Stagecrafters Inc.
66th Continuous Season
HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
Adapted & Dramatized by Tim Kelly
Oct. 21-29, 2017
DADDY’S DYIN’ WHO’S GOT THE WILL
By Del Shores
Feb. 10-18, 2018
JAKE’S WOMEN
By Neil Simon
May 5-13, 2018
Filed under Season Announcements
Open Call to All Cincinnati Actors!
We are Strong Brothers Films and have a team participating in the Cincinnati 48 Hour Film Project (http://www.48hourfilm.com/cincinnati-oh). Want to have some fun?
The project contest runs from July 21-23, 2017. Teams pull 1 of 30 genres, Comedy, Drama, Horror, etc. from a hat at 6:00 pm EDT Friday July 21 and must turn in a 7-minute film by 6:00 pm EDT Sunday July 23. We plan on all filming occurring Saturday July 22, 2017.
We had a wonderful time with all of the actors we met on Behind The Curtain who participated in the 2016 48 Hr. Film Project with us. They also praised our collective effort saying that they had fun. Here’s a link to our 2016 entry, “Abaddon.”
**Actors cannot be paid per contest rules**
Contact us at hargis.kelson@gmail.com, or hargis.kelson@yahoo.com to sign up.
Filed under Casting Call
The actors who came today for YV’s summer production of THE KING AND I were AWESOME!!
We need some more to fill out this HUGE cast, however!! We need young children, and teenage girls and guys!!
Please come to the LHS Choir classroom tomorrow between 10am-2pm, or visit www.voicesofindiana.org to sign up for a time. You do NOT have to be in Young Voices to audition for this show! Join us!! Let me know if you have questions. This show is open to the whole community!
Performance dates are Aug. 11-12
Filed under Casting Call, Family-Friendly
IS THAT ALL THERE IS? presented by Cincinnati LAB Theatre as part of the 2017 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. You can read the show description here.
“I have not plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It’s a terrible disease. You can’t stop.” -Peggy Lee
Jaren Doren handles the role of Ronald/Rita well, but I think he could safely go bigger in personality without becoming a caricature. I would also encourage more stage drinking to better establish his issues with alcohol.
As Ronald’s sister Tess, Danielle Muething strikes a nice emotional balance between sibling and in a way, rival. Her relationship with childhood friend Chad also felt genuine and she handles his original song very well.
Sean Michael Flowers is fun as Chad, but he seemed more comfortable behind the piano. I thought his original song was a good fit for the show.
I did enjoy how the visit from his sister happened mid-transformation from Ronald to “Rita.” The half completed make-up added a surreal quality and really emphasized his/her facial expressions.
While I understand that the playwright was being purposefully vague, there were several instances where few more tidbits of information could have made the dialogue seem less repetitive. Overall though, a strong first effort from Sara Mackie.
Three performances remain through June 10.
GOD OF OBSIDIAN presented by Gideon Productions as part of the 2017 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. You can read the show description here.
Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or members of a group, hoping to make targets question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the target and delegitimize the target’s belief. –Wikipedia
Mac Rogers as Nathan & Rebecca Comtois as Alice.
Gideon Productions ups the creep factor with a strong, engaging script from playwright Mac Rogers. I enjoyed the Brothers Grimm undertones to the story.
As Alice, Rebecca Comtois is fascinating to watch as her new and happy relationship descends into one of mental abuse and manipulation. Emotionally, her performance rings true and believable as she struggles to remember who she is and reassert her independence.
Mac Rogers is equally strong as congenial and earnest Nathan. Even though the character doesn’t change much superficially, the machinations under the surface are there and fascinating to watch. He pretty much embodies that “he was quiet and kept to himself, but always seemed so nice” serial killer quality.
Director Jordana Williams keeps the pacing strong and uses the play space effectively. The upstage use of the bridge worked very well. There was one point near the middle of the performance where I felt it was starting to lose momentum but the show quickly rebounded.
At the performance I attended, part of the “fun” of the performance was the audience’s physical and verbal reactions as the story unfolded. Very interesting, well-written and strongly performed, but I felt like I needed a shower after it was over. The final performance is tonight, June 5th.
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