Friday, September 12, 2014
In A Late Hail Mary Pass...
...Korean's officially out, so are all hopes of Spanish. Art Hum! You're up!
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
And I And Silence
Silence makes me think of Silence Dogood, who I learned of from National Treasure. It was a pseudonym a young (like, 16 young) Ben Franklin concocted to write into his...brother's...newspaper to express his views on popular culture and politics ect.
The musings of a 16 year old colonial white male apprentice printer, are hardly to be considered worthwhile, and yet Silence spoke with such veracity, she received marriage proposals.
In Naomi Wallace's jarring sketch, we are presented with a reverberation of that tenacity. Two young women, Dee and Jamie, minor offenders locked up in what has become the generationallly, perpetual gray area of adolescence. High School Musical meets Orange is the New Black, this isn't, however. We are also granted glimpses into the lives of the, now, women nine years on - post incarceration.
It's 1959, as Older Jamie actress Rachel Nicks points out...in some nondescript corner of the semi-rural American south. Not a good time or place to be a woman, where old world wealth and status standards still reign. Not a good time or place in history for African Americans, where walking down the street to work means verbal abuse on a good day.
The setting and all of it's trappings create a sort of perfect storm for Wallace's two characters. With a steely undercurrent of the violability of their sexualities and the vulnerability of intimacy, Wallace has Jamie and Dee traverse the crossroads of what it means to be young, broke, and drowning in surroundings suffering the same fate. By the play's tragic end we're left with a Willy Loman sense of remorse, except they don't even get the faithful spouse or regretful kids. A stark, nearly Shakespearean realization sets in, in death - no one will miss these girls.
Surely, no one missed them in life.
The musings of a 16 year old colonial white male apprentice printer, are hardly to be considered worthwhile, and yet Silence spoke with such veracity, she received marriage proposals.
In Naomi Wallace's jarring sketch, we are presented with a reverberation of that tenacity. Two young women, Dee and Jamie, minor offenders locked up in what has become the generationallly, perpetual gray area of adolescence. High School Musical meets Orange is the New Black, this isn't, however. We are also granted glimpses into the lives of the, now, women nine years on - post incarceration.
It's 1959, as Older Jamie actress Rachel Nicks points out...in some nondescript corner of the semi-rural American south. Not a good time or place to be a woman, where old world wealth and status standards still reign. Not a good time or place in history for African Americans, where walking down the street to work means verbal abuse on a good day.
The setting and all of it's trappings create a sort of perfect storm for Wallace's two characters. With a steely undercurrent of the violability of their sexualities and the vulnerability of intimacy, Wallace has Jamie and Dee traverse the crossroads of what it means to be young, broke, and drowning in surroundings suffering the same fate. By the play's tragic end we're left with a Willy Loman sense of remorse, except they don't even get the faithful spouse or regretful kids. A stark, nearly Shakespearean realization sets in, in death - no one will miss these girls.
Surely, no one missed them in life.
Friday, September 5, 2014
Directors and Producers of Work I've Seen Recently
So, my Directing professor posed an interesting question at the top of class and since I'm horrible with on the spot things, I came up with nothing...I wasn't the only one. The question was name all the theatrical directors you know.
So doing my due diligence here is a list of the directors I've got in in my playbill collection. I'm including producers too, because I realize the same question was also relevant to Producing Class. Keep in mind this is only what I had playbills lying around for.
So doing my due diligence here is a list of the directors I've got in in my playbill collection. I'm including producers too, because I realize the same question was also relevant to Producing Class. Keep in mind this is only what I had playbills lying around for.
- And I and Silence -
dir. Caitlin McLeod
prod. Signature Theatre - Juarez: A Documentary Mythology
dir. Ruben Polendo
prod. Theater Mitu/Rattlestick Playwrights Theater - The Correspondent
dir. Steven Brackett
prod. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater - King Lear
dir. Arin Arbus
prod. Theatre For A New Audience - Antony and Cleopatra
dir. Tarell Alvin McCraney
prod.Gable Stage, The Royal Shakespeare Company in Collaboration with the Ohio State University (Jeremy Adams)
asso prod. Maria Goyanes - Love and Information
dir. James Macdonald
prod. NYTW in asso. with Royal Court Theatre - The Long Shrift
dir. James Franco
prod. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater - Phoenix
dir. Jennifer Delia
prod. Nicholas Jabbour, Julie Pacino, Poverty Row Entertainment, Rian Patrick Durham, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater - Inventing Van Gogh
dir. Karla Hartley
prod. Jobsite Theatre - S'wonderful
dir. Tripp Hampton
prod. David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts - Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical
dir. Simon Philips
prod. Allan Scott, Troika Entertainmenrt, Nullarbor Productions Ltd., in asso with MGM on Stage and Darcie Denkert, Dean Stolber Gary McQuinn, Liz Koops, Michael Hamlyn, - Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody
dir. Jim Millan
prod. Michael Mills/Mills Entertainment - Morningside Nights: The 120th Annual Varsity Show
dir. Emily Feinstein
prod. Allie Carieri, Ally Engleberg, Renee Kraiem - Hamlet
dir. C. David Frankel
prod. Tampa Repertory Theatre, Hat Trick Theatre Productions - The Ballad of Hipster McBigballs
dir. Christen Petit Haley
prod. Jobsite Theatre - Night of Power
dir. Kareem Fahmy
prod. Meghan Long (Columbia School of the Arts Theatre) - A Thousand Clowns
dir. Jack Holloway
prod. Hat Trick Theatre Productions - The Physicists
dir. Sina Heiss
prod. Mia Shen - All the Way
dir. Bill Rauch
prod. Jeffrey Richards, Louise Gund, Jerry Frankel, Stephanie P. McClelland, Double Gemini Productions, Rebecca Gold, Scott M. Delman, Barbara Freitag, Harvey Weinstein, Gene Korf, William Berlind, Caiola Productions, Gutterman Chernoff, Jam Theatricals, Gabrielle Palitz, Cheryl Wiesenfeld and Will Trice; Associate Producer: Rob Hinderliter & Dominick LaRuffa, Jr., Michael Crea and PJ Miller - Twelfe Night, or What You Will
dir. Tim Carroll
prod. Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis, Roger Berlind, Glass Half Full Productions/Just For Laughs Theatricals, 1001 Nights Productions, Tulchin/Bartner Productions, Jane Bergère, Paula Marie Black, Rupert Gavin, Stephanie P. McClelland, Shakespeare Globe Centre USA, Max Cooper, Tanya Link Productions and Shakespeare Road - Wake
dir. Mei Ann Teo
prod. Mariana Ortiz - Neville's Island
dir. Gi Young Sung
prod. Hat Trick Theatre Productions - The Meeting
dir. Alan Bomar Jones, Bryant Bentley
prod. Hillsborough Community College - Evening of Shorts
dir. Jack Holloway/Kerry Glamsch
prod. David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts - Jeffrey
dir. Keith Odums
prod. Hat Trick Theatre Productions - Titus Andronicus
dir.Helen Tennison
prod. University of South Florida School of Theatre and Dance - And Then There Were None
dir. Jack Holloway
prod. Hat Trick Theatre Productions - Musings of a Post Modern Romantic
dir Matthew Ray
prod. TRT² - Twelfth Night or What You Will
dir. Julia Flood
prod. Eckerd Theater Company - Hay Fever
dir. David Jenkins
prod. Jobsite Theater - Wicked
dir. Joe Mantello
prod. Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt, David Stone, - The Amish Project
dir. Todd Olson
prod. American Stage Theater Company
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