Word: directors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What to look for: Director McGee promises an electric experience for the audience, who should expect to be fully engaged with the actors, even as they break down "the fourth wall a lot" to "seek emotional solace from the audience." The interactive nature of the performance is enhanced by the intimacy of the Adams Pool Theater and McGee says that the very design will suggest the haunting of the theater by the "ghosts of the characters...
...WHAT TO LOOK FOR: Fresh from last year's acclaimed American Buffalo, director Jesse Kellerman, costume designer Lauren Winkler and set designer John Gordon are teaming up again to bring renowned playwright Sam Shepard back to student theater. Simpatico joins a team of designers that has worked together before and an amazing cast with proven talent...
...Premise: An annual event, the freshman play this year is C.P. Taylor's tale of how an ordinary, "good" intellectual German man, John Halder, lets himself be turned into a Nazi. With professional guest director Daniel Gidron (Women on Top, Mere Mortals) and Guest Equity Actor Diego Arciniegas...
...PREMISE: What better way to spend Halloween weekend than feasting your eyes on a play rich in blood and sexual tension? This Shakespearean-era play will add a new flair to the traditional "deal with the devil" plot. Lucifer here will be portrayed as the demonic director of a play within the play, starring none other than the unwitting Dr. Faustus...
...WHAT TO CHECK OUT: By portraying Faustus as an actor within a play, director Cary McClelland is able to emphasize the character's inherent need for a moment of glory in the spotlight, the primary issue drawing him into the dark side. McClelland also pointed out the other benefits of this approach, "The magic of hell becomes the magic of theater; [Lucifer] is from Germany to Rome in a scene change and Helen of Troy is an actress waiting in the wings. His death comes at the end of the show, as the scenery and tech is dismantled around...