So, The Lily's Revenge is quite the eye popping, fun spectacle, I think. I really have never been in or seen anything quite like it. So I suggest you see it if you can, since it's only blooming for another week!
www.amrep.org
But there's all these other things going on you should see too:
The Company We Keep, at BPT: an edgy new play by a strong new playwright, Jaclyn Villano. With Marianna Bassham, John Kooi, Jessica Webb...
...it also has Bill Mootos in it. But you should STILL GO!
http://www.bostonplaywrights.org/
Also, ASP is doing the Scottish Play in Medford, directed by the fabulous Paula Plum. So you can get your spook on for Halloween.
www.actorsshakespeareproject.org
Apollinaire Theatre Company has extended Uncle Vanya thru Nov 11th, and it's a wonderful production with limited seats, so get them now if you missed it the first time!
http://www.apollinairetheatre.com/productions/productions.html
And my good friend Doug Lockwood has directed Escape From Happiness at Brandeis (this weekend only, so go TOMORROW!)
http://www.brandeis.edu/arts/btc/1213season/escapefromhappiness.html
So there's some fun things to do! Enjoy!
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Sunday, October 3, 2010
After Hours
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Just saw a really cool piece at BoCo on Friday night: my good friend Doug Lockwood directing Marjorie Morgan in a one-woman performance piece called After Hours. (Actually, I'm not sure if that's the title of the piece, or just literally when it was happening, which is kind of great.)
The rest of this site specific, experimental play is just as unsettling. Morgan strolls around the beautiful, eerie, wood-carved Albert Alphin library in white jammies. The audience, which is limited to 30, strolls around with her - sort of a mini "Sleep No More" - while she dances, sings, strums on a ukulele, balances precariously - and with great grace - on bookshelves, talks to the huge portraits of men hanging on the walls and plays a sort of bowling match with those metal, book stop thingys.
Needless to say, this was all right up my alley: I loved it.
Is she some crazed librarian acting out strange rituals while the library slumbers? A modern day Mrs. Havisham? Is she a ghost? Is she haunted herself? Are we really here - she interacts with the audience - or inside her dream?
The text is original - a sort of collage - with excerpts and songs from William Shakespeare, Leonard Bernstein, Lennon/McCartney, Hamlisch, Jerry Herman, Meredith Wilson, and Rogers and Hammerstein.Needless to say, this was all right up my alley: I loved it.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Much Ado
We are deep into rehearsals for "Much Ado About Nothing" with the Actors Shakespeare Project, a company I helped to found with a group of other Boston actors.
I have never been in the play before, tho I've seen it quite a number of times. Being in it is a very different experience: it's an impossibly lighthearted play. I don't mean that in a frivolous way, but in a rather profound way: it captures this innate sense of fun and joy and mischief that humans just contain in there core, somewhere. Even the dark aspects seem light (hence, I suppose, the title!)
We are doing the play in Roxbury, on the corner of Harrison and Dudley, at a space called Hiberian Hall, which is a renovated arts center building from the 50s (perhaps earlier). The space has been quite a challenge: the room tends to suck up your voice something AWFUL. The neighborhood is also a little off the beaten track and a bit rough around the edges, so there is concern about getting people to come in to see the show.
We are doing the play in the round, which has been quite a challenge.
Paula Plum and Richard Snee are playing Beatrice and Benedick. I'm playing Don Pedro, the Prince. I thought I would just have a couple of lines, but the guy actually never shuts up. Who knew?
Most of us are double cast, so we morph into different characters: Doug Lockwood plays Don John and Dogberry, which I think is a really interesting combination.
We open next week. I'll try to keep you posted on how it goes. Truthfully, I forgot that I had this blog until recently, when I was writing on another blog, and i "signed in", and up popped this "indentity". Kind of cool.
Johnny
I have never been in the play before, tho I've seen it quite a number of times. Being in it is a very different experience: it's an impossibly lighthearted play. I don't mean that in a frivolous way, but in a rather profound way: it captures this innate sense of fun and joy and mischief that humans just contain in there core, somewhere. Even the dark aspects seem light (hence, I suppose, the title!)
We are doing the play in Roxbury, on the corner of Harrison and Dudley, at a space called Hiberian Hall, which is a renovated arts center building from the 50s (perhaps earlier). The space has been quite a challenge: the room tends to suck up your voice something AWFUL. The neighborhood is also a little off the beaten track and a bit rough around the edges, so there is concern about getting people to come in to see the show.
We are doing the play in the round, which has been quite a challenge.
Paula Plum and Richard Snee are playing Beatrice and Benedick. I'm playing Don Pedro, the Prince. I thought I would just have a couple of lines, but the guy actually never shuts up. Who knew?
Most of us are double cast, so we morph into different characters: Doug Lockwood plays Don John and Dogberry, which I think is a really interesting combination.
We open next week. I'll try to keep you posted on how it goes. Truthfully, I forgot that I had this blog until recently, when I was writing on another blog, and i "signed in", and up popped this "indentity". Kind of cool.
Johnny
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