Saturdays: EA Rehearsal Playground
Archives: 2023 Character Challenges + Mainstage Projects
“I love the smell of rehearsal on a Saturday …”
SATURDAYS - REHEARSAL PLAYGROUND. We rehearse and play in two unique ways: weekly character challenges + monthly mainstage rehearsal projects.
They’re designed for solo exploration, archived on Substack, organized and easy to revisit anytime.
Jump in one week, recharge the next.
An open playground ready when you are.
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2023 Weekly Character Challenges
How fully can you live in character?
The first three Saturdays of each month deliver weekly character rehearsal challenges straight to your inbox.
Something dynamic, something experimental, something to push the boundaries of truth in character.
The last Saturday of the month sets free our month’s solo work in exciting, experimental ways - allowing it to spark with the unknowns of collaborative play … evolving, challenging and enhancing our work.
PART ONE: EDGAR LEE MASTER’S SPOON RIVER
January - Life Story
Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four.
February - The Elysium Etudes (Mind, Body, Soul)
Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four.
March - Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four.
April - Essential Beauty
Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four.
May - The Portal
Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four.
PART TWO: ANTON CHEKHOV’S PLAYS
June - Three Sisters
Week One, Week Two, Week Three.
July - The Cherry Orchard
Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four.
August - The Seagull
Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four.
September - Uncle Vanya
Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four.
PART THREE: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS
October - The Unknown Servant
Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four.
November - The Unknown Soldier
Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four.
Monthly Mainstage Rehearsal Projects
How fully can you access your unique creativity?
Winter (The Tree) Spring (O.Henry), Summer (Oz), Fall (Stravinsky)
On the first Saturday of the month, our mainstage rehearsal project gets posted for subscribers to play with all month long.
Each project builds out an array of rehearsal tools, applying them to work you’ll remember forever. The stuff that makes acting worth investing in.
Worth believing in.
Apply your discoveries to any new character, any new world that finds you in your training and professional life.
It’s about your creative potential taking you where no one has gone before.
Winter - The Tree
Self (Creative Communication)
January
February
Spring - O. Henry
Love (The Essential Beauty)
March
April
May
Summer - Oz
Imagination (Performance Possibility)
June
July
August
The Sliver
Fall - Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale
Creativity (Freedom Within Form)
September
Form
October
Freedom
November
The Dionysia
