{"id":3181,"date":"2014-04-24T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2015-11-10T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T21:17:16","slug":"director-playwright-interview-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/blog\/director-playwright-interview-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Director-Playwright Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maple and Vine<\/em> <\/strong><\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Jordan Harrison<\/h1>\n

\"Megan\"Megan<\/p>\n

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Director-Playwright Interview Part One<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Rehearsals for CoHo’s production of\u00a0Maple and Vine<\/i>\u00a0began last month, but director and co-producer Megan Kate Ward (pictured) has been thinking about it for over three years! In this interview, she talks with playwright Jordan Harrison about first rehearsals and their shared history of important beginnings at Portland Center Stage’s JAW festival.<\/p>\n

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Jordan Harrison:<\/b> How was the first day [of rehearsal]?<\/p>\n

Megan Kate Ward:\u00a0 <\/b>Great! Yesterday we read through the script and my costume designer was there to fit everyone with costumes. Oh my god, there are so many costumes dude. You\u2019re killing me. (laughter) It\u2019s so great, I\u2019m excited about my cast and designers, but I will say what\u2019s hard, or not hard but different about this show is that I have known this play [M&V] since we were working on FUTURA [ at Portland Center Stage, 2011] and you were about to head to Humana with it and I was like, I want to read it, send it to me! And once I read it I could not stop thinking about that. When was that?<\/p>\n

JH: <\/b>I wrote the first draft is 2009, and the Humana premiere was 2011.<\/p>\n

MKW: <\/b>And it\u2019s been great seeing the script change and grow. I\u2019m so excited to be finally working on it, and tonight we are going to do table work on Act 1 and the timeline and figure out the world you have created for us. I\u2019m nervous as a director that I\u2019m going to skim over something or forget to go over it because I\u2019ve been living with this script in my heart for so long.\u2028\u00a0\u2028<\/b><\/p>\n

JH: <\/b>Right, this is why playwrights probably shouldn\u2019t direct their work \u2013 or at least this playwright shouldn\u2019t \u2013 because I wouldn\u2019t give them time to catch up to all that. It\u2019s a really backstory-heavy play to table work. There is so much to navigate underneath the text.<\/p>\n

MKW: <\/b>Let\u2019s talk about how we met.\u2028\u2028..<\/p>\n

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