Archiving Technical Theater History

Ms. Lea Nataf is a Metteur en scène (Director) / Comédienne (actress) at La Compagnie des Atsaras as well as Technicienne Lumière (light Technician) at Théâtre Garonne. She has also been a Marionnettiste (Puppeteer) at Cie Artémisia .

Studied Théâtre - Mise en scène at Université Bordeaux-Montaigne and Formation Technicienne Lumiere ( Lighting Technician) at CSCV in Toulouse, France

Originally from Bordeaux and currently living in Southern France, Lea has had many amazing journeys. We met in Prague 2015 while volunteering for the PQ event. While we were to stand in front of the DAMU café giving directions, answering questions and guiding people around the event, we did spend a great deal of time entertaining one another and bonding in many funny ways.

I am so glad to have gotten to meet Lea and finally after so much time be able to see and speak with her again. I have missed hearing and seeing her laugh.

The audio for this episode is a bit tricky at times. I have done what I can to clear most of it up however there will be points where the levels are a bit off and you will have to adjust your volume. This shouldn’t take away from your enjoyment. Thank you to Lea for her time and energy. I look forward to a return trip to France to see her and experience the amazing work she is up to now.

Without further ado Ms. Lea Nataf

Ms. Dias is a scenographer and photographer living, working and traveling in and around Europe. Originally from Brazil and now living in Spain, Flo has had an amazing journey not only capturing images from some of the recent theater events such as World Stage Design (Taipei, Taiwan), the Prague Quadrennial and Oistat50 in Cardiff, Wales but also of the everyday life. It was fantastic to catch up with her and to learn more about the woman behind the camera and where she would like to go next.

You check out her work at

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/flor_dias/
Flicker - https://www.flickr.com/people/flordias/
Flicker - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hanakosu
Tumblr - http://photoflor.tumblr.com/

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"The life of a play begins and ends at the moment of the performance. It is here that authors, actors and directors express what they have to say. If the play has a future, a chance to last, it can only reside in the memory of those who were present and who have kept a trace of it in their hearts. No form or interpretation is eternal. In theatre a form must be fixed for a short time, then it must pass. As the world changes, there will always be and must always be new and totally unpredictable performances".

Peter Brook

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TheatreTimes.com - THE MAGIC IS IN THE MINIATURE: TOY THEATRE THRIVES ONLINE DURING QUARANTINE

TheatreTimes.com - VR, THEATRE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF IMMERSION

The Stage - Coronavirus: Three more months of lockdown could end our careers, say 35% working in comedy

Playbill.com - Cast of Broadway's Sing Street to Perform Benefit Concert From Their Homes Around the World

Playbill.com - Watch Drew Gasparini's Virtual Concert for We Aren’t Kids Anymore

WhatsOnStage - Six musical releases worldwide performance from isolation featuring casts from the West End, Broadway and more

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Scenography - POP - Palladio Olimpico Project
It is a new initiative of the Municipality of Vicenza to try to make the visit to the Olympic Theater innovative through a narrative model, conceived by Alessandro Baricco and the Scuola H]olden.

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http://www.comune.vicenza.it/.../attrattiv.../teatroolimpico.php

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Avolites - Avolites is here for you

Playbill.Com - Brian Dennehy Obituary

“The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know it was here. Or any of the other places down the avenue. I couldn’t see but a few feet ahead. I didn’t meet a soul. Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That’s what I wanted—to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself. Out beyond the harbor, where the road runs along the beach, I even lost the feeling of being on land. The fog and the sea seemed part of each other. It was like walking on the bottom of the sea. As if I had drowned long ago. As if I was the ghost belonging to the fog, and the fog was the ghost of the sea. It felt damned peaceful to be nothing more than a ghost within a ghost.”

― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night

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Stage Directions Magazine -Testing Company Classifies ETCP Certified Technicians as Essential Personnel

If you are an entertainment technician and are interested and available and interested in being contacted to aid in the effort, please sign up here: etcp.esta.org/helpfightcovid.

Further information from ETCP: https://etcp.esta.org/

WhatsonStage.com - Kiln Theatre will offer free online masterclasses for aspiring creatives during lockdowns.

Playbill.Com - New York City Ballet Launches Digital Spring Season

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