Secret in the Wings is the most beautiful show I have ever seen. Fairy tales, imagination games, scary basement, dreams, fears, haunting music, snakes, ships, forests, mean girls, favorite brothers, hearts floating above a head... The best part is... Its playing in my theater until February 13th!
Seriously, I think this is the kind of theater I've dreamed about, but never witnessed. It was created by Mary Zimmerman. She's the writer/director. And until last night, I didn't think a writer should direct their own theater. But her process is different. I'm told she creates the text in rehearsal. So, the rigidity that I have found in the past with authors directing a work that's been in their head for years, simply wasn't there. Where does this lead me? Ms. Zimmerman is a teacher in the Performance Studies department at Northwestern. Northwestern also has an MFA Directing program, which I've been looking at applying for Fall 2006. But now, I've witnessed what could be the most thrilling theater of my life created by a woman without an MFA. No, she has an MA/PhD. What's scary is that its so tempting: To bury myself in a program that involves analysis, critical writing, dissertations AND creating theater. I know I'm smart enough. I know I could do it. I also know it would be incredibly difficult. I ask myself, what on earth would I research? What aspect of performance interests me? Oh, and in order to get a PhD I'd have to be able to read and write another language. Good thing I've been studying my french lessons the last few months.
Then, I'm also looking at another internship. This one at the Playwrights Horizons in NYC. All they want is a coverletter and resume. If they are interested, then there's a face-to-face interview. This is the theater that created my two favorite musicals of all time: Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George and Adam Guetel's Floyd Collins. They also created Driving Miss Daisy and many many many others.
So, if all goes right in my world for the next few years as of what I want this second... next year I will be at Playwrights Horizons, the year after that I will start graduate school at Northwestern (which program... still not sure).
Seriously, I think this is the kind of theater I've dreamed about, but never witnessed. It was created by Mary Zimmerman. She's the writer/director. And until last night, I didn't think a writer should direct their own theater. But her process is different. I'm told she creates the text in rehearsal. So, the rigidity that I have found in the past with authors directing a work that's been in their head for years, simply wasn't there. Where does this lead me? Ms. Zimmerman is a teacher in the Performance Studies department at Northwestern. Northwestern also has an MFA Directing program, which I've been looking at applying for Fall 2006. But now, I've witnessed what could be the most thrilling theater of my life created by a woman without an MFA. No, she has an MA/PhD. What's scary is that its so tempting: To bury myself in a program that involves analysis, critical writing, dissertations AND creating theater. I know I'm smart enough. I know I could do it. I also know it would be incredibly difficult. I ask myself, what on earth would I research? What aspect of performance interests me? Oh, and in order to get a PhD I'd have to be able to read and write another language. Good thing I've been studying my french lessons the last few months.
Then, I'm also looking at another internship. This one at the Playwrights Horizons in NYC. All they want is a coverletter and resume. If they are interested, then there's a face-to-face interview. This is the theater that created my two favorite musicals of all time: Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George and Adam Guetel's Floyd Collins. They also created Driving Miss Daisy and many many many others.
So, if all goes right in my world for the next few years as of what I want this second... next year I will be at Playwrights Horizons, the year after that I will start graduate school at Northwestern (which program... still not sure).
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