Megan Cohen
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I’ve been doing some image research, looking at neo-classical representations of Helen, and today I came across this: “According to the Roman author Pliny, the ancient Greek painter Zeuxis could not find a woman beautiful enough to represent Helen of Troy, the archetype of the feminine beauty, so he picked the best features of five virgins to compose…
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I’m back from Directors Lab West! Helen of Troy is back! My days of hyper-dreaming with the brilliant Megan Cohen are back! Every Saturday in June, Megan and I are back in our strange, surreal Helen-land, in which all things are possible and we’re going to take over the world. No kidding, it’s true. I…
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Halfway through our second month of writing workshops with Helen, I thought I’d share a little excerpt. I can’t give you much context for it, like what happens before or after; we just don’t know. Megan and I are writing this thing like a disco ball, collecting little bits that reflect something interesting, and sooner…
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Very special thanks to Kirsten Broadbear and Sarah Moser for spending an inspiring afternoon with Helen of Troy and the things that Megan and I wrote down for her to say. It is so much fun to challenge the assumptions of the way I’m used to working. In many new play development processes, the playwright…
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A year and a half ago, Megan Cohen and I sat in the grass in the Marina for hours with a netbook and a copy of Robert Graves’ Greek Mythology and drafted an outline for a one-woman play based on the story of Helen of Troy. Around 9PM, we realized we were freezing and ravenous, so…
AMY CLARE TASKER 