In April, I wrapped up a thrilling Actors' Renaissance Season at the American Shakespeare Center (my third). It was a remarkable set of plays with some incredibly generous, tenacious artists.
Of our production of Hamlet, Eric Minton (Shakespeareances.com) writes this: "You wonder if theater—any theater—can get better than this. Pause. Breathe. Reiterate....I'm not only still pondering this production's place in all my life's Shakespeareances, I'm still feeling the vibrations in my cheeks, the tingles in my gut, the intensified thumping in my heart, and my stinging palms." (Read the whole review here.) After that, I've had some time to unwind, visit friends, see the Badlands and the Black Hills in western South Dakota. I'm also deep in an exciting play adaptation project. Perhaps I'll share more later. I've been toying with the idea ever since I've heard about the work of Kate Hamill and other actor/playwright. In the past years, I've been reading/watching interviews and adaptations. I've collected something of a file, and now it's time to do something about it. Soon, I'll be packing again and taking root in Kilgore, TX for my debut at Texas Shakespeare Festival. There, I'll be playing Boyet in Love's Labour's Lost, Cleante in Tartuffe, and King John in King John!
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My lines are finally memorized for The Way of the World! This has been a long, tedious process. But I memorized the final bits this morning. This stack of cards has all my cues and lines for the show. It's great for quizzing myself. Come see this and the other shows for the Actors' Renaissance Season at the American Shakespeare Center.
A week or two ago, some of us had a photo shoot with Michael Bailey for marketing with the upcoming 2018 Actors' Renaissance Season. I felt a little bit like a guest host for SNL--it was a lot of fun. I can't wait for you to see the others popping up around Staunton and online.
The Actors' Renaissance Season is a troupe of 12 actors putting together five plays in rotating repertory. We don't have formal directors (though there are instances where a couple actors play a kind of Peter Quince/actor-manager role). We get to costume the plays ourselves! Sometimes all we receive are cue-scripts (instead of having the whole play in our hands, all I have are my lines and the few words that cue those lines). This will be my third time performing in the Ren Season, and I'm thrilled. Here's the list of plays and my roles: Hamlet - Polonius and Fortinbras Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Polonius and Fortinbras The Way of the World - Mirabell Richard II - Northumberland Antonio's Revenge - Alberto Stay tuned for more updates. In the meantime, here's a peek at my cue script for Hamlet. It's just the lines I speak with the few words that precede each line. (Photo: the battle at Corioli in Coriolanus at the American Shakespeare Center. Photo by Lindsey Walters.)
I'm incredibly busy with the Actors' Renaissance Season at the American Shakespeare Center. We're currently performing The Merchant of Venice, Coriolanus, and The School for Scandal. We're one week into rehearsal for Emma Whipday's brand-new play: Shakespeare's Sister. And we're weeks away from beginning rehearsals for The Fair Maid of the Exchange. You can see the latest photos here. In the meantime, my buddy Josh and I shot a little video series for each of the titles. Here's the first one. (I don't know how to embed Facebook videos into this thing...) The 2017 Actors' Renaissance Season casting has been announced. Here are the players: Starting from top left and going clockwise: Josh Innerst; Lauren Ballard; René Thornton, Jr.; Chris Johnston; David Anthony Lewis; Ginna Hoben; John Harrell; Jessika Williams; Grant Davis; Benjamin Reed; Allison Glenzer; and yours truly. |
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