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Megan and I are getting pretty excited about our upcoming workshop of The Helen Project at DIVAfest this May! One of the many things on our to-do list – along with assembling our creative team, budgeting, brainstorming on the form and functionality of the “online interactive CyberJourney” and you know, continuing to write, edit, and…
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The San Francisco Olympians Festival Phoebe & Theia by Amy Clare Tasker directed by Annie Paladino starring Siobhan Marie Doherty and Marilet Martinez December 7, 2012 at 8PM As is the case with many female figures in ancient history and mythology, not much is known about Phoebe and Theia beyond the names of their husbands…
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2012 has been a year of fragmentation, as I rearranged my life with a new job and new theatrical communities. I’ve realized, too, that my artistic work has been in fragments lately: Since February, Megan Cohen and I have been putting together our “Build Your Own Helen Play Kit,” made of fragments of identity, narrative,…
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As the Strindberg Cycle enters its final weekend at The Cutting Ball Theater, I’m realizing I have done so much guest blogging that I’ve totally neglected to post on my own site for ages. So here are the six pieces I wrote for the permanent Chamber Plays website that Cutting Ball has created with the…
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Megan and I are pulling together found text for the incarnation of Helen we’ve come to call “The Face,” who speaks only in language handed down to her through the ages from epic poetry to contemporary academia. This poem is a contender for one of these found text Odes. Helen of Troy by Sara Teasdale,…
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For the last five weeks, I’ve been working with The Collaboratory to devise a new physical theatre piece based on Federico García Lorca’s poem-play, Yerma. We’ve been experimenting as much with our process as with the piece itself, reinventing how we work together virtually every time we walk into the rehearsal room. The Collaboratory (Emlyn…
AMY CLARE TASKER 