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Amorphis. “Alone.” Am Universum. Relapse Records, 2001.

Amorphis. “Better Unborn.” Elegy. Relapse Records, 1996.

Amorphis. “Captured State.” Am Universum. Relapse Records, 2001.

Amorphis. “Day of Your Beliefs.” Far From the Sun. Nuclear Blast, 2004.

Amorphis. “Grieve Stricken Heart.” Am Universum. Relapse Records, 2001.

Dream Theater. “Space Dye Vest.” Awake. Eastwest Records America, 1994.

Dream Theater. “Voices.” Awake. Eastwest Records America, 1994.

Great Big Sea. “Barque in the Harbour.” Sea of No Cares. Rounder, 2002.

Miyagawa, C. (1997). Yesterday’s window. In E. Lane & N. Shengold (Ed.), Take ten: new 10-minute plays (pp. 179-189). New York: Vintage Books.

Opeth. “Hours of Wealth.” Ghost Reveries. Roadrunner Records, 2005.

Opeth. “The Leper Affinity.” Blackwater Park. Koch Records, 2001.

The East Village Opera Company. “When I Am Laid in Earth.” East Village Opera Company. EVOC, 2005.

**Please note that the text of “Yesterday’s Window” can be found in “Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays” listed above.**

Deciding where scenes, or moments, began and ended was easy – the script called for light changes to denote these.  Every time music is playing, (except the first and last songs) lights are also changing and we are transitioning between scenes.  As it’s listed, the music given with each scene is the music that is playing at the beginning of the scene.  “Up” tells when lights are being lit, “down” tells when lights are being turned out, and I give a word or two to describe the scene to keep things straight; this is also the label I gave to each specific cue on the light board.  I also list here the lighting positions (i.e. highs, head-highs, etc.)

1.  Dream monologue: backlit cyc (cyclorama) white –> lights up amber on September from sides and above, down white………………..intro of “Space Dye Vest” playing under monologue

2.  Apple:  up red circle on cyc behind September, up high amber, dim opposite side……happier music, maybe piano…..”Barque in the Harbor”

3.  Sept. silent:  down red and ambers, up head-high pinks, up overhead reds……..slidy filler music….”Grieve Stricken Heart”

4.  Sad:  down pinks and reds, up blue overheads w/viney patchy gobo, center on Norma……spider music…..”Voices”

5.  Story:  down blue, up lavender cyc, up orange/red overheads on Sept……..dreamy shifty music…..”Captured State”

6.  Immie:  down lavender and orange/red, up yellow cyc, up pink head-highs………more looming-doom type music (faster transition)………”Alone”

7.  Life delivery:  down yellow and pinks, up blue over head, up orange box booms……..maybe saddish?…….”Hours of Wealth”

8.  Voice, moons:  down orange and blue, up black & white line/spiderweb gobo Martin on cyc, up lavender overheads, up green box booms, (up dim green cyc)……..gloom and doom music……”Leper Affinity”

9.  Last delivery:  down gobo lavender and green, up dim yellow cyc, up pink pipe ends, up red overheads……floating music……..”Day of Your Beliefs”

10.  Sept. end:  down yellow pink and red, up green spinning line gobo on Sept., up dim orange box booms………quick music……..”Better Unborn”

11.  down green and orange, up orange cyc outlines Sept……….waltz modern opera music…….”When I am Laid in Earth”

“Yesterday’s Window” by Chiori Miyagawa

Cast:
“Woman” – Elizabeth Reed
“September” – Norma Heller
“Delivery Man” – Andrew Bruck

Artist’s Statement:
What happens when a person takes time, or someone they love, for granted, and then loses
them?  What does a mind look like when it becomes stuck in time?  Can the memories of a
lost loved one grow to consume you?  Would you traipse along the edge of insanity just to
see or dance with them again?  All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the
rain.

Acknowledgments:
Thank you so much to Greg Matejcik, Rebecca Daniels, and John Larrance for helping me
figure out how to make this idea into a reality.  Your advice and knowledge were
invaluable to every step of this process; I know you went to extra lengths to make all
this possible.  I would like to extend special thanks to my cast members, to whom I owe a
great debt for going out of their way to assist me with this project.  There were quite a
few hiccups in this process and you both came through for me with both patience and sense
of humor intact.  Thank you also to my mother, Rene Reed, for helping me brainstorm ideas
about the deeper concepts behind this play (and for running lines with me on the last
night of break).  I would also like to thank my housemates and friends for supporting me
through all the late and stressful nights that went into this project.

[What else I would have included - thanking Selina and the Costume Shop in my Acknowledgements.  It's amazing what you'll forget.]

I was successful with all of my youtube uploading and all of my uploading onto the blog.  The only real hiccup I suppose was that I wasn’t able to burn any DVDs for myself and my performers because the NCAT was out of disks, but I can do that some other time this week.

Organizing the blog site has been a little rocky, I’m just not used to the software at all, I’ve never blogged before and I’m generally not very computer-savvy.  I wanted to have things all organized as separate links on the side bar, and a drop-down menu of different categories is as good as I could do.  Hopefully it’s not too difficult to navigate.

By the way, I finally got to read ‘Dentity Crisis, the play I was thinking of doing before I found Yesterday’s Window.  It was pretty good, pretty crazy.  If people were confused by Yesterday’s Window they would have been cross-eyed if I’d done ‘Dentity Crisis.  I think it would have been too much though, the cast was bigger and as I found, organizing and coordinating people does not always work out so well.  It could have been extremely frustrating.

Oh, and in case anybody’s surprised, scratch still wasn’t working correctly tonight.  I could transfer files from scratch onto the desktop, but could not save anything to scratch.  Not that it really matters at this point, I suppose.

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I’ve been racking my brain over this blog site, but I just can’t figure out how to get the still images John took from the night of our performance to appear on the site.  I’m therefore just putting them into an iMovie file and putting it on youtube.  It’s not what I wanted to do, but it’s all I know how to do.  No Ken Burn’s effect, no music, just the photos all on screen for 5 seconds each.

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