Starting rehearsals
After months of prep we finally started rehearsals for The Golden Age. I admit to being unnecessarily nervous. I finished two informational packets, one for the actors and production team and one for...
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Music of the forest family
Rehearsal Question-Forest Family Music Patrick Curran, playing Mac, came to me wondering about the musicality of the forest family. Because some of them don’t speak, but, in Mac’s case, sing, he...
View ArticleA dazzling rehearsal on 1/27/11
Thursday was a particularly riveting day of rehearsal. The forest family and two other characters, Francis, the male lead, and Peter, his good friend, were called to work on a particularly long and...
View ArticleThe Demon Lover Ballad
In act I scene 5, page 14 of the script, Angel hums a tune and then Peter recites the lyrics to the ballad called the Demon Lover. The ballad actually has many titles according to different...
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Pre Rehearsal Dialect Work by Liz Hayes
Below you will find some of the work assembled by Liz Hayes, one of the vocal coaches working on The Golden Age. She came in at the very beginning of the rehearsal process to introduce the various...
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Dialect Work with Max Schadler
I recently spoke with Max Schadler about some of the work he did with dialect coaches Liz Hayes and Amelia Broome. Max’s character Francis has a basic Australian dialect, so Max has been working since...
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Characteristics of the Australian Accent
Phonetics As I am currently enrolled in a phonetics class, I decided to do an exploration of the Australian accent from a phonetic standpoint given what I have learned in the last 4 weeks. We learned...
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Dialect Work with Theresa Masse
Although The Golden Age takes place in Australia, not all of the dialects are central to that area. Theresa Masse, who plays the highbrow society lady Elizabeth, studied a different accent for her...
View ArticleVictories: Joe Lafollette’s work with Autism
Learning about Autism has been revelatory for me as a ‘high-functioning’ person. It has shown me that challenges which are more pronounced in people Autism are present in all of us. At Boston...
View ArticleThe Dramaturgy
Upon attending a performance of The Golden Age, audience members received a dramaturgy “bit,” as I have come to call them. In the place of language-heavy display boards, these “bits” were meant to...
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