The Chop has had a lot of firsts lately.
First time in a national festival.
First time getting some support to develop a play.
First time meeting Why Not Theatre.
We love those guys by the way.
Its quite serendipitous already, meeting people we are going to be creating beside for the next year and getting along so well. I already feel like we are on a very similar creative trajectory and have like-minded ideas and passions for creating theatre. The Chop has made some new creative allies, which is so important to us.
Anita and I always try to work with as many different artists as possible on our projects. Using the opportunity to steal and blend new ideas and modes of creation into our own methodology. Right now, as a company, we are pretty excited to be honing and specifying what we do, why we do it and how we do it. Taking our mentors teachings, our experiences and past projects and now building a process that is uniquely our own. It is exciting to me that since we began working together around 6 years ago now, Anita and I are still on a similar creative path. She gets a new idea that is incredible to me and we go for it. I have a desire to work with sound design a lot right now, and incredibly she is just as excited. I feel so lucky to have had such a smooth working relationship for so long that just keeps growing.
Yesterday, in the space, we got clear on how to begin this project and what our summer is going to look like. Today, we are going to start asking questions. Next blog entry, I'll go into detail about 99/100 (the new show) and how we plan to travel Canada asking folks what they want to see in a play.
Okay, off to the office.
