TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE!

Tickets are now available for all performances of Home! Get them here before they're gone.

THANK YOU

Lots of thanks and love to all of our donors:

Kathryn Appleton
Leigh Bashor
Haley Blair
Lewis Blair
Jo Bowker
Christina Burck
Lucy and Ridge Culver
Alba Dehli
Gouri Edlich
Kate Gagnon
Andrew Irving
Aaron Karp
Arlene and Hillel Karp
Joshua and Rona Karp
Katie Lupica
Maddie Maupin
Todd Miles
Gabe Miner
Daniel Mitura
Eva Peskin
Deborah Ryan
Pauline Shender
Peter Stults
Kathleen Watson
Sarah Waxman

Make your donation right now at indiegogo.com/homeanewplay!

IndieGoGo

Home has officially launched its fundraising campaign!

Go to our IndieGoGo page to help us reach our fundraising goal.

Any amount you're able to give will make a huge difference in making Home all it can be.

THANK YOU!

Impromptu Photo Shoot

At the end of rehearsal tonight, we held a quick and dirty photo shoot. Our cast members, who had no warning that this would happen, were great sports. The beginning of the fruits of our fully successful labors:

Fundraiser!

We've all been hard at work writing our script and continuing to develop the piece with our full ensemble.

And to let you all in on the process, we'll be holding a Workshop Fundraiser on July 31 at Drama Book Shop (250 West 40th St) where you'll get to join the process! Click here for more information.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

"Tonight, we're gonna solid stuff."

So spoke Garrett Blair, and so did the creative team in an effort to start molding all of the great material we generated in the first weeks of rehearsals into a cohesive theater piece of its own.

Next step: script writing!

Points of Frustration - the gift of workshops

Creating a new work through an ensemble-based creative process begins with great excitement and moments of marvelous inspiration. Yet once we generate a substantial amount of new material, the task of shaping that material into a cohesive work often times becomes very hard and extremely frustrating, like being forced to bang your head against the wall.

Frustration in a healthy creative process has to do with admitting that we don't know. When, collectively, we feel like the path ends and no one knows the next step, all that inspirational fuel from the beginning of the process runs out and we all look around wondering what in god's name we are going to do next. What have we gotten ourselves into?

Not to be confused with argumentative frustration, which is fleeting and often arises in the heat of debate, workshop frustration comes when you have to deal with the fact that creating art means embracing failure.

But in those moments of frustration, we work. No idea is too stupid, no comment unimportant. No one knows from where the next moment of inspiration will come. So we throw out into the mix whatever comes to mind, and most often a single word, phrase, or idea galvanizes the entire ensemble. Everyone says "Yes!" and suddenly a whole new trajectory emerges.

Last night our creative team endured a long evening of frustration. We argued, we were silent, we wrote down anything we could think of. And then it came, that moment when a phrase brought together all our ideas and allowed us to shape the next step in our process.

Points of frustrations are gifts of the creative process. They keep us honest and focused on creating the strongest story and most specific work. They force us to find the next moment of inspiration, and like finishing a long hike or run, on the other side of the frustration is a sense of accomplishment that helps to fuel the next stage of the process.