music and tales
On a periphery from evil clowns, we’re going to feature the closest thing to an evil clown character i’ve made. Today’s track is from another show i wrote and toured in the States (It’s actually slowly gearing up for another […]
In 1908, 31 years before the movie The Wizard Of Oz, when the Oz books were fresh and the Harry Potter of their day, an astonishing multimedia show involving live actors, film and hand tilted magic lantern slides toured the […]
One old genre of theater i am absolutely fascinated with is the old Italian and French Commedia Dell’arte, where travelling theater troupes went town to town performing improvisational comedy plays before the crowds. Instead of the written comedies of the Greek and […]
The past week’s discussion on Tragedy was definitely more for me than for you. Most of what i learned and ruminated on were not put down in these posts, as i would research, write and only afterwards, at night, really […]
He wants the two of you to be able to do it, but not get too close. Is he me in my 20s? No. Bertolt Brecht, for the non thesbian among you, is a reknowned German theater director from the […]
Today we’re going to look at another show which i wrote sometime back, The Fallen. It’s a very different animal than the Steampunk Opera, but it too is a theater piece. It’s performed by 2 singers, 10 dancers and features […]
You know, since this blog is about the making of a Steampunk Opera (1 song short of finishing the 2nd Act. There will be 4 Acts, and i am also taking a break to muse over what i’ve done and […]
I am starting this blog in order to declare my intention to make a Steampunk Opera and to document the process. Hi. My name is Paul Shapera and I make music under the name Mocha Lab. I will be posting […]