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The beating of wings, candlelight and a game
Note: This is a cross-posting from Paul Holmquist’s “Neverwhat?” blog, chronicling his research for directing our spring MainStage production of Neverwhere. This post is by Maren Robinson, our production dramaturg. The beating of wings, candlelight and a game When I started my reread of Neverwhere a couple weeks ago. I noticed the quotes Gaiman gives […]
No. Its Just Door. D-O-O-R. Like something you walk through to go places.
Note: This is a cross-posting from Paul Holmquist’s “Neverwhat?” blog, chronicling his research for directing our spring MainStage production of Neverwhere. This post is by Maren Robinson, our production dramaturg. No. Its Just Door. D-O-O-R. Like something you walk through to go places. So a couple of weeks ago Paul emailed me about how Neverwhere […]
First Rehearsal: Instructions, Beginnings and Tribes
Note: This is a cross-posting from Paul Holmquist’s “Neverwhat?” blog, chronicling his research for directing our spring MainStage production of Neverwhere. This post is by Maren Robinson, our production dramaturg. First Rehearsal: Instructions, Beginnings and Tribes At certain first rehearsals there is a sort of alchemy that happens where you look around the table at […]
Beginning with Bravery
Note: This is a cross-posting from Paul Holmquist’s “Neverwhat?” blog, chronicling his research for directing our spring MainStage production of Neverwhere. Beginning with Bravery On a personal note, I have been enjoying this researching and information gathering and the whole evaluation process like a warm blanket. It is an indulgence, in my experience, to really […]
Lifeline needs your help
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Enter the Floating Market… Lifeline is seeking volunteers to work at our 2010 Annual Benefit: Neil Gaiman’s Floating Market on April 19, 2010 the Chicago Cultural Center. We are recreating the Floating Market as conceived by Neil Gaiman is his bestselling book, Neverwhere. There will be food, drink, belly dancers, fire dancers, a […]
The Director’s Cut
Note: This is a cross-posting from Paul Holmquist’s “Neverwhat?” blog, chronicling his research for directing our spring MainStage production of Neverwhere. The Director’s Cut Last night Rob and I got to see Neil Gaiman in the flesh, thanks to a cousin of a friend snagging some extra tickets for the annual Naperville Reads event, featuring […]
Lamia and the Velvets
Note: This is a cross-posting from Paul Holmquist’s “Neverwhat?” blog, chronicling his research for directing our spring MainStage production of Neverwhere. This post is by Maren Robinson, our production dramaturg. Lamia and the Velvets It seems like the interest in vampires and their role in popular culture returns cyclically. There was a recent Op Ed […]
A glimpse into fight choreography
Note: This is a cross-posting from Paul Holmquist’s “Neverwhat?” blog, chronicling his research for directing our spring MainStage production of Neverwhere. This post is by Richard Gilbert, one of the members of R&D Choreography (with David Bareford), our fight designers for the show. A glimpse into fight choreography A long while back, I got a […]
Welcome, Meredith!
Welcome to Meredith Crilly of Chicago Semester Lifeline welcomes new intern Meredith Crilly, who will be with us full-time until early May. Meredith hails from Knoxville, Tennessee and is a junior Theatre and Art double-major at Dordt College in Iowa. She comes to us through the Chicago Semester program which places students from rural colleges […]