The Ghostlight Stage Company is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for it’s upcoming season opener, “2024 One Act Double Feature.” This year’s double feature will showcase “Esther Made Me Do It” by Nell Adkins and Elizabeth Sacktor, and “Artists & Vandals,” by Erin K. Considine.
Cast & Creative Teams:
Intimacy Coordinator: Angelique Archer
Stage Manager: Rose Gibson
Set Designer: Viscaya Wilson
Costume Designer: Lindsey Jones
ARTISTS & VANDALS
Playwright: Erin K. Considine
Director: Tamara Winters
Cast: Kate Stark, Montez O. Jenkins Copeland, Douglas Fries
ESTHER MADE ME DO IT
Playwrights: Nell Adkins and Elizabeth Sacktor
Director: Beasley
Cast: Faith Gingrich Goetz-Isaacs, Rachel Kobernick
More about the event: The Ghostlight’s One Act Double Feature gives the audience a look “behind the curtain” and into the process-side of developing 2 new one-act plays. Leading up to the event, casts and creative teams are given 4 brief rehearsals to workshop the plays, with the playwrights making adjustments throughout. After these few rehearsals, plays are performed in front of an audience to bring them into the process and gain valuable community feedback! The plays are presented with some light staging and minimal costuming and props similar to other staged-readings…but with a twist! Audiences can take a look into the visions for how the pieces could be if they were to go on and be fully developed in the future. We do this by having design presentations from professional set and costume designers available in a studio space for audiences to ask questions about and view before the performance and during intermission. There are also feedback boxes where audience members can write down their thoughts and be a part of the development process! Each performance will also begin and end with brief commentary from the playwrights and directors of each piece, who give the audience even more insight as to the process of developing the work, their vision for what’s to come and their motivation for creating the piece in the first place. You can’t miss this interactive developmental night of theatre!
ARTISTS & VANDALS synopsis: After years of odd jobs and struggling to make ends meet, Lyla and Knox are opening their own Art Gallery to critical acclaim and personal pride. They have parented a son and parented each other. Nothing could ruin this night. Nothing but Daniel: who disappeared fifteen years ago, and is now standing in the shadows under the L.
ESTHER MADE ME DO IT synopsis: Best friends, Naomi and Ruth, are preparing to audition for their local Purim shpiel. Naomi, gunning for the part of Esther, hopes to kick start her theatrical career. Ruth questions her feelings for Naomi and how long she’s willing to put Naomi’s desires before her own.
Date/Time: October 21, 2024 at 7pm
Location: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Schiff Education Studio
Performance will run approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including a 10 minute intermission.
All tickets are “pay what you can” and can be reserved ahead at: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/e73170b7-225a-403b-b21e-3591393cca82
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