style over substance: dara weinberg: blog

an investigation of forms theatrical and otherwise

  • The annual Indy Convergence awaits you.

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  • Projects:

    May: NYC through May 9. Developing a script about the Antioch College student strike of 1973.
    May 9-18: Vacation.
    Memorial Day Weekend: San Antonio & Brownsville.
    End of May: Vancouver.

    June: Travel down West Coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles. Teaching another chorus workshop on a new subtopic: not movement, but the choral voice.

Review Quotes

On A Vast Wreck (2006):
” In a production reminiscent of early Actors Gang efforts, director Weinberg directs a heavily made-up and garishly attired ensemble to tumble and cartwheel through a noisy, acrobatic interpretation that’s heavy on pantomimed sex and out-loud thinking. The strength of Weinberg’s production lies in the energy of her ensemble and Chow’s simple but effective costuming, Closs-Farley’s gargoylish makeup and Jenkins’ haunted-house light plot. -” Steven Mikulan, LA Weekly

“Dara Weinberg’s direction, which practically choreographs it [AVW], reinforces Theatre of Note’s reputation as an exciting cutting-edge house.” - Laura Hitchcock, CurtainUp Los Angeles

On Brandohead (2006):
“The epically opaque “Brandohead” is one for the surrealist books…merging scabrous absurdity, Mayan myth, industry satire and a giant cranium of the ultimate Method actor…Robert Wilson was never like this.” – David C. Nichols, Los Angeles Times

On The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell (2007):
“Blake’s hell is a land of forbidden pleasures, an antithesis to heaven’s stoic morality: Both are on the stage, melding into each other…” – Steven Leigh Morris, LA Weekly

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