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Patrick Keating

Maiko Bae Yamamoto

Andreas Kahre

Noah Drew

Adrienne Wong

Barbara Clayden

Alex Ferguson

Ilena Lee Cramer

Erin Wells

James Long

what we do

Rumblesque

A short play illustrating the search for those moments that help catch a glimpse of things outside themselves

Characters

N: a director

B: a costume designer

Scene opens on the end of what seems to have been a full and lengthy production meeting; a model of a set, papers, schedules, scripts and costume sketches litter the table.

B: So... all the research I’ve done, every picture I’ve seen... he’s always got a pen sticking out of his chest pocket... just in case he got another brilliant idea, you know, and he had to write it down.

N: A pen.

B: Yeah, so I thought that, you know, we could get this pen and in all his costume changes he’d have, like, the same...

N: Great, great...

He looks up and to the left and heads for the door. Stops. Turns.

N: How about not the pen so much as where the pen was.

B: ... oh... so like an ink splotch in the corner of the pocket say...

N: No, no... more like the shadow of the pen or the shape of where the pen used to be...

B: ...

The End

I don’t know that I succeeded in creating that shadow, but I see the desire to even think about it as a very Rumblesque moment. Rumble, from the beginning, has sought to explore the otherness of things, to catch a glimpse of where things were... to better understand where things are and where they may be going. Pairing of opposites, stylization and attention to detail are all part of the mix in a Rumble endeavor. The question is always asked—what is it that we can do that goes beyond, that tells a story without using words... instead using space, lights and...?

I figure it’s all about learning and growing as we go along... and the search for those