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March 11 - 31, 2021
Warm weather is here - probably not to stay - but I sure am enjoying it while it lasts! A good reason to be grateful to be home where I have windows and not in a windowless theatre all day! Events are starting up in earnest again - check out the full newsletter for all the upcoming events, classes, opportunities and more. And send me your event if you don't see it here!
The next issue will include events through April 7. Submit upcoming events via the link below or by emailing me before Tuesday at midnight. Any questions, comments or feedback? Email me at pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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Streaming online March 14-21, 2021. Tickets here.
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YOUR EVENT HERE
$5 per week for your poster and ticket link in top billing!
Email me to reserve your dates.
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THIS WEEK IN THEATRE NEWS:
from Howlround
Putting Out the American Theatre Dumpster Fire Through White Abolition
by Ann James
From the article:
It is obvious we have a problem in the American theatre. For decades and in many permutations, initiatives by white institutions that reach out to, interview, and hire Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC)—predominantly women—to join theatre environments under the auspices of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) have literally died on the vine all over the country. These programs have not been sustainable over lengths of time due to BIPOC women ending up burnt out, forced to resign, or fired.
Have you read an interesting article about theatre recently? Send it to me! pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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Smith College Department of Theatre New Play Reading Series presents
Acting School by Kathleen Tolan
directed by Cate Boram
Thursday, March 11 at 7:30 PM
“Why act? The world is falling apart.” Based on Olympia Dukakis’ acting classes at NYU in the 60s, Acting School follows Olympia and her six students in the East Village against the backdrop of the Black Power Movement and the Vietnam War. Her intense training methods push the students to face the fears of being human and confront masked truths; working through scenes from powerful plays, including Arthur Miller’s View from the Bridge, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, and more.
Free and open to the public. Register Here.
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Please join us for the Mount Holyoke College Film Media Theater Department's final production of the 2021-21 Season.
Naomi Iizuka's Language of Angels, directed by Michael Ofori, March 10-14, 2021.
While partying with her friends in the deep dark meandering caves of a rural North Carolina town, Celie disappears. What ensues is an investigation of the fate of the friends who outlive her. Naomi Iizuka's eerie play is an exploration of love, loss, memory, guilt, mortality and the intricate web of agency, accountability and fate.
The video is available beginning March 10 at:
There is a $2.95 fee to view.
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Panopera Productions presents Rhapsody, a vitrtual recital
Saturday, March 13 at 5:00 PM and Sunday, March 14 at 2:00 PM
YouTube Premiere
Ten soloists perform some of their favorite repertoire accompanied on piano. Opera lovers will be delighted to hear timeless favorites alongside lesser well-known gems. Tickets are free with a suggested donation of $10.
https://www.panopera.org/post/panopera-presents-rhapsody-a-virtual-recital
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From the New England New Play Alliance:
Virtual Theatre and Podcast
The Depot for New Play Readings presents
Mox Nox
by Patrick Gabridge
March 14, 2:00 pm
In a world of magical realism and rising water, two sisters are reunited at their family home. Mira, the caretaker sister, had to weather her mother’s death alone. She holds every childhood slight so close that she is literally burning from the inside, shedding ashes and embers, as her wife, Amanda, attempts to soothe her. Sister Deedee has returned with her fiancé, Pike, and a memory that is vanishing faster and faster. In a slowly drowning world, everyone is searching for higher ground. The sisters battle to the end, one unable to forget, the other unable to remember. Email depotreadings@gmail.com for a link to stream this free reading.
Hibernian Hall, Onwards Productions, and Seven Generations Video present
The Draft
by Peter Snoad
March 12-18
The Draft interweaves the real-life experiences of 10 young Americans whose lives were shaped and forever changed by the military draft during the Vietnam War. Their stories give voice to the passion, the anguish, the fear, the joy, the inspiration, and the intense personal and collective struggles of a generation. Access to these performances is free. The link to stream them will be activated shortly before the 7:00 pm performance on March 12. Stream here.
tiny_Theater presents
March Madness
now-April 3
tiny_Theatre celebrates one year of performing plays from a closet with March Madness: a one-page play performed live on Facebook every day throughout the month of March. There's no set time for performances (it is March madness, after all). However, if you aren't online when they go live, you can stream each performance after the fact on the tiny_Theatre Facebook page. The New England playwrights featured in this week's performances are:
Privileged Information The Dwarf Problem
by John Minigan
March 9
Daydream #3
by David Beardsley
March 11
French President Albert Francois Lebrun Addresses His (Pissed Off) People
by Erica Furgiuele
March 12
A Character Man's Orbit
by Jim Frangione
March 13
What I Should Have Said
by Erica Furgiuele
March 14
Stream here: free.
The Wilbury Theatre Group presents
The Race
by Mark Binder
March 13-28
directed by Brien Lang
Two job-seekers from vastly different backgrounds vie for the same position in a large, faceless corporation. Each reveals uncomfortable truths from their past while dodging landmines from their competition, and dealing with an increasingly demanding disembodied interviewer. The audience also plays an integral part as they can communicate in a live chat, as the interview happens onscreen, and ultimately decide who is the best man for the job. Tickets: $20.
Third Citizen Theatre Company presents
Digital Dionysia Round 2
now-March 12
Even though "one night only" has a great ring to it, Third Citizen wanted to give people another opportunity to experience the short plays featured in the Digital Dionysia Festival. The productions have been divided into thematic playlists that are being released on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at the beginning of March. Each playlist will be available for purchase for one week.
Playlist Five
Thalia: The Comedies
Available March 10
Sisyphus & Icarus: a Love Story
by William Ivor Fowkes
Prometheus Shrugs
by John Bavoso
The Oracle Cassandra
by Amanda Beveridge
Octavian Augustus: A Tale of Topping
by Nic Sommerfield
Playlist Six
Catharsis: Breakdowns and Breakthroughs
Available March 12
Ree & Lexie Go To College
by Nehassaiu Degannes
Izzy at Zoom Therapy
by Jillian Blevins
Flower In The Underworld
by Amy Oestreicher
All The Time In The world
by Kai Austin
Tickets: $15 per playlist.
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Online Play Reading of LETTERS TO KAMALA Opens WAM 2021 Season
Available for Streaming March 14-21
WAM Theatre begins its 12th season with an Online Fresh Takes Play Reading of LETTERS TO KAMALA by Rachel Lynett, directed by Nicole Brewer, which will be available to stream from Sunday, March 14 to Sunday, March 21. Tickets are on sale now.
In the tense lead up to the 2020 presidential election, playwright Rachel Lynett conjures three female American political leaders of the past to share their wisdom, perspective, and wry humor with VP candidate Kamala Harris.
Playwright Rachel Lynett explained that following Harris’s nomination for Vice President: “I wanted to write a play that explored pride mixed in with caution, a play that questioned our cultural obsession with firsts but also made room for understanding the weight that being "first'' carries. Who were the other firsts? What sacrifices did they have to make to get there and what can we ultimately never compromise on?"
Director Nicole Brewer echoed this sentiment saying: “"VP Harris has an impressive record filled with many firsts and what I appreciate about Lynett's play is the central question of success at what cost and where does she go from here?”
Missing from our history books, our current Vice President is challenged and cheered on by three powerful women on whose shoulders she stands: Charlotta Bass (Shannon Lamb), the first Black woman candidate for vice president, Charlene Mitchell (Torie Wiggins), the first Black woman to run for president, and Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink (Lilli Hokama), the first woman of color to be elected to the House of Representatives, first Asian-American woman to run in Congress and the first Asian-American to run for president.
All three actors are making their WAM debut. Lilli Hokama, who Berkshire audiences may remember from I and You at Chester Theatre, will be playing Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink. Lilli has appeared in The Wolves at Lincoln Center Theatre, Little Women at the Dallas Theatre Center, and Amadeus at the Folger Theatre, where she will be returning post-pandemic to appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shannon Lamb, who will be playing Charlotta Bass, has performed as an actor and singer on stages across the country, from Arkansas Repertory Theatre to the Huntington Theatre in Boston. She sang the National Anthem at Madison Square Garden and played various roles in The Dave Chappelle Show on Comedy Central. And Torie Wiggins, who is playing Charlene Mitchell, is an actor, director, voiceover artist, playwright and professor. In addition to performing on many regional theatre stages, she has co-adapted and performed a one-woman show, Your Negro Tour Guide, at various venues across the country.
The next Online Fresh Takes Play Reading of THE LIGHT by Loy A. Webb, directed by Colette Robert, will be available for streaming April 25-May 2. A surprise proposal gift puts the future of Genesis and Rashad's relationship at risk when they are forced to confront a devastating secret from the past. The Light is a 70-minute, real-time rollercoaster ride of laughter, romance, and despair that uncovers how the power of radical love can be a healing beacon of light.
Tickets for LETTERS TO KAMALA and THE LIGHT are on sale now. Audiences can book a ticket to the virtual readings and view anytime during the week. WAM aims to make both readings as accessible as possible, while maintaining our commitment to providing artists opportunities that are equitable. Therefore, we invite patrons to pick their own ticket price, ranging from $15-$50. For more information or to reserve your tickets today, visit WAM online at wamtheatre.com or call 413.274.8122.
For tickets and more information about the 2021 Season and WAM Theatre’s programs, events, and artists, please visit www.WAMTheatre.com.
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Leonora, la maga y la maestra
The PEAK HD/ALL ARTS broadcast and online premiere streaming on
March 14, 2021 at 8pm
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Our recorded performance of Leonora, la maga y la maestra for PEAK HD in partnership with ALL ARTS has arrived!!! This is an online event that is open and free to all, as well as a televised event in the New York tri-state area only. After the premiere, the performance will be available on the All Arts website for the next 3 years.
Double Edge took part in a multi-camera 4K shoot which was captured in high definition at Peak Performances at Montclair State University on the Alexander Kasser Theater stage.
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Sunday, March 14 at 8pm: catch the online broadcast premiere of Leonora, la maga y la maestra here.
Tune in on TV in the New York tri-state area only:
Channels: Optimum 144, Verizon Fios SD 497/HD 498, Comcast 958/1156, Spectrum 1276, and Digital Antenna 21.4
Airing Dates and Times: March 14 8:00 pm & 11:00 pm; March 15 2:00 am; March 16 8:30 am, 1:30 pm & 6:30 pm; March 17 9:30 pm; March 18 12:30 am & 3:30 am; March 19 8:00 pm; March 20 12:30 am.
Find out how to watch ALL ARTS on your TV, smartphone, tablet, Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon Fire TV here.
Want to receive a reminder about the broadcast? Sign up for free on Eventbrite to get a reminder 1 hour before the broadcast airs on March 14 at 8pm, and join our watch party!
Please contact us at office@doubleedgetheatre.org if you have any questions about how to watch the performance and we'd be happy to help!
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The Smith College Theatre Department presents a digital production of Julius Caesar premiering live on YouTube on the Ides of March, Monday, March 15 at 7:30PM. Ellen W. Kaplan directs William Shakespeare’s tragedy about the early days of the collapse of the Roman Empire through the lens of America’s current political moment. Actors were filmed over Zoom and edited into digital scenescapes with animation and original music to create a multi-layered, fully designed production featuring the work of over 50 students. The public is invited to attend the free, live premiere by registering at https://juliuscaesar-smith.eventbrite.com.
“Why do Julius Caesar now?” Director Ellen Kaplan asks rhetorically, “Because it speaks to us now, in this precarious moment. Our imperfect democracy sees its levers degraded and its norms subverted by those who grasp for power. Things we take for granted–elections, rule of law, respect of difference, freedom of speech–are used against us.” Kaplan chose Julius Caesar for the 2020-21 season last year before the pandemic. It was supposed to start the Fall season with performances in October just ahead of the election. Rather than abandon the idea with the closing of campus and the shift to remote learning, she decided to reimagine the production as a digital theatre piece. She developed a course for Smith’s winter-term to teach digital theatre and explore the relevance of Julius Caesar today. Close to 60 students enrolled or participated as an extracurricular activity.
In order to mount a complicated production in six weeks, teams of students shared directing, design, production, and editing responsibilities. Ed Check, faculty in set design, created a digital set, utilizing detailed storyboards to convey the visual elements of the production which were realized during the Zoom recordings and in post-production with scenic backgrounds and animation. Working with student designers, faculty advisors and staff sent lights, microphones, costumes, and props to actors around the country. Bi-weekly production meetings, Google Drive, and Stage Manager Madison VanDeurzen ’22 kept the remote teams on track and unified.
What no one in the production could foresee were the stunning and historic events following the election of Joseph Biden to the presidency. The January 6 storming of the capital occurred during the first week of shooting. The uncontrollable mob in Shakespeare’s Rome presaged the angry Trump supporters who turned to violence in D.C. Students watched American democracy stumble and found new relevance in Shakespeare’s text and sharper motivation for their portrayal of the 400-year-old play. Kaplan challenged her students to consider the questions: What predicates the death of a democracy? How do we know if the political structures that we take for granted might be crumbling? And, what might the death of the Roman republic tell us about our present situation?
Kaplan hopes the work will resonate with audience members as it has with the class. “In Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare interrogates the tensions between tyranny, oligarchy, democracy and "mob rule”. Perhaps he can help us see where we are and what might be coming.”
At a Glance:
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Live Premiere March 15 at 7:30PM
on YouTube
To register: https://juliuscaesar-smith.eventbrite.com
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UMass Theater presents Women in Theatrical Design:
Anita Yavich, Jane Shaw, Jane Cox and Mimi Lien on Theater Design Today |
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March 16, 1-2 p.m.: Lighting Designer Jane Cox
March 30, 1-2 p.m.: Scenic Designer Mimi Lien
Free and open to the community; registration is encouraged but not required through the Fine Arts Center Box Office.
In a series of Zoom conversations that will be free and open to a national audience, UMass Theater presents four brilliant practitioners of theatrical design who will share their thoughts on their work and how they experience their field as women.
Sound Designer Jane Shaw (March 8), Lighting Designer Jane Cox (March 16), and Scenic Designer Mimi Lien (March 30) will talk about their art and practice, how they have found ways to assert their voice in a male-dominated sphere, and how they view the economics of making a career in their field. The conversations will be moderated by the designers' counterpart faculty members in theater, Yao Chen, Amy Altadonna, Penny Remsen, and Anya Klepikov. Registration for the conversations is encouraged but not required through the Fine Arts Center Box Office: https://fac.umass.edu/Online/article/TheaterDepartment
In private meetings, each designer will also conduct portfolio reviews and offer career advice to the department's MFA design students.
With the exception of costume design, theater design and technical fields are dominated by men — one recent study shows that in Off-Broadway theaters, more than two-thirds of set, lighting, projection, and sound design hires from 2010-2015 were men. This series is made possible with support from Women for UMass Amherst (WFUM), a network of alumni that promotes the advancement of campus programs that provide access, support, and opportunity for UMass Amherst students, with preference to those projects that positively impact UMass Amherst women and their respective communities.
“Our guests will help give our students additional tools and impetus for challenging the sexism and bias out there,” said Theater Chair Harley Erdman. “The message is important for students of all genders who will be working in these male-heavy fields. We are thankful to WFUM for jumpstarting this idea and generously supporting it.”
More about our guests:
Jane Cox, Lighting Designer
Jane Cox is a lighting designer for theater, opera, dance and music. Designs in 2019 included The Marriage of Figaro at San Francisco Opera; Fefu and her Friends at Theater for a New Audience in NYC, directed by Princeton alumna Lileana Blain-Cruz; King Lear with Glenda Jackson on Broadway, directed by Sam Gold; a new musical adaptation of Secret Life of Bees (the design was nominated for a Drama Desk Award 2020); The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, directed by fellow faculty member John Doyle; a theatrical adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates book Between The World and Me, directed by Kamilah Forbes and a revival of True West on Broadway, directed by British director James McDonald. Jane has been nominated for two Tony awards, for her work on Jitney (2017) and on Machinal (2014), four Drama Desk awards, and three Lortel awards, and in 2013, was awarded the Henry Hewes Design Award for her work on The Flick. Jane has been a company member of the Monica Bill Barnes Dance Company for twenty years is Director of the Princeton University Program in Theater.
Mimi Lien, Scenic Design
Mimi Lien is a designer of sets/environments for theater, dance, and opera. In 2015, she was named a MacArthur Fellow, the first set designer ever to achieve this distinction. Selected work includes Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, TONY Award, Lortel Award, 2013 Hewes Design Award), John (Signature Theatre, 2016 Hewes Design Award), Appropriate (Mark Taper Forum, LA Drama Critics Circle Award), Preludes, The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center), An Octoroon (Soho Rep/TFANA, Drama Desk and Lortel nominations), Black Mountain Songs (BAM Next Wave). Her stage designs have been exhibited in the Prague Quadrennial in 2011 and 2015, and her sculptures were featured in the exhibition, LANDSCAPES OF QUARANTINE, at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Mimi Lien received a B.A. in Architecture from Yale University (1997) and an M.F.A. in Stage Design from New York University (2003). She is a company member of Pig Iron Theatre Company and co-founder of the performance space JACK. |
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CitySpace presents
Art and Life in the Making: In Conversation with artists Silas Kopf and Nora Valdez
MARCH 21
6 -7 P.M.
Take a (virtual) studio tour with two virtuoso artists. From storytelling to an exploration of finely crafted artistry, these award-winning artists reconnect and discuss their artistic journeys and how their paths coincided in Western Massachusetts. Join this live, online discussion with Nora Valdez, an international award-winning sculptor from Argentina, and Silas Kopf, a masterful and award-winning furniture maker specializing in the art of marquetry, to learn how their perspectives on transforming materials like stone and wood into masterful creations inform insights into nature, change and community engagement.
Tickets are $25 per household / $60 for three events (through March 7)
CitySpace offers reparations pricing with reduced or free tickets available for BIPOC.
TICKETS
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You’re invited to Scarlet Sock Foundation’s Virtual Third Annual Gala!
Sunday March 21 2021; 7:00-8:00 PM EST
We missed being together last year and want to update you on all the great work your support made possible during the last two years. Scarlet Sock Foundation had a banner first year funding social justice theater programming that made a difference across the Pioneer Valley. Then, despite a year that made live, in-person theater impossible, we were still able to foster curiosity, self-confidence and inclusion for students in the performing arts. That's what social justice theater is all about!
Come join us to celebrate our inaugural grant recipients and see excerpts from some of them including The Performance Project, WAM Theatre and Enchanted Circle Theater. We will also be highlighting 2020’s recipients including Serious Play! and The Drama Studio in Springfield.
Scarlet Sock Foundation was founded in memory of Laura DiPillo who passionately believed that all people deserve to be included and heard. That is why we support social justice theater, which aims to raise awareness about social issues through the performing arts.
During the program, which is free to attend, you’ll be invited to make a donation to Scarlet Sock Foundation.
Visit our website at www.scarletsock.org to learn more!
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The Living Presence of Our History: Part III
Healing and Reparations Through the Land Back Movement:
A Conversation on Indigenous Land Tenure, Stewardship, and Access
March 21 at 1 pm
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In 2020, Ohketeau, a recently established Ashfield-based Center for Indigenous Culture, and Double Edge Theatre co-produced The Living Presence of Our History on August 2 and September 13. On March 21 at 1 pm, we will broadcast Part III on HowlRound TV, Double Edge's Facebook as well as Ohketeau's Facebook page. Prior broadcasts can be viewed here:
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UMass Theater's Visionary Futures speculates on what it takes to make a more just world
Visionary Futures: Science Fiction Theater for Social Justice Movements
March 24 and April 1, 7:30 pm: Gender Experience TM by M. Sloth Levine
March 25 and April 2, 7:30 pm: Unity by Phaedra Scott
March 26 and 31, 7:30 pm: Beyond Reform by Jaymes Sanchez |
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What kind of future do you envision? The trio of visionary playwrights that have been commissioned by the UMass Theater department offer a glimpse of the futures they envision in Visionary Futures: Science Fiction Theater for Social Justice Movements series.
Starting March 24, audiences can see one, two, or all three of the works that comprise this series: Unity, by Phaedra Scott; Beyond Reform, by Jaymes Sanchez, and Gender Experience TM, by M. Sloth Levine.
Creator Josh Glenn-Kayden, a third-year MFA directing candidate, encourages you to join us in envisioning the intersection of science fiction and activism. Inspired by “Octavia’s Brood,” a short story anthology named for writer Octavia Butler that explores the connection between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change, this project sits at the intersection of theater and activism. Three professional playwrights — Phaedra Scott (Good Hair), M. Sloth Levine (whose Interrobangers was a popular Play Lab entry last spring), and Jaymes Sanchez (The Cucuy Will Find You) — have each written a 30-minute play and have been paired with activists (TreaAndrea Russworm, Finn Lefevre, and Eli Plenk, respectively) whose work intersects with the content of the play. These teams met regularly throughout the writing process to create plays that speculate on how societies may reimagine concepts like gender, justice, and identity in the future. (Visit our website to read bios of the artists as well as updates about our activtists, cast, and play titles.)
“I think there's something inherently hopeful about Visionary Futures,” says Tatiana Godfrey, dramaturg for the project. “Both the activist and the playwright are asking the same question, 'What does a more just world look like?'”
Glenn-Kayden and Godfrey are also asking these questions, building a new, inclusive process of play creation. This integrative experience allows the activists to be involved in the writing process and trajectory of the play, rather than being brought in to consult afterward.
“We're creating a new model of collaboration that includes more voices in the generative process and are excited to develop plays that are imaginative and forward thinking while still having roots in the activism work of our present moment,” says Glenn-Kayden.
Each performance in March and April is a fully digital production, with virtual aspects designed by Streaming Producer Leanna Keyes.
Visionary Futures: Science Fiction Theater for Social Justice Movements will be livestreamed to YouTube. Join us as we embark on this imaginative journey into envisioning a new world.
This event is free. Visit the Fine Arts Center Box Office to claim your spot in the virtual audience now.
Support our productions with a donation.
(Image by Tatiana Godfrey) |
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SILVERTHORNE THEATER COMPANY PRESENTS "THE WAITING ROOM": AN INTERACTIVE ONLINE PLAY IN TWO WORLDS
Silverthorne Theater is proud to present the World Premiere of the unique, written-for-Zoom play, THE WAITING ROOM, by Steve Wangh. During each of the six live online performances, audience members will have chances to interact with the actors. The shows are scheduled for March 26, 27, April 2, and 3 at 730 pm and March 28 and April 4 at 3 pm. Tickets are available now at Eventbrite.com and on the theater web page at https://silverthornetheater.org/special-events.
THE WAITING ROOM is set in two worlds. On one level, it takes place in the Bardo - a liminal reality between one life and the next, where souls gather to await their next earthly assignment. On another level, it occurs on the Zoom platform, in which actors and audience members exist in separate "rooms" but share the fiction of being together. It will be performed by a diverse cast of Western MA actors under playwright Wangh's direction in conjunction with veteran STC director Chris Rohmann.
Silverthorne's production of THE WAITING ROOM continues its mission of engaging with artists bringing new work to the stage. In this case, the piece is ideally suited to current performance conditions. "At the time we started work on the play, live performance venues were still shuttered," said STC producer Lucinda Kidder. "The Waiting Room enables live audience participation in a truly unique theatrical experience from any location!" The Company has launched several successful online performances throughout 2020, and it recognizes that it may be some time before patrons will feel comfortable returning to live productions.
THE WAITING ROOM reflects contemporary society in whimsical but often unsettling ways. Characters speak as the person they were when last on earth, but they may inhabit a body differently gendered or of different ethnicity or race. They enter and exit their Zoom rooms as they are called to be born in a new body. In the course of the play, actors and audience members meet up in Breakout Rooms for conversation and questions.
In its examination of the cycle of life and death, the play proposes a different take on mortality that will spark reflection and discussion among all ages and persuasions of theater lovers. It wipes away all personal and societal divisions to affirm the very essence of what it means to be a human as each new arrival departs to be born once more with a clean slate. Such a premise prompts the most basic of existential questions- as well as humorous reactions to the mixed bag of reassignments.
Residing in Brattleboro, Steve Wangh has been a playwright, director and teacher of acting throughout his highly successful career. He was associate writer for Emmy-nominated The Laramie Project, and penned the influential acting text, An Acrobat of the Heart, detailing the training methods of Jerzy Growtowski. He maintains his connections with New York University’s Experimental Theatre Wing as professor emeritus. He is the author of fifteen plays and was dramaturg for Moisés Kaufman’s Gross Indecencies: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.
The cast includes Kyle Boatwright (Amherst), Jen Campbell (Holyoke), Mark Dean (Northampton), Michael Garcia (Bondsville) and Kevin Tracy (Holyoke). Ethelyn Friend (New York) plays the unseen Stationmaster who oversees the Bardo. The technical director is John Iverson (Bernardston), assisted by Maggie Donovan (Mt Holyoke College).
For ticket sales, questions and further information, please contact us at silverthornetheater@gmail.com, call 413-768-7514, or visit https://silverthornetheater.org/special-events .
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