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After rehearsal, I sat with Drew, Katelyn, Tim Iversen (music director), Sophia Milton (assistant stage manager), and Tatum Sasser (assistant stage manager). Not surprisingly, the two directors spoke to the bigger picture of the production and how they have thought through the acting and musical numbers.…
To understand the absurdity of the promise the troupe of three makes to cover all of Shakespeare’s plays, consider the stats that literary wonks have made so readily available. It takes roughly one hour to perform 1,000 lines of a Shakespeare play. The average number of lines in a Shakespeare play ranges from 2,752 lines, if you use the Cambridge edition of his works, to 2,864 lines for the Globe edition. Which means any one play, on average, takes between…
Published in 1993, “Keely and Du” won both the American Theater Critics Association New Play Award in 1994 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the same year. The writer goes under the pen name of Jane Martin, but who that writer is remains a mystery.…
There are two items that show up in every single act: a rose and Oskar. When I asked Oskar which act he found most intriguing, [Note: I acknowledge that this was an obnoxious question given that all his fellow actors were sitting right there waiting to hear if he chose an act they were in, so I officially apologize to him here.] he talked about “Universal Language,” as he thinks the concept and execution are really fun.…
“I and You,” an award-winning play first performed in 2013, provides an engaging, funny, thoughtful evening of entertainment. It’s the story of one afternoon in the life of two high school-aged students, Anthony and Caroline, working together on an English Lit. project based on Walt Whitman’s poetry collection, “Leaves of Grass.”…
Iron String Press Extends Subscription Drive Benefitting NFPs By DARLA M. YOUNGSOTSEGO COUNTY Since August, new subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” newspaper and to the AllOtsego.com website have had the opportunity to assist their choice of one of four area charitable organizations by donating $5.00 of the fee when they subscribe annually. Thanks to the favorable results of this special offer, parent company Iron String Press Inc. has extended its “Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper” subscription drive through…
Kathakali is a classical dance theater form that originates from Kerala, India, dating back to the 17th century. The literal translation of Kathakali is “story-play” and involves highly stylized, elaborate make-up and costumes, and the retelling of great Indian epics through dance.…
You can watch “The Imaginary Invalid” in the Fine Arts Center’s Hamblin Theater on SUNY O’s campus September 29 and 30 (Friday and Saturday) at 7:30 p.m., October 1 (Sunday) at 2 p.m. or October 3 and 4 (Tuesday and Wednesday) at 7:30 p.m. for $6.00 general admission or free with a SUNY Oneonta ID (one person).…
ON STAGE: Performing Arts at Our Oneonta Campusesby Rachel Frick Cardelle SUNY Thespians Ready for Stagings of ‘boom’ Starting Thursday One of the benefits to living near a college that I have always appreciated has been the affordable access a college campus gives me to theater, music and dance performances. Living in Oneonta proves my point, for despite its small size there are abundant opportunities to see performing arts. I have noticed, though, that while the productions at both SUNY…
Column by Rachel Frick Cardelle Oneonta Through the Eyes of a Newcomer “And suddenly you know. It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”Meister Eckhart Throughout our lives, we can choose or have thrust upon us new beginnings. The past several years of a global pandemic, causing the shutting down and then slow reopening of our institutions and communities, has led to many of us ‘suddenly knowing’ it was time to start something new. I have…