
A Tight Timeline With Trigorin
As I write this we are about to have a rehearsal for the first time in a week. We have missed four full days of rehearsal. So a lot of my character work on Trigorin, at least in terms of on stage relationships has taken a back seat this week to working only with the script. Which hopefully will turn out to be very good for my memorization! There are only a few things that are actually said about Trigorin, either by him or other characters: 1.) He’s a fairly successful writer,


Thoughts on Chekhov by Riley Van Ess
I'm excited to be appearing in my second year at the Lake Effect Fringe Festival. Last year, along with the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company, we launched a show by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries, Francis Beaumont. "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" is a rather odd show. It's a satire meant to keep people laughing from curtain up to curtain down. If Shakespearean shows were a guidepost for the middle of the road type of acting, between realism and theatrical, this show b