L. Nicol Cabe

So I’m developing a solo show. This is very different for me. I don’t consider myself an actor, although I do consider myself a writer, director, dramaturg, critic, and other sorts of theatre artist as necessary. But I haven’t been onstage in 3 years or so, and I haven’t created my own material – outside [...]

About a year and a half ago, I began blues dancing. Like most people of my age and nerdiness, I had traumatic experiences in middle and high school that put me off ever exercising again, ever. I’d rather starve myself to be thin than join a gym and work for it. I took a yoga [...]

I have found the best actor in the world. That is insane. I tried finding some information about mimic octopuses (or octopode) in captivity, but mainly found information about them as pets, in aquariums. What I want to know is how much of this behavior is learned based on their environment, and how much of [...]

Take that as a single entendre, if you would. I haven’t written full reviews of shows I’ve seen in awhile because, well, I didn’t need to. At the end of August I saw UMO Ensemble’s “El Dorado.” A piece of weird movement theatre based on European buffoonery, and inspired by actual documents from the conquest [...]

I haven’t blogged about the last handful of movement classes I’ve been to, because I can’t seem to consciously hold everything important that I want to talk about in my head for more than a day. This is really unfortunate, because I feel like the class is having a huge effect on my life. I [...]

I have to sum up two, because its been a crazy week, which includes a fixed bike that I’m going to start riding to work, hopefully. We continue to move and explore in new and crazy ways, trying things with a partner and experimenting alone. We are, however, finally bridging the gap between trying new [...]

I wrote these down in my terrible handwriting, fully intending to post them here, and I keep forgetting to. That actually happens quite a bit — its sort of the downside to having a notebook and periods at work with a lot of free time. So yes, the big one was from the very first [...]

To help test our focus, we’re slowly memorizing parts of this poem: Ulysses (part 1) Alfred, Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and [...]

I am in this class for such different reasons as most of my classmates. I’m a director. I’m not an actor. I’ve said that a lot before. I’m in a class, naturally, full of actors, who are looking for reasons and narratives. I’m not saying I’m more open-minded than they are, because I really doubt [...]

“Oedipus” is a play created by its ensemble cast and crew, based on two of the plays in Sophocles’ Oedipus Cycle — “Oedipus Rex” and “Oedipus at Colonus.” The group spent somewhere between 4 and 6 months working on the project, beginning last winter. In that respect, it is a really daring show — ensemble [...]