In the Saddle
Posted by DCA Theater on February 3, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, Incubator Series: Vintage Theater Collective
Submitted by Kristin Idaszak, Playwright currently working with Vintage Theater Collective on Lion on the Cheesegrater in the DCA Theater Incubator Series 
As a kid, I wanted to be a detective when I grew up. I carried around a PI kit that my parents got me for Christmas one year everywhere I went. I also grew up idolizing Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall—to me, they were the perfect couple. I didn’t know anything about their off-screen lives. In black and white, and even down through the decades, when they shared a screen it was electrifying to watch. There’s a scene in The Big Sleep where Philip Marlowe (Bogart) follows the beautiful femme fatale Vivian Sternwood (Bacall) to an illegal gambling club. Their confrontation goes as follows:
Who’s Who and How Many
Posted by DCA Theater on February 3, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, The Ghost is Here
Take a look at who’s who in the cast & crew for Vitalist Theatre’s production of The Ghost is Here...
The ladies of the cast…
Yadira Correa as Toshie Mildred Langford as Misako
Darrelyn Marx as Old Woman & Ensemble Eliza Shin as Model & Citizen D
and the gentlemen…
Heart to Heart
Posted by DCA Theater on January 31, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, Incubator Series: Prologue Theatre Company
Monday night was the first DCA Theater Incubator Series Showcase of 2012! It featured Prologue Theatre Company presenting a work-in-progress called I Carry Your Heart by Georgette Kelly.
Artistic Director of Prologue Theatre Company, Margo Gray, welcomes everyone and introduces her company and the play.
For a month, Prologue has been working hard in the DCA Studio Theater and giving us windows into their process via our blog. Then, in last night’s public staged reading, they shared this piece with the world… and got the chance to talk with the audience to hear their reactions afterward.
Talking About Loss
Posted by DCA Theater on January 29, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, Incubator Series: Prologue Theatre Company
Submitted by Margo Gray, Artistic Director for Prologue Theatre Co., currently working on I Carry Your Heart in the DCA Theater Incubator Series 
Art can provide a way to think through an idea that one isn’t ready to consciously process. In I Carry Your Heart, a character who is a poet says, “When I have stuff to process, I write.” As we’ve rehearsed the show, we’ve used poetry to share ideas about the “stuff” in the script that might be difficult to talk about. Loss and loneliness are felt by each character in I Carry Your Heart. Here are excerpts from some poems that have helped us explore the roads these characters travel:
Long Distance II
by Tony Harrison
Though my mother was already two years dead
Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas.
What Came to Me
by Jane Kenyon
I took the last
dusty piece of china
out of the barrel.
Poems About… What?
Posted by DCA Theater on January 28, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, Incubator Series: Prologue Theatre Company
Submitted by Margo Gray, Artistic Director for Prologue Theatre Co., currently working on I Carry Your Heart in the DCA Theater Incubator Series
If I keep talking about poetry, you know it’s because it’s shaped the making of I Carry Your Heart. The poems we read to start rehearsal each day are not random, but are chosen to start all of us thinking about the themes of the play, the ideas we’ll be working on that day, and the world in which the characters live. Here are excerpts from some of the poems I’ve chosen for us to hear. If you had to guess, from reading these, what would you say I Carry Your Heart is about?
How It Adds Up
by Tony Hoagland
Happiness, Joe says, is a wild red flower
plucked from a river of lava
and held aloft on a tightrope
strung between two scrawny trees
above a canyon
in a manic-depressive windstorm.
After Making Love
by Stephen Dunn
No one should ask the other
“What were you thinking?”
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