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At first glance, members of the East Piney Grove Baptist Church choir from Sanctified seem to be the ones in need of spiritual uplift. The youngest, a college-aged brother and sister, slouch in their chairs and pick fights with each other. One of the matrons disrupts the rehearsal with biting, yet hilarious complaints, and the choral director of the small, rural black church in South Carolina plays piano well enough but can’t read music. She also has a little drinking problem. [Read more...]
It was mid-October, the air was crisp, the leaves were changing and the people in Sidney Harman Hall were metamorphosing. I was an observer in Matthew Wilson’s Master Class for actors, and the long sequence of “exercises to warm up the neck” was a dead giveaway: this workshop was going to be as physical as it was vocal and mental. Participants were gathered in a rehearsal room in the basement of Sidney Harman Hall for a six-hour immersion in Commedia dell’Arte. [Read more...]
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