As I just mentioned, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was born in 1947 as the brainchild of a group of theatre artists who were rejected from the fledgling International Festival and responded to that rejection by, in essence, giving it the finger. They came to Edinburgh, they found their own venues,...
I am a snob. Five years into my association with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and having just completed the second successful Festival with the venue company I co-founded and manage, I admit this: I have to grit my teeth to keep from correcting the lovely, hard-working, earnest, theatre-loving, innovation-encouraging people...
Been a while…today we’re going to talk to New York-based lighting designer Natalie Robin. Take it away, Natalie! I was a dancer from childhood. And then started doing theater in middle school and high school. I thought I wanted to be a director, but I always gravitated towards design. In...
In 2008, I needed an internship to fulfill the requirements for my MFA program in theatrical design & technical production. I didn’t take the bait on Santa Fe. I wanted to go abroad, and I’d heard something about a little festival in Scotland, and so I blindly cast applications around...
2AMt is a wonderful community of artists from all over the theatre spectrum, but we think it’s high time to give designers a little extra love–so we’re going to check out the big talent and bigger brains of some special designers in a series of designer spotlight posts. This time...
2AMt is a wonderful community of artists from all over the theatre spectrum, but we think it’s high time to give designers a little extra love–so we’re going to check out the big talent and bigger brains of some special designers in a series of designer spotlight posts. First up...
Quick: how many theatre pieces have you seen with the word Project in the title? Quite a few, right? Maybe you’ve been involved in one. I have. And almost everyone knows about The Laramie Project. The word Project is often an indicator of devised work–pieces created by an ensemble rather...
Earlier this month, I spent three days indulging in an activity which is a rare luxury for a technician who works in small theatres: a complete cleaning and inspection of our lighting inventory. We went top to bottom–every single lens barrel was taken apart, every lens cleaned, every reflector checked,...
While we’re putting together some audio treats from my adventure at the Hollywood Fringe, here are some visual tidbits–photos from the first couple of days of the first annual festival.
It’s a familiar sight for any Edinburgh Festival Fringe veteran: an improvised stage on the town’s main street, with a gathering crowd gawking at the performers while smiling minions press flyers into the spectators’ hands. What’s different is that this is Hollywood Boulevard. My first experience with a theatre festival...
