Ten years older

In 2000, Eclipse Theatre Company chose Lillian Hellman as our featured playwright. We explored the roots of the Hubbard family in Another Part of the Forest, Hellman’s political voice in Watch on the Rhine, and her adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s The Lark.
The Autumn Garden was, of course, on the short list of plays under consideration [...]

Planting a garden

Throughout the first two weeks of rehearsals for The Autumn Garden, we’ve been working mostly on the blocking – figuring out how all twelve actors move around the set and what the overall shape of the play looks like. In the last few days we’ve started going back through the script, asking questions and talking [...]

Friday blog rescue

Yes, it’s a little more urgent this morning than the usual photo, but I’ll start with that: this is from our upcoming production of Lillian Hellman’s The Autumn Garden.
We’ve been in rehearsals for two weeks now, and it’s been months since my last visit to the blogosphere. I’m adding the dramaturgical research for The Autumn [...]