Fringe 2007 - Producers Meetings

It's inspiring to see a room full of people, some of whom I know, most of whom I don't, all ramping up to create the performances that will be part of my favorite part of the Twin Cities theater scene every year...

Love's Prick - A New Ending, and the Next Phase

Busy 48 hours for the workshop and the play - a new ending to the script, and preparations for rehearsals, which begin in two days...

Love's Prick - Ode to Olivia, plus Newfound Friends

Another character peeks up from the scrap heap, and relationships shift around again...

Fringe 2007 - Email Blast

Messages around the state, across the country, and over the Atlantic...

Love's Prick - A Girl In Boy's Clothing & The Clown

Every tribute to "As You Like It" needs a Rosalind, and a Touchstone...

Fringe 2007 - 77 Shows

I tried to be ruthless. Really, I did...

Fringe 2007 - The Single Entendre Award

to Warm Gun productions...

(the tongue-in-cheek Ping Pong Ball Awards return...)

Love's Prick - Thinking Aloud

Ruminating on the new ending...

Love's Prick - Genesis, part 6

How did we get here from there...?

Part 1 - the need for a new play, and my love affair with "As You Like It"

Part 2 - the rough outline of the play takes shape

Part 3 - a production opportunity at Allegheny College

Part 4 - a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board

Part 5 - A look at the real life cast of characters who are going to help me workshop this thing...

Lastly, for now, the end of the beginning

Part 6 -

The play splits in two and seeks a new ending...

How Do You Talk About Blogging?

I've been asked to come to the two Fringe producers' meetings and talk a little about the blogs...

Love's Prick - Genesis, part 5

How did we get here from there...?

Part 1 - the need for a new play, and my love affair with "As You Like It"

Part 2 - the rough outline of the play takes shape

Part 3 - a production opportunity at Allegheny College

Part 4 - a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board

Part 5

A look at the real life cast of characters who are going to help me workshop this thing...

Love's Prick - Play Under Construction

Approaching first rehearsal on a workshop production of a new play funded by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board - Love's Prick, my modern-day riff on the characters, themes and plot points of Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy "As You Like It"

The collective blog of daily (or nearly daily) posts on the struggles and progress have grown from

Part 1

into Part 2

and just this morning sprouted a Part 3

Related are the posts on the play But Not For Love, a plot thread that was part of the larger original version of Love's Prick, but has since been removed.

Heading out to Allegheny College for the start of rehearsals and intensive script development

Blog of the time between visits to Allegheny

The return for tech week and performances

and maybe a nod to what I might be working on next...

A handful of recent theater reviews...

Or The White Whale from Civic Theater

Carousel from Nautilus Music-Theater

Talley's Folly from Behemoth Theater

Zela Wonderland from Sandbox Theater

The TV show, and Fringe on TV

Hitting year five with this year's Fringe spotlight episodes. Meanwhile, a look at where we've been

And now we're calling for video from the national and international Fringers coming to Minnesota

Where the Fringe blogging's at

Thus far, you can peruse

Oh My God, They're Right, I Do Recruit

Applying for the 2007 Fringe -

- T-Minus 2 Days and Counting

- For Complete Artistic Control

- Cheaper Than Starting Your Own Theater

- Applying at the Last Minute (a crash course)

The page turns...

A Death in the Family - Chase Korte

The tongue-in-cheek Ping Pong Ball Awards return...

- Series 1

- Series 2

- Series 3

- Series 4

- a sidebar rant on struggles with technology

The Fringe's Ides of March

Minnesota Fringe - some basic questions and answers

The hilariously irreverent Five Fifths of the Wizard of Oz fundraiser for the Fringe

- Before

- After

and finally, Ladies and Gentlemen...

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Just to Catch You Up

Well, hello again, Blogger.

Back when the Minnesota Fringe Festival was first starting its experiment with blogging in 2003, it used Blogger as its host.

Come 2005, the Fringe programmers decided to bring the whole thing in house.

So, rather abruptly, pre-Google, the blogspot Fringe blogging stopped.

But since there was still some occasional traffic coming from this direction, and the base station still existed, it seemed a shame to just let it continue to languish, as the SCTV comics used to say "untouched and unloved."

So, it's back.

You can still find threads of all this on the internet crossing over on my website www.matthewaeverett.com, the Fringe's site - www.fringefestival.org, or via my MySpace page - www.myspace.com/matthewaeverett.com