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By Alina Trowbridge, Devoted Cutting Ball Audience Member and Local Playwright When I attended Cutting Ball’s staged readings of the Strindberg chamber plays, the only Strindberg I’d been exposed to was “Miss Julie” on video… Read more »
By Suzanne Appel, Cutting Ball Managing Director Last Saturday the thirteen actors and five production staff for Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep pulled off an incredible feat. They performed all five of August… Read more »
By Amy Clare Tasker, Assistant Director for the Strindberg Cycle One of my favorite metaphors in The Chamber Plays is in Burned House, when The Stranger (James Carpenter) reflects on the uncanny interconnectedness of people… Read more »
By Jamie Harkin, Production Assistant for the Strindberg Cycle Being involved with this project has been the most challenging theater experience I’ve ever had. I contacted Cutting Ball about 5 weeks ago asking if there… Read more »
By Amy Clare Tasker, Assistant Director for the Strindberg Cycle As we draw closer to the opening of each part of the Strindberg Cycle, we’re finally indulging in the “luxury” of working on one thing… Read more »
By Jocelyn Thompson, Stage Manager for the Strindberg Cycle I still remember the day I decided to come on board for this project. I had no idea what I was going to be getting into… Read more »
By Cliff Caruthers, Sound Designer for the Strindberg Cycle As we near the finish line, opening all 5 of the Chamber plays in three weeks, I’m beginning to get some perspective on the somewhat terrifying… Read more »
By Amy Clare Tasker, Assistant Director for the Strindberg Cycle Watching the final dress rehearsal of The Pelican and The Black Glove last night before our first preview, I was struck by the contrasting sense of scale between the… Read more »
By York Kennedy, Lighting Designer for the Strindberg Cycle Driving over the bridge today (October 23), exhausted from a full day of work already, I was wondering how in the world I was going to… Read more »
By Ponder Goddard, Actor in the Strindberg Cycle A good friend of mine came to see Ghost Sonata on Saturday. He is a theater artist as well, in a different vein, but we share a love… Read more »
By Amy Clare Tasker, Assistant Director The Cutting Ball Theater’s mission is to produce experimental plays with an emphasis on language and images. Strindberg’s Chamber Plays have both of these in abundance, and it is… Read more »
By Alina Trowbridge Devoted Cutting Ball Audience Member and Local Playwright I missed a lot of Cutting Ball’s Strindberg staged readings this year (i.e. Krispy Kritters) that turned out to be preparation for full productions… Read more »
Lauren Rosenfield, Assistant Dramaturg There is a series of YouTube videos called “Strindberg and Helium” that, if you haven’t seen, you might want to stop everything and go watch right now. Essentially, the videos show… Read more »
By Amy Clare Tasker Assistant Director Throughout the Chamber Plays, Strindberg rails against the restrictions and pretense of polite society, the falseness of friends, and the unjust punishment delivered to those who dare to assert… Read more »
By Carl Holvick-Thomas Actor in the Strindberg Cycle When people ask me about staging these plays, I tell them it’s like putting together a massive jigsaw puzzle in which you don’t know what the final… Read more »
By Amy Clare Tasker, Assistant Director Writing the Chamber Plays at the end of his life, Strindberg had a lot to say about the idea of time. In all but The Pelican, James Carpenter plays… Read more »
By Ponder Goddard Actor in the Strindberg Cycle Have you ever watched and wondered at professional dog-walkers? I think they are amazing people. At the tips of their fingers are often half a dozen individual… Read more »
By Rem Myers Directing Intern In The Black Glove, the fifth opus of the Chamber Plays, the nickname of the characters’ house is ‘The Tower of Babel,’ with different people from different socio-economic backgrounds living… Read more »
By James Carpenter Actor in the Strindberg Cycle When Rob first proposed this project to me a year or so ago I confess that I was hesitant–I’d done only one Strindberg (Badly, I might add)… Read more »