Role(s) – Johnny
Company/School – Sarah Lawrence College
Date(s) – 2006/04
Director – Charlie Hensley
Writer – Andrew Irons
Photo(s) – N/A
Review(s) – N/A
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PURPLE CREEK
Monday, April 4 – 7:30 pm (2006), Sound and Movement Room, Second Floor, PAC Purple Creek is a town that has spent three generations cut off from the rest of the world, surrounded by a pack of wolf-people. PURPLE CREEK is a play about the power of generations and what it means to fight to live instead of merely surviving. The play ultimately asks the question: how much control do we have over our existence? Join the SLC Theatre Program for a reading of PURPLE CREEK by Andrew Irons, directed by Charlie Hensley, featuring Cory Antiel, Arlene Casimir, Leyla Ebtehadj, Michael Levine, Gary Ploski, and Melissa Shaw. There will be a brief discussion with the playwright, moderated by Cassandra Medley, immediately following the reading.
Production experience
I got to play another dad! WOW! Never saw that coming. Being one of the few male grad actors I seem to be blessed lucky type cast this year.
Rehearsal was strange because we were blocking the reading. It’s a reading not a performance. Due to this it was obvious that the actors were thinking about their movement and trying to stay on book. It can be very frustrating. A certain level of passive aggressiveness floated through the room during rehearsals that was uninviting to creativity and made some actors unwilling to experiment.
The show was fun, in that, puppets were used during the performance. When the puppeteers arrived I found myself extremely interested in what they were doing instead of what I needed to do. A strange and fun moment of unexpected artistic interest in a form I know very little about.