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...First weekend for several reasons. For starters, it will last roughly 20 minutes and will be performed outside. In addition, the show’s attendees can expect that the performance will not take itself too seriously. Gus T. Hickey ’11, the show’s director, says, “It’s kind of silly and very fun.” Indeed, though many of show’s 17 actors are seasoned performers on the Loeb Mainstage, Hickey says that the audience can expect, “lots of silly, loud voices...
...Pericles,” the HSC’s annual spring Visiting Director’s Project, will be playing at the Adams Pool Theatre from April 29 to May 1. Each year the company invites a professional director from the Boston area to select and direct a Shakespeare play. This year’s pick is Adam Stone. “Adam absolutely gets this play, and knows how to use humor to really bring out the absurdity of the script,” Federman says. Stone saw potential in the tension and energy of Shakespeare?...
Noah J. Madoff ’12, who plays Pericles, stresses that an innovative play like this one needs an innovative director. “This play has a cluttered, bizarre script that doesn’t follow the rules of normal Shakespeare—but Adam has been fearless in editing, cutting, and reworking the production,” Madoff says. Stone adds, “I just developed the production word for word from the script based on the images and references that filtered into my mind and that of the cast.” In addition...
...actors—layers of meaning and context that you won’t necessarily see in the shallow, episodic plotline,” he says. Federman agrees: “We may not have had a promising production under different leadership, but Adam is the kind of director who can get people excited about a Shakespeare play, and an obscure one at that...
Eric C. Engel, his director at the Publick Boston Theater, believes that Cutmore-Scott’s abilities will take him far. “I have found Jack to be an extremely gifted and gracious actor, and I look forward to seeing his career flourish. I have no doubt that it will,” he says...