Remarks by Resident Dramaturg Kate Bredeson. Enjoy! There’s something refreshing about Court Theatre’s approach to the preview process. At Court, there are not just a couple of previews, but a whole week of them: seven performances total. And every night, following the performance, there is a post-show discussion between audience and artistic staff (usually led [...]
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No Stillness In the Land of the Wild Duck
Posted in Artist post, Rehearsal, The Wild Duck on January 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Time stands still in the land of the wild duck.
Posted in Artist post, The Wild Duck on January 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Essay written for the production by Kimberly Kenny, Senior Lecturer in Norwegian at the University of Chicago. The Wild Duck, the fifth in his prose play cycle of twelve, introduced a new phase in Ibsen’s drama. The first of Ibsen’s psychological plays, it followed Enemy of the People, which concluded the so-called social plays. Ibsen [...]
Richard Nelson speaks
Posted in Artist post, The Wild Duck on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Interview with Translator/Adapter Richard Nelson and Charlie Newell, conducted by Resident Dramaturg Kate Bredeson WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO THE WILD DUCK? RN: Immediately what brought me to The Wild Duck was Charlie. Charlie asked me if I would do a new version of the play and I agreed. There is a longer, more involved story [...]
Blah blah blah–see you tomorrow!
Posted in Rehearsal, The Wild Duck on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today’s rehearsal just ended–the cast was staging and then working through Act V, the play’s manic, creepy, hilarious climax. The actors, to my eye, seem a bit desperate, a bit terrified of the whirlpool Ibsen’s created; they’re holding on for dear life. The staging moved very quickly–Charlie has a a clearer and more complete list [...]
Everything’s Pretty Much Already Been Invented
Posted in Rehearsal, The Wild Duck on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s First Rehearsal again. This one, The Wild Duck, is the show I’ve been waiting for since last February. The cast is outrageous — they’ve all worked at Court before, in some of our best shows (Hamlet, The Glass Menagerie, Carousel, Titus Andronicus). Jay Whittaker is back in town! It’s a smaller group than the [...]
