tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38361045514784634212012-02-16T17:50:54.195-08:00Gloucester Stage Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467024124431996263noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836104551478463421.post-20977577689034143672008-06-04T09:02:00.000-07:002008-06-04T09:20:17.764-07:00<p align="right"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Iiy6kNHD-E0/SEa8_lD5w5I/AAAAAAAAAAY/eY9e7AcMQAM/s1600-h/08_BBGW_CURRENT.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208057819566818194" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Iiy6kNHD-E0/SEa8_lD5w5I/AAAAAAAAAAY/eY9e7AcMQAM/s320/08_BBGW_CURRENT.gif" border="0" /></a></p><div align="left">My left thumb is red with spray paint, I’ve been wearing the same torn and paint-dripped jeans since Friday, and every muscle in my scratched-up hands is weak from heavy gripping. I don’t think I’ve ever been so physically exhausted. But, as I used to say after sprinting the 400 in high school track, it hurts real good.<br /><br />Monday’s light hang was the worst of it. We started hanging lights at 9am and didn’t finish until 12:30 in the morning. With only one year under my belt since college where we used a scaffold to hang lights and the moveable seating units were easy to push out of the way, pushing and carrying ladders and wooden steps around seemed more a study in clowning than a light hang. We would climb a ladder, hang a light, climb down, get a cable, climb up, connect the cable, climb down, move the ladder three feet, climb up, tie the cable to the grid, climb down, move the ladder… By the end we could barely carry our bodies around let alone a ladder or a lamp. And it was beautiful.<br /><br />It’s beautiful to have the theatre full of designers creating something out of nothing. It’s beautiful to see the crew and designers working together and working hard to make the creations in their minds come to life. It’s beautiful to see a black box transform into another world. I am exhausted and sore and covered in paint, and that’s beautiful too.<br /><br />Trisha Hail<br />Assistant Production Manager</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3836104551478463421-2097757768903414367?l=gloucesterstage.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gloucester Stage Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467024124431996263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836104551478463421.post-59755619243027749042008-05-06T17:14:00.000-07:002008-05-06T17:29:40.533-07:00We are so excited to announce our 2008 season opening June 5th.<br />Here it is! Let us know what you think.<br /><br /><strong>June 5 - June 22</strong><br /><em>Billy Bishop Goes To War<br /></em><span style="font-size:85%;">A Play with Music</span><br />By John Gray and Eric Peterson<br />Directed by Scott LaFeber<br />Musical Direction by Will McGarrahan<br />Set to music, this journey follows a heroic World War I fighter pilot down in the trenches, up to the skies, through the halls of Buckingham Palace, and inside the human spirit as he attempts to reconcile his love of flying with the horrors of war. <br /><span style="font-size:85%;">“A HIGH-FLYING ACE OF A SHOW, CAPTURING THE HUMOR, THE HELLFIRE, AND THE DERRING-DO OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER!” - The New York Times<br /></span><br /><strong>June 26 - July 13<br /></strong><em>Enigma Variations<br /></em>By Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt<br />Translated by Jeremy Sams<br />Directed by GSC Artistic Associate David Zoffoli<br />Journalist Erik Larsen is offered an unprecedented interview with Abel Znorko, the lager than life author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This beautifully wrought psychological drama is sometimes a dual and sometimes a duet, but never what it appears to be.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">“...QUIRKY AND DELIGHTFUL...[KEEPS] US RIVETED THROUGHOUT WITH REVELATIONS AND REVERSALS..." - LA Weekly <br /></span><br /><strong>July 17 - August 3<br /></strong><em>Going to St. Ives<br /></em>By Lee Blessing<br />Directed by Eric Engel<br />Featuring Academy Award nominee Lindsay Crouse<br />and Elliot Norton Award winner Jacqui Parker<br />The lives of two powerful women, an affluent English doctor and the mother of an African dictator, become irrevocably intertwined in this captivating juxtaposition of black and white, order and chaos, heroism and hell. <br /><span style="font-size:85%;">“SPECTACULAR...EMOTIONALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY ENGROSSING...DAZZLING..."<br />- Philadelphia City Paper <br /></span><br /><strong>August 7 - August 24<br /></strong><em>Doubt, A Parable<br /></em>By Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley<br />Directed by Eric Engel<br />Featuring Nancy E. Carroll and Lewis D. Wheeler<br />Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award and the Tony Award for Best Play. This riveting morality play about events that may or may not have taken place in a 1964 Bronx convent and refectory comes to Gloucester in a production starring Elliot Norton Award winner Nancy Caroll of GSC’s <em>Collected Stories</em> and <em>My Old Lady</em> and Lewis D. Wheeler from A.R.T.'s <em>No Man's Land</em>.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Presented with sponsorship from the Goldhirsh Foundation.<br /></span><br /><strong>August 28 - September 14</strong><br /><em>The Woman in Black</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">A ghost play<br /></span>By Stephen Malatratt based on the novel by Susan Hill<br />Directed by Karen MacDonald of the American Repertory Theatre<br />Featuring Steven Barkhimer and Shelley Bolman<br />A lawyer harboring a wrenching fear and an actor hired to help him exorcise his tale take you on a journey to the secret-filled marshes of Nine Lives Causeway.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">"PROVIDES A PLEASURABLE RIPPLE OF FEAR DOWN ONE'S SPINE AND AN UNCOMFORTABLE LURCH IN THE PIT OF ONE'S STOMACH." - Time Out<br /></span><br /><strong>NEW PLAY READING SERIES<br /></strong>On the following evenings at 7PM<br />Each reading to be followed by a discussion.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Suggested Donation $20<br /></span><br /><a name="july6"></a><strong>Tue July 22:<br /></strong><em>The Threshing Floor</em><br />By James Ijames<br />Directed by Scott Edmiston<br />Performed by James Ijames<br />Based on the life and ideas of American writer and civil rights activist, James Baldwin. Mr. Ijames performance in GSC’s <em>Ponies</em> was acclaimed as one of the best of the 2007 season.<br /><br /><a name="july27"></a><strong>Sun July 27:</strong><br /><em>Sow and Weep</em> <br />By Nitzan Halperin<br />Directed by Judy Braha<br />Cast includes Nancy E. Carroll and Anne Gottlieb<br />A Palestinian law student and an Israeli peace activist must decide how to honor their families, their culture and their own beliefs in this intimate and unconventional exploration of the middle-east conflict.<br /><br /><a name="august17"></a><strong>Sun August 17:</strong><br /><em>The Hotel Plays<br /></em>By Israel Horovitz<br />Directed by Mr. Horovitz <br />Cast includes Ted Reinstein of WCVB TV’s “Chronicle” and Marianna BaashamSix new postage stamp plays all with Horovitz's trademark blend of comedy and drama.<br /><br /><a name="september7"></a><strong>Sun September 7:</strong><br /><em>His Master’s Voice<br /></em>By Frederic Kimball<br />Directed by David Wheeler<br />Cast includes Max Wright, Lisa Richards and Lewis D. WheelerA family tries everything, including a beautiful Romanian cellist, to lure their engineer father out of his basement laboratory. Culture, religion and science collide in this poignant family comedy.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3836104551478463421-5975561924302774904?l=gloucesterstage.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gloucester Stage Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467024124431996263noreply@blogger.com0