Finding Our Way into the Questions
New World Performance Lab- our mentors- recently procured a new performance space. It’s located at the Balch Street Community Center. It’s a beautiful place, but it needs cleaned up. That’s where Heads Up Productions came to help. We spent our Saturday morning helping New World prepare their space for occupancy. If you’d like to help, [...]
The Market Path in Highland Square (next to Chipotle) is hosting Heads Up Productions’ Summer Series, a cycle of hour-long performances devised by Heads Up company members. Each month from June-August will feature a new program consisting of a collection of short, interrelated pieces created by the actors. The Summer Series will takes place on [...]
Members of Heads Up Productions spent the day at Canal Park, home of the Akron Aeros, providing usher and hospitality services as part of a fundraiser for Nazareth Housing. Nazareth purchases and rehabilitates homes for ownership by low-to-moderate income families. Nazareth assists with the rehab work, financing, client financial literacy and other aspects of preparing [...]
Recently I attended a workshop with Mythologist Michael Meade. It was entitled, “Initiated Soul, Awakened Self.” The workshop involved drumming & songs, stories and moments of deep, intense communion. It struck me how closely our work as a theatre company coincides with his work as a mythologist. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Western theatre [...]
Blasphemer. Heretic. Sodomite. We got called a variety of names over the last two months. (Some more deserved than others.) We got protested. We even got a death threat. An actress was hurt backstage during the first 20 minutes of a 2 hr and 10 minute play. She had to go to the hospital, not [...]
