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September Re:Union Workshop – Day 1

Today was the first day of our final Re:Union workshop before the production. Wow. For the first time, we had all the key players in one room.  Playwright. Director. Actors. Designers. Dramaturg. Producers. Stage Management. Administrators. Technical Staff.  Pretty amazing to look around the table and see the calibre of people we are working with to make this show.  But I’m getting ahead of myself. First, allow me to introduce myself.  Hi.  I’m Lois.  I’m the stage manager for Re:Union. […]

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Developing Activist Theatre

Whenever I hear a new draft of Re:Union, I am struck anew by the relevance of the questions it asks. The intersection between war, peace, and family, resonates. For a few days at the end of June, the design team, director John Langs, playwright Sean Devine and actors Alexa Devine, Robert Olguin, and Kevin McNulty, gathered around a table to imagine the play in three dimensions on stage at Pacific Theatre. The personal and political converged around the table, as […]

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Washington DC Re:Union Research Trip: Blog Entry #2

As Horseshoes & Hand Grenades and Pacific Theatre  continue our development and pre-production work on our upcoming Fall 2011 project, Re:Union, we’re going to be blogging throughout our creation and development process.   For our second entry, HHG co-artistic director Sean Devine talks about recent trips to Washington, DC and Ottawa.   From one nation’s capital to  another… Who knew the life of a playwright-producer could be so jet-setting. Fresh from an amazing research and promotion trip to Washington, DC, […]

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