The Hotel Nepenthe returns!

The Hotel Nepenthe opens (or re-opens) tonight!

Very excited to be part of the Emerging America Festival.

The show looks beautiful: I hope you can make it!

We close in 4 days.

Get your tix here:  www.huntingtontheatre.org
or here:
www.emergingamericalfestival.com

Hotel Nepenthe at the Calderwood Pavillion! June 21-24

 The Hotel Nepenthe returns!  Some pics from our dress rehearsal, courtesy of Jeff Adelberg!

www.emergingamericafestival.com

The Hotel Nepenthe Returns!

I'm very excited that my play, The Hotel Nepenthe, will be back for six shows only as part of The Emerging America Festival next week!  

Scary Bellhops!  Fucked-up Starlets!  Wayward Political Wives!  Caffeine-addled Yuppies!

It's the same lovely cast: Marianna Bassham, Daniel Berger-Jones, Georgia Lyman and myself.

Gammons is directing again and designed the gorgeous costumes and set, which will be on the Wimberly Stage with the audience, facing this vast, empty array of red seats that the genius Jeff Adelberg is lighting.

Could NOT be more excited to bring this show to life again!  It's the original ASP production, hosted by The Huntington Theatre Company.

How can I entice you more?   The same production won The Elliot Norton Award for "Best New Play" and "Best Ensemble".  It also won an IRNE for "Best New Play" recently.

AND this is a HOME GROWN play, with all local artists and designers!

Please COME if you missed it the first time!  And if you saw it the first time, COME AGAIN!

And if you like the show:  please spread the word: we open and close in only 4 DAYS!!!

Here's all the info:  www.emergingamericafestival.com

See you at the show!!!

I want you to see The Balcony, of course...

...BUT if you've already seen it, there's two great shows you should catch before they close tomorrow as well.

The rarely produced Dr. Faustus, at Suffolks' Modern Theatre, directed by my good friend David Gammons

and

Angel Reapers, right next door at the Emerson Paramount.

I won't be able to see Angel Reapers, which kills me: my friend Birgit is in it, and I hear it's just phenomenal.

A million years ago, Birgit and I were Orphelia and Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the New Rep. 

Time really does fly.

Or sail.

And if you HAVEN'T seen The Balcony yet: well, I hope you will!  It's our last performance tomorrow, at 2pm.

Hope to see you!

The Hotel Nepenthe - Final Weekend

Wow, I'm going to miss this show!

Thank you to everyone who came out to stay in our weird little hotel!
We have TWO performances left, tonight and tomorrow night, so please spread the word if you can!

Here's the info again, just in case!

THE HOTEL NEPENTHE
Play by John Kuntz
Directed by David R. Gammons
Sets, Costumes, Gammons.
Lights, Jeff Adelberg. Sound, Bill Barclay.
Presented by Actors’ Shakespeare Project as part of the Winter Festival,
at The Storefront in Davis Square, 255 Elm St., Somerville,
866-811-4111,

Go to http://www.actorsshakespeareproject.org/ for tix and directions
Special discount code: order tix online at website above and enter code "wfinsider" to receive $10 tix!
Student rush at the door is $15 with your student ID!
Remaining Show times:
Saturday, 3/12 8 pm curtain
Sunday, 3/13 7 pm curtain

Running time: 1 hr 40 min. with no intermission


More pics from Stratton McCrady:

The Hotel Nepenthe - Four Shows Added!!

We start our extension on Thursday!

Hope you can make it to the show!

ASP has given us FOUR half price tix for this week, so if anyone would like to use them, please let me know!!

More pics from Stratton McCrady:

The One Night Stand's Mother listens in

Princess Firefly

The Brother

Marilyn and Rachel

The Girl in Purple and The Dispatcher

Marilyn poses

The Boyfriend breaks down.  Again.

The Whore and Jack hang out in different planes

someone is filming The Whore and The Senators Wife

The Bellhop tries to connect

The Boyfriend's favorite drink

The Groom and the Bellhop try again.

Top of the Ferris Wheel

Hotel Nepenthe - Final Shows

We started our second week last night!

6 perfs left.

It strangely felt like we had been away for two years, but the show went really great, with a wonderful audience.

Today I have to teach a class in Newton until 5 and then somehow get to the space by 6:45 using public transportation.

Little nervous about that.

More great pics from Stratton, David and Jeff:

The Starlet in her tub (with the One-Night Stand and the Camera Man)

Trent and Marilyn go to the Prom
(while the Dispatcher and The Girl in Purple watch on the TV screen)



The Traveller hears a strange noise...
(Photo credit: Stratton MacCrady)



David, Daniel, Arkansas and Bill on a break during rehearsal.

The Hotel Nepenthe - Final Week

Princess Firefly

So, we have opened the show!

It was a whirlwind.  Very exciting.

Now, I'm trying to wrap my brain around the fact that we are closing the show.

I feel like I have whiplash.

We have 7 more performances and this production will be gone forever.

One week goes by very quickly.

I'm going to try to be in the moment as much as possible.

But I miss the hotel, a little bit, already.

The Hotel Nepenthe - Opening!

We had our dress rehearsal and first preview last night.

We open tonight.

It feels so good to be performing this, and telling this story together.

It's a crazy, scary, funny, creamy ride.

More pics from the amazing Jeff Adelberg:

the elevator

the whore and the senator's wife have car trouble

the starlet and the one-night stand don't know they are being filmed...

hanging out in the tub

The Hotel Nepenthe - Photo Shoot

We played dress-up at rehearsal the other day and Stratton McCrady took these BEAUTIFUL photos of some of our characters from The Hotel Nepenthe. 

Did our first stumble-thru the other night. 

Very grateful for this whole experience.


Daniel as The Bellhop



Georgia as The Girl In Purple






Johnny as The Woman with Wings

Marianna as The Rent-a-Car Gal

Georgia as The Sister

Marianna as The Senator's Wife

Georgia as The Starlet

Daniel as The Taxi Driver

Johnny as The Dispatcher

Marianna as The Mother

Daniel as The One Night Stand

Georgia as The Whore

Johnny as The Stranger

Daniel as The Bus Driver

Daniel, Marianna, Johnny and Georgia in


The Hotel Nepenthe

by John Kuntz

Featuring: Marianna Bassham*, Daniel Berger-Jones, John Kuntz* & Georgia Lyman*

The Storefront in Davis Square
255 Elm Street | Somerville
February 25 - March 6
www.actorsshakespeareproject.org