The Trial

Though MBCT is taking a respite from producing works, Miriam is not! She is currently the Assistant Director for The Trial, the first school show at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Directed by Kristin Horton, it is the Steven Berkoff version of Kafka's novel. The costumes, set, lighting, and music are pretty amazing!

Joseph K, a bank manager, wakes up one morning to find two guards in his bedroom. He's arrested, not told why, and thrown around a dizzying bureaucratic system. Everyone he meets seems to know his business and have a tidbit of advise to help him get to the next level... but the levels are infinite, and the advise borders on nonsensical.

Ticket information:
* $10 for the public, free with an NYU ID
* http://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/69837

Ideas are Brewing

Grad school is intense. Grad school is not easy. Grad school is secretly kind-of fun.

MBCT will only benefit from all the rich ideas grad school provides. And already, the next show is being formed, ideas are being tossed around, and words are finding their way to the page.

The next MBCT play, Ladies and Gentlemen, is well on its way to formation!

MBCT has her nose in the books

MBCT supporters,

I have been accepted into NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a focus on Theatre Directing, specifically adapting classic stories for the stage and physical theatre.

Due to my studies, MBCT will be taking a break from producing. The next show was officially announced at MEDEA: a Tragedy of Revenge's cast/crew party (but not yet to the public, so for now it's still a secret), and I am so excited for such an amazing project. Instead of going ahead with it this fall, it is deferred until further notice. This means more time to research, write, and focus on the project.

Until then, MBCT is happy to continue the discussion about classic stories for a modern audience: How do we continually reinvent these plays without exhausting them? How can our bodies and voices train to tell the stories? How big and bold can we tell these tales?

So go out there and watch some theatre! Support your local companies, donate to your favorite houses, stand and shout "BRAVO!" when you love a show! Directors, playwrights, actors, designers, stage managers, ushers, technicians, administrators all depend on both your physical and financial support.

Thank you,
Miriam Tobin

MBCT
Artisitc Director (and now grad student!)
mbct@tobins.org


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angst

It's always sad when a show ends. The family you've built for the past couple of months breaks apart, the costumes you've lived in are washed and put away, the hair is uncurled, the lights are taken down, the extra postcards are archived, the...

... And you go back to work and wonder "what now?" How do you slip back into the real world after going through something so extraordinary? How do you adjust back to your individual routine after sharing so intimately with a community?

Theatre grips you with its claws and squeezes you from the inside out, and then one day it just lets go... and you're on your own again.

So that's why I'm at it again -- reading, researching, and writing. The next MBCT show is in preparation for a fall show. It's a story of angst, anxiety, nail-biting nerves, and impatience. The characters whine and moan and pray aloud. Nature vs. domesticity. Want vs. action. City vs. country. Happiness vs. indifference.

MEDEA Has Begun!

Last night, previews for MEDEA; a Tragedy of Revenge opened. The actors were stretched, the lights were focused, the costumes were starched, the audience was perched on their seats... and off we went!

It was a wonderful opening. You could feel the tension in the room... the audience not moving, listening for every word, watching and letting the story flow along. Medea raged, Jason pleaded, the Nurse predicted, Creusa mistook, Glauce struggled, and the Chorus Leader witnessed. The women sang in beautiful harmony about the horrors they saw, and the notes floated above the intensity of Medea's wrath.

Tickets may be bought at smarttix.com or at the box office: CSV, 107 Suffolk Street, NYC

the beginning of the end...

Today is the first day of the last week of rehearsals.

Tomorrow is the first run before the slew of runs that happen before tech.

We're off and running.

Stand back, world, there's a MEDEA coming at you.

Hey everybody! Apparently the gods do not look favorably on the NY/NJ area tonight. So, because of inclement weather we are canceling the party! Boo! we're heartbroken. Our cry is "a wail of pain, pain and deep sorrow!" (It's a line from the play. See MEDEA and remember this joke, and perhaps you'll chuckle.) There will be ANOTHER party scheduled, however, and it will be indoors. Rain is good for some things, but not for outdoor parties. See you at the theatre!