Hi, we’re the New York Neo-Classical Ensemble. We’re a theatre company in New York City. We’re just completed a workshop of Henry VI (abridged), directed by NYNEO managing director Bill Griffin. It’s a highly abbreviated version of Shakespeare’s War of the Roses trilogy. Our other website is newyorkneo.org This site is generally updated by Stephen Stout, Artistic Director of NYNEO. Other people contribute as well, they’ll typically sign their post with their name. Spinoza said that a man’s duty, when he surveyed the world, was ‘neither to laugh nor to weep, but to understand’. This is also the ultimate duty of the theatre. — —Kenneth Tynan “Positive action means that the actor/character focuses on the success of the enterprise rather than allowing the fear of failure to enter the mind or consciousness – every character plays to win at every moment…. The inclination of creativity – both on stage and in life – is to celebrate and to praise life and existence….. With positive action, the characters hang on not only to the hope but also to the belief that they will get what they want. When they fail to achieve their goals, the effect will be psychologically and emotionally devastating; when they achieve their goals, the effect will be miraculous, exhilarating, and transporting.” - Louis Scheeder, Neo-Classical Training, Training of the American Actor.Tumblr (3.0; @nyneo)http://nyneo.tumblr.com/“L. Do you think that there is a problem with actors, that after a while they forget to be...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/235302053http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/235302053Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:57:31 -0500So we’ve announced (to massive hosannas from the cultural firmament believe you me) our 2010...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/234243632http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/234243632Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:35:00 -0500This will be disjointed.  I’d like to make these more thematically coherent, but sometimes the...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/221096471http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/221096471Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:01:00 -0400“The game of being in a play is that you have to say all the words that are written down and...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/219734442http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/219734442Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:28:18 -0400“Went to a panel yesterday about theatre. Want to guess what the discussion eventually...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/219204637http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/219204637Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:20:10 -0400How do you solve a problem like Ophelia? | Upstaged | Time Out New York: A fairly hilarious article...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/213051369http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/213051369Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:00:55 -0400<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr5rgkiYzd1qz7ll0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>As You Like It Reading.</p> <p>Photo credit: Michael Bartelle</p> <p>Leggings credit: Grace McLean</p>http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/206883748http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/206883748Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:00:00 -0400““This is exactly the time, when things are falling apart, when the economy is bad,...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/206882533http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/206882533Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:58:27 -0400The success of readings and workshops is tough to gauge. Things that work perfectly because our...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/205195992http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/205195992Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:42:00 -0400Matt: It's the right skinhttp://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/205111008http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/205111008Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:22:08 -0400<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqsv9qRyCz1qz7ll0o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Also, trying to figure out how to do a cross-country travelling sequence without a car, road, or country.</p> <p>Time to be clever.</p>http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/201139749http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/201139749Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:53:50 -0400<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqsv3pJdmA1qz7ll0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Editing…both the script and my ideas.  I feel that whenever something is explicitly conceptual you need to constantly be reassessing whether or not the play itself, its plot, dialogue and characters, is up to it.</p> <p>There’s almost nothing worse in theater than a director’s vision defiantly ignoring the in’s-and-out’s of the simple story he’s supposed to be telling.</p> <p><br/>So….yeah, I’m hoping I’m not doing that.</p>http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/201137658http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/201137658Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:50:13 -04001. I have no idea where intermission would go.  There isn’t a in-one scene as directly...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/200379156http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/200379156Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:31:51 -0400<img src="http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqr1ln1gKA1qz7ll0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A more advanced version of what I envision the Duke’s camp in Arden would look like…via <a href="http://away.com/images/outside/200707/tent-city.jpg">away.com</a></p>http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/200327492http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/200327492Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:15:00 -0400I hate cutting Shakespeare.When I cut, I nervously imagine directors much smarter, sharper, and...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/199515002http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/199515002Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:10:00 -0400“The Takeover festival is a form of theatrical velvet revolution in which the old guard vacate...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/199279530http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/199279530Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:30:21 -0400“” There is the possibility of expressive work inherent in the carrying out of many...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/187147816http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/187147816Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:27:18 -0400““I suppose maybe I could use ‘great music’ and make well-constructed dance visualizations of...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/183058339http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/183058339Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:23:49 -0400“This world is not perfect. There’s a reason why people go to church. Same reason why people...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/179358060http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/179358060Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:12:57 -0400“When I wrote that straight dialogue-sounding stuff, that was the stuff that was hard to...http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/179349352http://nyneo.tumblr.com/post/179349352Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:51 -0400