Timeline
Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft
Three years, three productions.
Explore the Witchcraft project.
Three years, three productions.
Explore the Witchcraft project.
Meet-and-Greet of Cast and Dissemination of Creative Research (Matrabox), Preparation of Baillie text (adaptation and scene selection) by dramaturg.
Preparation for Staged Reading of Selected Scenes, Contextual Dramaturgical Research (Matrabox)
Staged Reading with Affiliated Scholar Presentations – Michael Sinatra, Thomas Crochunis, Jonathan Sachs (Matrabox); Discussion of eventual production for Congress 2010.
Resonant Responses completed and read by directors. First round of dramaturgical conferences with playwrights.
Performing Rehearsal Period for Baillie scenes and Resonant Responses
Preview of show prior to Congress (Hexagram Blackbox)
Run of the Show at Congress, with evening talkback session with scholar Michael Eberle Sinatra, and artistic team. (Hexagram Blackbox)
Casting begins for Year II The Rhetoric of the Passions acting workshop with Cristina Iovita. Actor packet on gestural codes completed (Joanna Donehower, Nina Drystek, Anna Sigg)
Rehearsals begin (Matrabox), Ulla completes RASABOX workshop with the actors.
Debbie Sullivan completes costume and set design.
Preliminary Presentation of scenes for interested scholars.
Reprise of Gestural Workshop in preparation for Melodrama Conference (Melodrama at the Interface of Media and Genre, a SHRRC group led by Dr. Marcie Frank)
Filming of gestural workshop outcomes (Nika) and Final Presentation of The Rhetoric of the Passions at the Melodrama Conference, with talkback session of affiliated working group scholars. Joanna presents short paper on adaptation, melodrama, and the case of Witchcraft at the melodrama conference.
Preliminary meetings with designers, tech folks re Witchcraft. Dramaturgs complete actor packet for distribution to actors (Joanna Donehower and Manon Manavit)
First Read-through of full script with actors, followed by dramaturgical revisions. Presentation of previous work (year one, year two), and a bit of historical context / glossary.
Preview and Opening Night