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...theater piece, Jarcho set to work. “I don’t consider the play to be a version of the story. It’s much more a response than an attempt to render it,” the playwright explains. The poem focuses on Bess, a beautiful girl who tries to save the life of her beloved highwayman by shooting herself, thereby warning him of an ambush. In Jarcho’s version, however, Bess is the center of what she describes as “a complex of experiences” that include the story...
Eschewing the customary audition process, Jarcho chose some actors whom she has used before and some theatrical novices. Sarah E. Porter ’03, who plays Bess, has been in two other Jarcho productions, and when the director asked her to come along for a third ride, says Porter, “I was thrilled. Julia’s writing is so smart. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s poetry set to motion.” Lisa C. Lightbody ’03 has no theatrical experience, but Jarcho says...
Porter feels that “being in the moment” is a great way to do theater. She explains that if she played Bess any other way, it would be obviously false. It’s very easy to get carried away with long speeches, she says, but thinking about them as everyday speech allows her to be natural. “Being in character never jived with me anyhow,” Porter concludes...
...DIED. WILLIAM WARFIELD, 82, acclaimed baritone best known for his portrayal of Porgy in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess; in Chicago. The son of an Arkansas Baptist preacher, Warfield first sang the part in a 1952 European tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department...
...founded the Negro Actors Guild of America and wrote theater reviews for The People's Voice, published by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., who was at the time married to Isabelle. Later Fredi was a casting consultant on the Dorothy Dandridge-starring films "Carmen Jones" and "Porgy and Bess," the most lavish black-cast musicals of the 50s. She devoted most of her productive life to civil rights causes that tried to redress the indignities she and others had suffered...