Summer Play Festival
Interns Blog

so i have seen the first two shows of the festival and i must say they were both fantastic. but i think what made it even cooler was (a) they were both free for me because I am an intern, and more importantly (b) that they were both so incredibly different. The Black Suits and Tell Out My Soul were about as different as two shows can be, which is a testimony to the goal of SPF: to simply produce and fund new exciting work. The work doesn’t have to prescribe to any genre, it just has to be good, and that is clearly shown by the diversity of the plays that are being put on this month.
as for green girl, it is going really well. While at times my job of writing down line notes and setting props gets really dull, it still is interesting to be sharing the space with professional actors and directors who I can learn alot from. Since we do go up next week, i thin nerves have become a little raw in rehearsal, with everyone thinking in the backs of their minds “oh my god! we are going up in like 4 days and we’ve had less than 2 weeks of rehearsal!” but I am not too worried because I think that the newness and vibrancy of the work coupled with the short and intense rehearsal process is what makes thus festival so exciting. I think if we are seeking perfection we will probably fail, but if we are seeking a raw sense of newness and creativity we are in very good shape.