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Game night part 2

Game night. Betrayal at house on the hill.

Visualizing a song cycle

I’ve been grappling with the structure of Serenade for a couple of months now. I’m living with the poetry, looking up a lot of words (!) and trying to make up a meaningful meta-narrative that will link the poems together. I’ve just posted a mental storyboard for the first two songs. I’m refining the subsequent songs and they all fall into the story that is being set up here. A couple of things to note:

-this is an insight into how this song cycle works for me. Probably not the “scholarly” approach and possibly heretical in nature.

-This technique of visualizing aids with memory and helps me add meaning to each word.

-When I’m on stage, all of this will be forgotten and I’ll just sing the music. If I have practiced and worked hard enough, the feelings that I feel in practice will come out in my performance and voice.

- I am putting this out there to share with any collaborators on this show and as a continuation of my “serial killer” method of characterization and acting practice. I used to do this in essay books and now I like to use tumblr.

- I’ve missed doing this with a number of shows due to very late hiring and bouncing right into rehearsals. Here I am four months out from the performances and I have delicious space to dig in and come to the collaboration with some robust opinions.

- I am always open to changing these ideas. The story that we will share on stage has to be a collaboration of all the artists and nothing I say here can’t be undone.

#benjamin britten #Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings #analysis

Britten- Serenade for Tenor, Horns and Strings; A mental storyboard.

#benjamin britten #Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings #storyboard

The 6-month leadtime

My first “Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings” will take place in October,2018. For 3 months I have been learning notes and rhythms and doing some light analysis. Over the next months, I return to my serial killer book to dive deep. Here is what I want to explore:

#roleprep #benjamin britten #Serenade for tenor horn and strings

So I made a thing with The People’s Theatre of Denver. I think it is a good thing, but I’m still a little confused about what it is. When I think about it, all I want to do is make more of it. Tumblr. Where I share my insecurities.

I found my old notebook from the first time I sang the Duke. It helped for me to write out the story. I’ll be posting more of these as I clean out the paper!

#duke

DM Values

DMs make the world. We make the rules and the framework. We collaborate with the players on the story.

#dm

Player Values

After a lot of years away, I need to go back to my roots. I believe that rolling up new characters is a good first step to familiarize myself with player options. At first these characters will be single class, in the future I will explore multi classing.

This is not a min/max exercise, this is about building well realized characters that may not be optimal, but will be final and unique to play.

#5e player values

DM Values

The overland map is a revelation. It supports the calendar (which is law) and adds danger in terms of random encounters.

#dungeon master

Initiative sadness

#chult

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