Role(s) – Talthybius
Company/School – Sarah Lawrence College
Date(s) – 2008/05
Director – Ed Sherin
Writers – graduate and undergrate students
Photo(s) – N/A
Review(s) – N/A
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5/8-5/10: THE TROJAN WOMEN: 7 pm, PAC Wright Theatre
“Love will come to rule the world when women rule the world.” Anne Beaumont, Elizabeth Ostler, James Veitch, and Rachel Wood direct THE TROJAN WOMEN, with the members of Ed Sherin’s “Intuitive and Impulsive Exploration of Text.”
Production experience
In simple terms – I had a blast performing as Talthybius. Playing with the rage, frustration, sadness, loss, etc. every performance was great.
The show itself was presented in the way I enjoy plays: basic costuming and practically no set. Sure it was on stage and there were lights, music, and sound but that was about all. The imagination played a vital role in show.
If there was one thing I could have asked to be different it would have been the script. It was a mash-up script from a number of sources – fine, fine, fine. The original trouble was the length and then it was the group think. I do not believe that the actors should have been a part of the editing process. The writers should have met and agreed on what to cut and what to keep.
Because of a loose script in the hands of the cast hours and hours were spent talking instead of rehearsing. Time we never got back.
Fortunately it came together but I believe it could have been even stronger with that one production change.