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Invisible Art: Designing “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”
An Inside Look at the Design Team Behind “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” BY: Kallan Dana ’19 The less you think about theater design in performance, the better the designers have done their jobs. Such is the nature of theatrical design work, which strives to enhance the characters, story, and mood of a show. […]
Video Interview With Student Directors Hannah Baker and Theo Saroglou
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot runs in the JKB Black Box from March 3rd through March 9th. For ticketing information, click here: http://tinyurl.com/j5fua8m Shot by: Gabe Cohn ’16 and Max Helburn ’18 Edited By: Aaron Ardisson ’16
6 Questions For “Judas Iscariot” Actor Chris Naughton ’17
What is it like having to portray a real-life historical and biblical figure? There is literally a line in the show that says “Not much is known about Judas Iscariot.” So not much is know about him. But I’ve done a lot of research into the way Judas has been portrayed over the past couple […]
Spring 2016 Workshop #1: “Of White Walls and Words”
AN ESSAY ON ENDURANCE BY: BRANDON BOGLE ’16 “We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid.” That quote was one of the first we heard from the mouth of Tom Chandler’s embodiment of the long-dead personal essayist Michel de Montaigne, and it set the mood for the acute dissection of grief and loss that […]
7 Questions for Playwright Director Rachel Karp ’18
Rachel Karp’s new play, “Of White Walls and Words,” which follows the story of a grief-stricken young woman named Charlie and her conversations with the 16th-century essayist Michel de Montaigne, premiers as a workshop production at the JKB on February 21st. She is being interviewed here by Brandon Bogle, a senior theater major and staff writer. What are […]
Fall 2015 Mainstage: “Macbeth”
JKB Macbeth is Cinematic Shakespeare for the “Game of Thrones” Generation By: Gabe Cohn ’16 Midway through Macbeth’s “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” soliloquy, which by this point in history has been referenced by figures ranging from William Faulkner to Lin-Manuel Miranda, the doomed now-king describes a melancholy life full of “sound and fury.” Like Faulkner, director […]
Fall 2015 Workshop #4: “For Colored Girls…”
IN FOR COLORED GIRLS, A HUMAN CONNECTION BY: Gabe Cohn ’16 Midway through For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf, the “Lady in Green” (Brittany Kent ’18) begins an address to the audience by saying “Somebody almost walked off with all of my stuff.” This sentence becomes the anchor of […]
A Q&A Session with the cast of “Macbeth”
Right before the show opened, Newsletter Editor Gabe Cohn ‘16 sat down with Macbeth cast members Evy Yergan ’15 (Malca), Woodrow Proctor ’16 (Macbeth), Madeleine Emerick ’16 (Macduff/Assistant Fight Choreographer), Zachary Cohn ’16 (Lennox), and Rigel Harris ’16 (Lady Macbeth) to discuss the process of bringing Holly L. Derr’s gender-bent take on the “Scottish Play” to […]
Faculty Spotlight: Jared Klein
By: Mira Klein ’18 *This article originally appeared in print in The Skidmore Theater Newsletter. It has been transcribed from its original format* He does not see me standing in the corner. Focused on hanging lights, it is not until eventually decide to clear my throat that Jared Klein looks at his watch: “Lunch time already?” […]
VIDEO: Macbeth Fight Call
Before each performance of Macbeth, Assistant Fight Choreographer Maddy Emerick ’16 (Macduff) runs the cast through each fight sequence in the show. Check out the video below to see her fight with Woodrow Proctor ’16 (Macbeth) before the final dress rehearsal. Emerick says of the show’s combat, “Macbeth really runs the gamut. It has intimate […]
Fall 2015 Workshop #3: “Trompe L’Oeil”
Trompe L’Oeil, the newest of experimental director Aaron Ardisson ‘16’s forays into the worlds and minds of genius artists, leaves much to the viewer’s interpretation. Like Ardisson’s previous devised piece, Dacha, which created its own world out of three Anton Chekhov plays, Trompe L’Oeil throws convention out the window in exchange for experimentation, while attempting […]
Fall 2015 Workshop #2: “No Exit”
Other People By: ZACHARY COHN ’16 It begins in flickering light overhead, white and red. They suggest, somewhere beyond the black curtains of Studio A, the distant light of fire. Then, voices, as of three people speaking at the same time: a small chaos. Finally, a settling. A crisp young woman, black-suited, leads a bewildered […]
Fall 2015 Black Box: “Our Town”
Overlapping Presences in Soltanoff’s Our Town By: NICK GRAVER ’16 Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play and one of the most ubiquitous shows in American theater, hardly needs an introduction. Its established place in the canon of American theater means it is both well known and, by unfortunate extension, over-performed. It may have […]
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Founding Editor: Gabe Cohn ’16