been combined under the same performer), I was able to juggle their weighted requests (they could chose up to five roles, ranking them 1-5) and come up with actor/role combinations.

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Plays, plays, plays

OK, so many of you know I’ll be holding a table-read of my cutting (pun intended) of Titus Andronicus, for a primarily female cast (only Aaron will be a male performer). But in the back of my head, I’m creating a kind of bucket list of other plays I’d like to direct…

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As I Like It (not)

So, a week ago, I attended a cinema screening of the recent Royal Shakespeare Company production of As You Like It. I went with some alums of my AYL, my producer Laura, and cast members Chris and Ashley.

It was all right.

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Andronicus Table-Read Registration

As I’ve mentioned in the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a rather major script-edit and adaptation of Titus Andronicus for an (almost) all-female cast. But as I can only see how well the adaptation is going by hearing how well the script reads, I’ve planned a table-read of the text for Saturday, June 8, at the Elite Theatre Company in Oxnard, California.

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Time to go to battle…

So, as I mentioned last week, I’m thrilled to be playing the roles of Sir Walter Blunt and the Archbishop of York in Archway Theatre Company’s production of Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, next month. And for anyone who knows the plays, these are war stories, and Sir Walter gets a little combat action in.

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Andronicus Character List

Last week, I announced that I have scheduled a table read for my edit/adaptation of Titus Andronicus. Earlier this week, I announced on the Facebook event page a kind of schedule for the upcoming weeks in run-up to the event.

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Editing

So, yeah, it’s been a while since As You Like It, and I really think that I’ve been avoiding writing about the experience. Not that it was painful or bad, mind you, but just because I don’t know where to start.

And thus, I start by procrastinating. There’s always stuff to do. Like editing the video of the production. I recorded four performances with my iPad, and I’m in the process of editing it together.

I’m about halfway done. When it’s done, maybe I’ll share a bit.

You know, just to avoid writing about it.