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 - 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 - Extended!



The Rent-A-Car Gal


We just received word that The Hotel Nepenthe will extend into next week.
So we will perform an additional four shows.
Extensions are always a bit of a blessing and a curse at once:
A blessing that more people will be able to see the show.
A curse in that it's VERY hard to get the word out that the show is still going on.
So, if you've seen the show:  Thank you thank you thank you!
Please spread the word along about the extension to friends who might be interested!
Everyone at the Nepenthe Hotel thanks you, in their macabre fashion...

Here's the extension schedule:

Thursday, 3/10 7:30 curtain


Friday, 3/11 7:30 curtain

Saturday, 3/12 8 pm curtain

Sunday, 3/13 7 pm curtain


More pics from the amazing Stratton McCrady:

The Murder Victim waits in the lobby

The Bellhop charms the Rent-A-Car Gal while the Murder Victim expires

The Starlet makes her entrance.

A Guest waits in his robe.

"I always feel like there's someone watching me..."

The Taxi Driver tries to keep his eye on the road.

The Starlet explains her fame.

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 - Free Tickets for Tonight!

Hello to you all!

A little time-sensitive public service announcement that might be of interest:

I just heard word that they are trying to paper the house for our 7pm performance TONIGHT and are offering TWO comps for anyone who might be interested.

So, come on in!  (The Oscars are so BORING, and you can record them and watch them later anyway!)

All you have to do is email comps@actorsshakespeareproject.org and you'll get two comps for tonight!

I hope you can make it, and pass this along to anyone who might be interested!

Johnny

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: The Dispatcher

 

I'm sorry, Miss.  None of the cabs are free...

I'm like that guy.  In space...

Everything is the same, except for one little thing...

Dead.  Instantly.  Did a lot of damage to "Frozen Foods" as well, I heard.

He's in love, but he can't tell her.

She smelled like lemons and Noxema.

The Hotel Nepenthe: The Senator's Wife

The Senator's Wife is a Character in The Hotel Nepenthe.

As I searched for images, I came across this little gem: the 80's music video "The Girl with the Curious Hand" (I actually own the album!) by Boston rocker Digney Fignus, featuring a young, nubile Gail Huff  - wife of Senator Scott Brown - as she sips tea in a row boat, dives into a pool topless, wears really big hats, and does something very curious indeed to her tube of sun tan lotion.