Tag: Ashley Strand

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT, Film, Theater

LET’S GET DIGITAL: Ashley Strand and Katherine Carr film ‘The Book of Mark’

When Wilmington’s Ashley Strand and Katherine Carr set out to film “The Book of Mark,” Strand says they didn’t have anything in mind for the project other than to simply make the best of a bad situation that is the unending black hole of COVID cancellations. “Like everyone else, we are doing our best to make lemonade out of lemons,” he says, “and when the … Continue reading LET’S GET DIGITAL: Ashley Strand and Katherine Carr film ‘The Book of Mark’

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT, Theater

REPETITION AND IMAGINATION: Ashley Strand dives deep once again into ‘King James Live’

  Repetition and imagination. That’s how Ashley Strand says he was able to memorize the massive Biblical text for his two-hour, one-man performance of “King James Live.” Specifically, he’s referring to a technique for leveraging visual memory: “the memory palace.” “What’s interesting is there’s feedback between rote techniques, like the memory palace, and deeper imagination work,” Strand explains. “So when I had to remember the … Continue reading REPETITION AND IMAGINATION: Ashley Strand dives deep once again into ‘King James Live’

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