WELCOME to The Sapphire’s blog! We are an innovative theatre company offering a wide range of professional performances, programs, and production services. We have proudly served the Indianapolis community since 2008 with professional Performances and Events such as ADULT SWIM at The Children’s Museum and ROMEO + JULIET: The Mobile ShakespearienceTM coming in 2015. We offer Enrichment Programs for adults and Education Programs for youth and schools, such as PICTURE THIS, the award-winning interactive theatre program serving corporations and schools since 1984. And, we create a spectrum of theatre and museum sets, props, exhibits and finishes through our Design + Fabrication Studio, working with companies such as The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Avant Garb, and Theatre Mogul, Inc.
This blog is an on-line extension of our mission to entertain, inspire, and connect in order to enrich the human spirit and contribute to the cultural growth. It is intended to help anyone seeking creative expansion, self-cultivation, life enhancement and a boost to performance skills, whether your career is on or off a literal stage.
As an art form, at its most basic level, theatre requires an actor, an audience, a space and an idea. Essentially, theatre cannot exist in solitude. It’s “medium” is people (as opposed to clay, or oil paint, or a piano). And, to produce professional theatre requires a wide variety of skills, including talent procurement and development, team-building, design, fabrication, event planning, fundraising, marketing, research, and an ever-present entrepreneurial spirit.
With decades of experience on-staff, we have discovered that most theatre techniques have useful applications in everyday life. And now, we’re passing these discoveries on to you, our on-line audience. In this blog, you’ll find tips, tools and techniques from the world of the theatre on topics such as:
- Performance enhancement – tools from the stage
- Leadership development from the director’s perspective
- Theatre games for teams and classrooms
- Helpful hints for households and offices from our production crew
- Team-building techniques
- Healthy, creative environments in classrooms, offices, and home
- Building character – actor techniques used in personal development
- When all else fails, IMPROVISE!
- Designing for Life – tips from the designer’s perspective
- Mental rehearsal techniques
- Stage fright – how to face your fears
- And much, much more!
Whether you are an actor or an architect, a musician or a medical doctor, a president or a pre-school teacher, a lawyer or just living an examined life, this blog will provide ways to understand and improve yourself, your team, and your surroundings using profoundly simple techniques. Theatre is an interactive art form, so we welcome your feedback. Please respond with comments, questions and requests or contact us at directly at [email protected].