Insite

From March 10–14, MSU’s Department of Theatre and Dance will present Homburg, a world premiere production created by faculty and students. Over the next three weeks, Insite will feature excerpts from the journal of production dramaturg Neil Baldwin. These notes provide an insider’s view of the collaborative process involved in creating a newly devised theatrical experience. We begin with an introduction of what Neil calls the “mise en scene”. 

This “born-digital” journal is a work in progress and a work in (and about) process. It was inspired by the request of my colleague, director Jorge Cacheiro, that I serve as the dramaturg for Homburg, Cacheiro’s new adaptation of The Prince of Homburg by German author Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811). I decided to keep track of the show from the moment it entered my life as a responsibility and challenge on October 8, 2008, through its world premiere opening and run at the MSU’s Kasser Theater, March 10-14, 2009.  Read more »