skidmore theater living newsletter
FALL 2014 Workshop #1: “A Public Reading…”
Cut To: Walt…Pauses By: Ryan Crotty Walking into the space of A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, it is easy to imagine you are about to see a conventional and linear production. The chairs were arranged interestingly, a minimal stage was set with four chairs, and Disney music […]
Fall Black Box 2013: “Polaroid Stories”
Ancient Stories Rise To New Life By: Grace Gerrish ’15 This semester’s black box production was a stunning intersection of myth and truth, of fantastical folklore and unflinching realism. Written by Naomi Iizuka and directed by Eunice Ferreira, Polaroid Stories ensnared the audience in the violent world of homeless urban youth, while taking inspiration from […]
Spring Black Box 2013: “Orlando”
Boys Will Be Girls By: Jon Lemay ’15 The act of reading a novel is cosmically different than the experience of seeing a play; different skills and sense are employed in the pursuit of each discourse. However, Skidmore’s Spring Black Box production of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, adapted by Sarah Ruhl, based on the novel Orlando: […]
Spring Mainstage 2013: “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
The Demon Barber Shocks and Astounds By: Grace Gerrish ’15 “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd! The Demon Barber of Fleet Street!” By the time the dramatic first ballad of the show finished, audience members were already hooked by this year’s spring production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by […]
STLN STAFF 2022-2023
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