First Rehearsal for THE TEMPEST

Last week CSC’s Young Company had their first rehearsal for THE TEMPEST, and a few of our NextGen students decided to come check out what a first rehearsal is all about. 

During the rehearsal the director, Jimmy Maize, welcomed the cast, who include third year M.F.A. Acting students at Columbia University, as well as a few alumni of the Columbia Grad Acting Program. He told them about his different ideas for the concept of this production of THE TEMPEST, which will feature a choreographer as well as a projections designer. The production will work hard at attempting to showcase how relevant a lot of the topics in the play can be for today’s audience, and especially for an audience that will be made up by a large majority of teens in New York City. 

Jimmy talked about how all of the different designers will be used to enhance the play, and what they will be focusing on as the play gets into rehearsal. The cast then read through the script, which has been cut down to 90 minutes. 

The NextGen students followed along with the script, and talked about what they already knew about THE TEMPEST going into the read through, and what they were excited to see performed in the production.

The rehearsal ended with talk of how the process would go for the next few weeks, and with the NextGen students thinking about when they wanted to come observe rehearsals in the future, and about their upcoming interviews with the cast and design team.