I’ve been a bad blogger this summer as we’ve prepared Headwaters: Birth, Death and Places In-Between for production.  My apologies – we transferred much of the blogging energy to our facebook page for the show, so perhaps you’d like to visit it: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Headwaters/130791476935722?v=wall&ref=t The show is up and running, and it’s marvelous.  Lots of information [...]

On March 13, a group of new Headwaters performers experienced the curious initiation rite of the Talent Inventory.  Because Headwaters operates under the y’all come philosophy – if you want to be in the show and can make the time commitment, you’re in the show, and we’ll find the right role for you – we [...]

Monday, January 25, 2010 was the official start of Headwaters season in Sautee Nacoochee.  We gathered in SNCA’s Community Hall for a delicious meal (yay Stovall House!) and a delightful set of shared stories – this was our fourth annual "Long Winter’s Night of Stories," where we collect stories for upcoming productions. Previous Headwaters cast [...]

An opening weekend to remember, with genuine hilarity, tearful reunions, and a great leap forward by the performing company.  A middle weekend with surprises and changes – get well soon, Amber – and a stronger set of performances every time.  And now we head into the final weekend, which will, in all likelihood, blow the [...]

We’re running through Headwaters: Birth, Death and Places In-Between with lights now, and it’s beginning to come together as a show.  There are still elements missing – costumes don’t come until Monday – there’s lots of line memorization still to be done, and a big horse puppet to complete, but last night Jerry Stropnicky and [...]

We have reached the stage in Headwaters rehearsals where the whole production gets assembled.  Until Tuesday 6/23 all rehearsals had been scene rehearsals.  On Wednesday the 24th director Jerry Stropnicky assembled the first act, following a movement rehearsal with Celeste Miller.  The next night, Thursday, we assembled the second act, with more movement rehearsal preceding [...]

Headwaters: Birth, Death and Places In-Between is well underway.  Rehearsals began on Wednesday, May 27 with a reading of the script, which caused changes from the playwrights almost immediately – nothing like hearing your words aloud to let you know what makes sense and what doesn’t.  The second night of rehearsals was a visit from [...]

This past weekend, April 17-19, the creative team for Headwaters convened in Sautee Nacoochee to make significant progress on Headwaters: Birth, Death and Places In-Between.  So many accomplishments, which to name?  Taking the script apart and putting it back together again, yes.  Meeting one another and coming to know how we collaborate, yes.  Bringing as [...]

Headwaters, the great community story performance that takes place at the Sautee Nacoochee Center each summer, is an act of collective will.  People who have a creative spark gather together and over the course of several months create and perform a play that is truly unique to this Goodly Portion of Beautiful Northeast Georgia.  It [...]

The work has begun to create an all-new version of the community story play about life in a Goodly Portion Of Beautiful Northeast Georgia. Headwaters for 2009 will carry the sub-title Birth, Death and Places In-Between, and will have stories of families and friends, in-laws and outlaws, trials and triumphs.  Playwrights Jo Carson and Jerry [...]