Production Case Study: Peter and the Starcatcher

Episode 191: Production Case Study: Peter and the Starcatcher Where do you start with a play? How do you come up with a vision that spans across character development, light, sound, set, costuming? How do you execute on that vision? If you’re one of the hundreds of schools putting on Peter and the Starcatcher this year, tune into this great production case study episode. Show Notes Drama Teacher Academy Peter and the Starcatcher Episode Transcript Welcome to the Drama Teacher Podcast brought to you by Theatrefolk – the Drama Teacher Resource Company. I’m Lindsay Price. Hello! I hope you're well. Thanks for listening! This is Episode 191 and you can find any links to this episode in the show notes which are at Theatrefolk.com/episode191. Okay. Where do you start with a play? How do you come up with a vision? How do you take that vision and turn it into character or light or sound or set or costuming? How do you execute on your vision? If you are one of the hundreds of schools putting on Peter and the Starcatcher this year, sit back and relax. This podcast is for you. I’m talking to the amazing Kerry Hishon – a Theatrefolk blogger extraordinaire. She’s going to talk about her experience directing the show from soup to nuts which – if Wikipedia is to be believed – is derived from the description of a full dinner – from the beginning, soup, to after dessert, nuts. Not bad, eh? Learn something new today. Also, Wikipedia tells me that a similar Latin phrase is “from egg to apple” after a typical Roman meal. See, you didn’t think you were going to listen in and learn something about words. Have I ever mentioned I love words? Uh, enough about me. Okay, let’s get to it. LINDSAY: Hello everybody! I am speaking with Kerry Hishon. Hello, Kerry! KERRY: Hello! LINDSAY: Now, if you are a regular Theatrefolk follower – which you are, of course – Kerry is our blogger with the moistest. Our blog queen here at Theatrefolk recently and our blog is – I’m going to say it – it’s pretty awesome these days and it’s all thanks to Kerry. So, there you go, Kerry. I’m publicly giving you props. KERRY: Amazing! Thank you so much! It’s so much fun! I love doing it and now you can all hear what I sound like, too. LINDSAY: Oh, now there’s a voice! Now there’s a voice with the words which is really funny because I think that the way that you write is very much how you talk. I can totally hear your voice when I read your stuff. KERRY: It really is. I very much write in my own voice so it’s a lot of stream of consciousness and I go back and read it and I’m like, “Wow! That’s a lot of run-on sentences!” LINDSAY: I may cut out one or two exclamation points, too. KERRY: I do that a lot! I write and I talk in exclamation points. We all have our crosses to bear – that’s mine. LINDSAY: That’s right. If that’s yours – too many exclamation points – I think that’s a pretty good run. KERRY: Yeah, I’ll take it. LINDSAY: So, we are talking, we’re doing sort of a production case study again here today. I really enjoy these where we sort of get in depth with someone who has done a show and this one I know everyone’s going to be interested in and that is Peter and the Starcatcher. KERRY: Woohoo! Oh, my gosh, it was crazy! Craziness – just craziness. LINDSAY: All right. Well, let’s get into it! KERRY: Yes!