{"id":56,"date":"2011-05-13T02:18:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T02:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-05-13T02:18:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T02:18:45","slug":"dramaturgy-of-a-prop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/2011\/05\/13\/dramaturgy-of-a-prop\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramaturgy of a Prop – Report from the set of ‘Sleep No More’ by Katie Flemming, ’09"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"headshot-fleming\"<\/a>As a student, I had been torn between doing dramaturgy and props, but as graduation approached I decided to\u00a0pursue\u00a0props. \u00a0Punchdrunk- a British\u00a0promenade\u00a0company I remembered from my time in London was coming to the ART, which was a huge part of my\u00a0decision\u00a0to\u00a0apply for\u00a0in internship there. \u00a0I worked on many shows while at the ART, but this company was my favorite and we talked about me working for them in the future. \u00a0Around February 2010 Punchdrunk confirmed they were\u00a0transferring\u00a0the show, Sleep No More<\/em> to NY, and offered me a position starting in June 2010. I accepted! \u00a0 In the meantime, some of the more exciting short term projects I did were propping I Do, I Do<\/em> at Westport Playhouse, and\u00a0freelancing\u00a0in NY. \u00a0I even got to make some props that hit Broadway!
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I started shopping for Sleep No More in September, 2010.\u00a0We had to build the show pretty much bottom up with no props stock behind us. \u00a0It\u00a0has been an amazing way to become more familiar with shopping in the\u00a0tri\u00a0state area and get\u00a0comfortable\u00a0behind the wheel of a box truck! I also really enjoyed shopping for a ten page props list; some needs were specific and some were so broad I was able to use my\u00a0knowledge\u00a0of the characters, stories and period to make design\u00a0choices.<\/p>\n

I’ve been working full time on the set of Sleep No More<\/em> in NYC for 11 months now, and it’s been hugely successful. They\u2019ve let me take July off to go to Au Brana workshop, a three week physical theatre workshop in France. Through the month of July, Au Brana proposes an intensive investigation into modes of storytelling and material generation for performance. The residency is led by the members of OBRA theatre Co. in association with two innovative and experienced theatre makers, Matej Matejka and Leo Kay.<\/p>\n

I returned to Sleep No More<\/em> full time in August and was offered a position on Mikhael Garver’s year long project Fornicated from the Beatles<\/em>, which he has already workshopped at the Oberon at the A.R.T. and a club in Brooklyn. Mikhael trained under Anne Bogart at Columbia, assistant directed Sleep No More<\/em> in Boston, and focuses mostly on installation\/ site specific theatre where the audience wanders multiple simultaneous original scenes.<\/p>\n

I’m also working on the side, dressing film sets, buying artifacts for galleries, and working on developing my own future projects. Although I’m not doing dramaturgy directly, my props\/set job at Sleep No More<\/em> is definitely about researching what belongs in the world of the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a student, I had been torn between doing dramaturgy and props, but as graduation approached I decided to\u00a0pursue\u00a0props. \u00a0Punchdrunk- a British\u00a0promenade\u00a0company I remembered from my time in London was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/dramaturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}