Karen Hines
iPhoto caption: For In the Soil Arts Festival: Karen Hines, Deanna Jones, Yolanda Bonnell.
At In the Soil Arts Festival, process is everything
“There’s an electricity in the air when presenting work in progress,” says theatre artist Karen Hines. “There are thrills and spills. It’s exhilarating seeing things that aren’t finished yet. You don’t know where it’s gonna go, but that’s not even the point of the evening. The point of the exercise is theatre, and there’s nothing more alive than something that will never happen exactly that way again.”
iPhoto caption: The Jubilant in rehearsal. Clockwise from top left: stage manager Kaelee Brassard-Welch, director Kimberley McLeod, designer Nancy Perrin, assistant director Dan Stanikowski, performer Bethany Joy Radford (on two screens), props master Valerie Bonasso, playwright Elena Eli Belyea (centre). Photo by Kaelee Brassard-Welch.
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iPhoto caption: Karen Hines. Photo by David Leyes.
“The show must go on” is not true. We could have laid this one to bed. But I think it’s been a real treat for us to rally around this little project, embrace this humble medium, and make something.
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