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Putting it together

Oct 23, 2011   //   by Kate Powers   //   Coaching Tips, Director's Notebook

Bit by bit

“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” — Knute Rockne

How many hours each week are you working on your dream?  I don’t ask how many hours you temp or wait …

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Gimme five

Jul 22, 2011   //   by Kate Powers   //   Coaching Tips, Director's Notebook

Once upon a time, when I was a little baby director, an artistic director asked me to name five playwrights whose work I particularly admired.  Because I wasn’t prepared, and probably also because I was a little baby director, my mind went blanker than Peter Brook’s empty space and I …

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If we are to make Shakespeare our own again, we must all be put to a little trouble about it.
Harley Granville Barker

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You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate,
And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst;
But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate,
For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate,
Take this of me, Kate of my consolation…
--The Taming of the Shrew, Act II, scene i