Directed by Paul Baker The Exception and the Rule is a Lehrstück (i.e. “learning play”) by Bertolt Brecht (translated by Ralph Manheim). A hugely influential playwright, Brecht believed theater had a duty to educate as well as to entertain. Written around 1929, Exception confronts a deplorable aspect of black-white relations, all too familiar to us […]
Friday Staged Reading, June 2: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
FRIDAY STAGED READING June 2, 2017 at 8:00pm Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare directed by Andrea Holliday University Church, 5655 S. University Avenue in the Sactuary Cafe Admission is $5 at the door. “There is a kind of merry war betwixt Benedick and Beatrice. They never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them.” […]
Friday Staged Reading: Harold Pinter, THE LOVER, directed by Rosina Neginsky, Friday May 5
Friday, May 5, 8:00pm Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Avenue The Lover by Harold Pinter Directed by Rosina Neginsky Featuring: Ron Chaffetz, Rosina Neginsky, Scott Malpass, Laura MacGregor and Adam Hammond. Written in 1962, this serio-comic play contrasts domesticity with sexual yearning in a very odd love triangle. Pinter leads the audience to believe that there […]
Friday Staged Reading, April 7, 8:00pm: “Secret Rivers” by Marilyn Cavicchia
Friday, April 7, 8:00 p.m. Augustana Lutheran Church Admission: $5 Secret Rivers Director and Author: Marilyn Cavicchia Performers: Anthony Brown, Ron Chafetz, Corinna Christman, Leslie Halverson, Adam Hammond, Bobbie Lyons, Scott Malpass, Elizabeth “Dusty” Rahuba, Chris Skyles, Amelia Snoblin Imagine your town is dying. Would you do anything to save it? What if that […]
The Birds Have Flown And The Bones Are Quiet.
Tonight’s staged reading has come and gone. This is my first experience doing one, and I have to say it’s nice to get to direct something without having to give your entire life to it. With basically four weeks, only two rehearsals with the musicians and actors together, and only one run-through in the space […]
February Staged Reading: W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well and The Dreaming Of The Bones,
So on Friday, February 3 at 8:00 pm at Augustana Lutheran Church (assuming the world has not yet ended), my hardy band of players, singers, and musicians will do staged readings of two of Yeats’s dance plays: At the Hawk’s Well and The Dreaming of the Bones. Each play runs about 20 minutes and there will […]