Down below are the characters we explored on Saturday's rehearsal as we tested out the konceit detailed in
Kinderspiel Korrections: Part 2. We used the "dropping-in" exercise I picked up from Larry Sacharow in 2001 to find the characters' physicalities and then the ensemble created a very long but very brilliant composition which staged how these characters might deal with the 4 tropes of child's play that
I wrote about on Friday. Finally, the ensemble spent some time trying to stage Kiran's very first zygotic stab at the play's language, a fabulously demented mix of English words following German grammatical rules, German/English hybrid words, and nonsense words made out of strange English or German compounds. You can read a little bit of this in the
excerpt section of
Kinderspiel's finally posted
show page on stolenchair.org. And while you're navigating away from the site, feel free to take a gander at the production's webpage placeholder at www.kinderspiel.us. (I know, I know, we couldn't get dot-com...)
If you've navigated back to blog (or never left at all), I hereby present to you, in no particular order, the possible dramatis personae for
Kinderspiel:
"Anita" played by Alexia Vernon
"Max" played by Cameron J. Oro
"Heinrich" played by Sam Dingman
"Anna" played by Elisa Matula
"Sylvia" played by Liza Wade White
(You might have recognized some of the above pix. They are all photos or paintings of famous writers, painters, and performers from 1920s Berlin.)
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