Deaf, dumb and blind boy
He’s in a quiet vibration land.
Strange as it seems, his musical dreams
Ain’t quite so bad.
-The Who
Howdy cast,
At last night’s rehearsal, Anatoly told the full story of the play. Here it is:
Dr. Caligari is searching for immortality. He lost his wife in childbirth and never recovered from it. [...]
Assistant Director Brian Lyke created stop-motion animated movies of the blocking work on Caligari: Alaska.
These are his work product!
Each runs approximately 2 minutes
In the beginning, there was a silent movie. Today, a 70 minute physical drama stands before you. How did we get there?
We established early on that this process was going to be collaborative. In a typical rehearsal, Anatoly sketched out blocking and motivations, the actors worked together and with a choreographer or the A.D. to [...]
Brian Lyke (Assistant Director) is a junior theatre major. Caligari is his third UAF Mainstage show. You might remember him as Alan in “Picnic“, or the stage manager for “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead“. He’ll miss Anatoly a lot. Thanks to the cast and crew. Together we made something cool!
Brian, the Assistant Director, sets up for creating a still-motion animation using the model. Rachel, one of the gypsy/witches passes by.
Photo by Kade Mendelowitz (Designer).
March 22, 2009
