This past spring, I had the rare pleasure of being invited to document the behind-the-scenes drama that went into building a main-stage play. HartBeat Ensemble extended an opportunity to me to blog the experiences of them finally bringing their play, Flipside to fruition, on a larger scale. For about 6 months, the creative undertaking allowed me to be able to tell a “day job” to kick rocks and I got to see what truly makes actors tick; Their methods, their frustrations, their elation whenever they would experience a nervous breakthrough… It was like reality television…

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Audience turnout for this past Thursday, Friday and Saturday Flipside performances was great. As the play comes to a close, people are scrambling to take in the show to see the word-of-mouth buzz for themselves.

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… I’m simply waxing philosophic about how aware I’ve become since being commissioned to help work on relaying the behind-the-scenes action of Flipside. I came of age in the 80′s during the height of the Reagan administration’s “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign, so I’ve always had some semblance of knowledge about the War on Drugs campaign and its impact on communities however, since working with Flipside and having a glimpse into its whole process, it was never something at the forefront of my mind…

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This past Wednesday Flipside’s lead playwright and Co-Artistic Creative Director of HartBeat Ensemble, Julia Rosenblatt was featured on Hartford’s Independent Media Collective’s show RadioActive.

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This past Friday and Saturday I decided to take in my third and fourth viewing of Flipside because quite frankly, once just wasn’t enough. Friday generated a good turnout, especially since several exciting events were taking place in Hartford that evening.

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