It is now nearly six weeks since The Polish Play closed. I went out for drinks this past weekend with many of the PP actors. It was great to see everyone again. Hanging out with them brought the show back to life for me and led me to think that I should finally get around to posting a post-show post.

I was really happy with The Polish Play. It was a project that meant an enormous amount to me personally. It turned out to be more or less exactly what I had hoped and imagined it would be. The response we received from audiences and critics was amazing and I was thrilled that the show was able to extend for two weeks.

I was also really excited by the process of creating The Polish Play. Altogether, I spent four years working on it: from its earliest conception at a temp job, through the adaptation of the script, to various readings and the workshop, and then finally the ultimate production. More than anything else, I think the time that The Polish Play spent in gestation separated it from other projects that I have worked on and led to a richness of detail that would not have been possible otherwise. I have come out of this project firmly committed to the idea of using extended development cycles to create future Katharsis shows.

I am currently mulling over possibilities for the next Katharsis development cycle. I hope to make a decision in the next few months and am aiming to do a workshop this fall and mount our next production in late spring, 2008. Possibilities include an adaptation of a Moliere comedy-ballet, a production of Othello focusing on 19th Century performance techniques or a Tennessee Williams drama. I’ll let you know…