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get attached to the actors... but not the characte get attached to the actors... but not the characters! #Repost - @elitetheatreco The Elite Theatre Company in Oxnard is thrilled to announce the cast for ANDRONICUS, running in December on the South Stage: The cast: Sindy L McKay-Swerdlove (Tita) Alyssa Carmen (Tamora) Ashley Maimes (Lavinia) Lindsay Styler (Lucius) Theresa Secor (Marcus) Susanna R. A. Miller (Saturninus) Genesis Perez (Chiron) Shelby Dickinson (Demetrius) Danna Zoe Ramirez Torres (Young Lucius, Mutius, Ensemble) Sharon Reinhold (Aemilius, Nurse, Bassianus, Alarbus, Ensemble) Emily Redman Hall (Quintus, Goth 1, Ensemble) Sophia Trese (Martius, Goth 2, Messenger, Ensemble) and Stan McConnell (Aaron) The play is an interpretation of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy, adapted and directed by Bill Walthall. Set after an apocalyptic pandemic has wiped out three-quarters of the male populace, this interpretation pits two warrior mothers against one another, locked into an ever-building cycle of revenge and violence, and leading to the inevitable conclusion that vengeance rots us all. A nine-performance run is scheduled from Friday, December 3 through Sunday, December 19, with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8pm, Sunday matinees at 2pm, and a special Thursday night show on December 16 at 8pm. NOTE: due to Channel Islands Harbor's annual Parade of Lights, there is no performance on Saturday, December 11. Tickets on sale soon!!! @stanmcc3 @reinhold.sharon @panicversuseuphoria @ashleyfaye6 @lindsay_styler @theresa.secor.5 @contraltosaurus @thealyssacarmen @sindymck @billwalthall @laura.comstock.96 @arrianamia @emma.mgarcia
Just want to say thank you to all the great and ta Just want to say thank you to all the great and talented actresses who came out yesterday and tonight for ANDRONICUS auditions... you guys rock. We still have a couple of young roles left to fill, so we're calling out for all high school and college age actresses who want to dive into Shakespeare (and his bloodiest tragedy) this fall, to join us for one last set of auditions at the @elitetheatreco on Tuesday evening at 6pm! No appointments necessary!
Last chance auditions for Andronicus tonight at Th Last chance auditions for Andronicus tonight at The Elite! #Repost - @elitetheatreco Busy Sunday at The Elite... don't miss Eleemosynary as it wraps up its OPENING WEEKEND in a 2pm matinee. Then come out and audition for ANDRONICUS from 6-9pm. No appointments needed... details at https://www.theelite.org/uncategorized/etcetera-stage-andronicus/
Don't forget today's (and tomorrow's) auditions at Don't forget today's (and tomorrow's) auditions at the Elite! No appointments necessary!
Don't forget this weekend's auditions for ANDRONIC Don't forget this weekend's auditions for ANDRONICUS at @elitetheatreco ! Now with more roles! Now with possible MALE roles! Check https://www.theelite.org/uncategorized/etcetera-stage-andronicus/ for details, and contact producer Laura Comstock at burkcom82 [at] gmail.com to schedule your audition (this way we can schedule you and lessen your wait time!)...
Prepping to host auditions next weekend! Prepping to host auditions next weekend!
Part of my physical therapy: daily fast walks Part of my physical therapy: daily fast walks
Don't miss out on Three-Dollar Thursday at The Eli Don't miss out on Three-Dollar Thursday at The Elite, and catch Salvatori before it closes this weekend! #Repost - @elitetheatreco As Salvatori reaches its final weekend, The Elite has a special offer: "Three-Dollar Thursday"!!! Come to The Elite, pay three dollars at the door, and see the play audiences have been calling "thought-provoking," "stunning," and "surprisingly funny." NO ONLINE SALES... Just show up at The Elite (wearing a mask and carrying your vaccination card and photo ID) and see LIVE THEATRE for just three bucks... CASH ONLY AT THE DOOR! First come, first seated... When the house is full, you're out of luck!!!
I know where I'll be tonight... coming out of hibe I know where I'll be tonight... coming out of hibernation for live theatre, babies! #Repost - @elitetheatreco Don't miss out on Salvatori's penultimate weekend! Tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/salvatori-tickets-165163274801
GET THE WORD OUT! #Repost - @elitetheatreco The GET THE WORD OUT! #Repost - @elitetheatreco The Elite Theatre Company is looking for talent to augment its [almost] all-female cast for ANDRONICUS, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Director Bill Walthall is looking for at least EIGHT actresses to join its ensemble for the following roles: THE ANDRONICI LUCIA/IUS – Tita’s warrior child, and her second in command; has own child (Young Lucius); played FEMALE (though I would accept debate on this); older than 30 years old; open race MARTIUS – one of Tita’s four surviving warrior children (gone after fifth scene); could be played ANY GENDER; older than 20 years old; open race [NOTE: actor may also play Goth 2, Messenger and Ensemble] MARCUS – Tita’s older sibling, a non-combatant but a tribune and political power-broker; could be played ANY GENDER; older than 50 years old (must be believable as Tita’s older sibling); open race THE OTHER ROMANS SATURNINUS – the late Emperor’s elder son; played MALE; younger than 30 years old; open race THE GOTHS TAMORA – the captured Queen of the Goths (a combination of strength, regality, and sensuality); played FEMALE; 40-55 years old; open race; DEMETRIUS – Tamora’s child; could be played ANY GENDER (though I’m leaning male); 20-25 years old; open race CHIRON – Tamora’s other child; could be played ANY GENDER (though I’m leaning male); younger than 20 years old; open race IN-PERSON auditions will take place on Saturday, October 9 at NOON, and Sunday, October 10 at 6pm. Rehearsals will then begin on Monday, October 11. The run of the show–on the South Stage–will be from December 3 – 19, with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings as well as Sunday afternoons (NOTE: there will be a Thursday night performance on December 16, and NO PERFORMANCE on Saturday December 11). NOTE: ALL ACTORS MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED AND MASKED WHILE WAITING. Please bring proof of vaccination along with your headshot and resume. For more information, including audition sides, check out https://www.theelite.org/uncategorized/etcetera-stage-andronicus/ If interested, please contact producer Laura Comstock at burkcom82 [at] gmail.com to schedule your audition!
Just finished watching the Anthony Sher / Harriet Just finished watching the Anthony Sher / Harriet Walter Macbeth on Kanopy. Holy sh!t. Gives me so many ideas...
Vote, my California friends! Vote, my California friends!
Check out my cone-of-shame (and a hint of my scar) Check out my cone-of-shame (and a hint of my scar)... At least my voice is back...
Now that I've had time to decompress... my feeling Now that I've had time to decompress... my feelings on the close of 7-Player Cymbeline... #Repost - @fmshake And like that </snaps_his_fingers> it was over. 7-Player Cymberline. A nice litte experiment. And like all experiments (especially initial ones), not entirely successful, but with lessons learned and enough success to make one feel like something was accomplished. At the beginning of summer, I had said that if we get five performances in, I'd be happy. Even with the last two weeks cancelling, we got six in. And in those six performances, we brought FREE Shakespeare to nearly 150 audience members, pulled in over $650 in donations, and freakin' paid the actors. Would I change things? Sure...but only minor things. Would I do it again? You bet your ass. In fact, I'm considering a rewrite and a venture into next year's Hollywood Fringe Festival. And is this it for FireMuse Shakespeare? No freaking way. I'm mapping out two possible shows for next summer (will only do one of them if we go to Fringe), and there's still this year's Sonnet Project to complete. My surgery and the fourth wave of the pandemic put a crimp in the end of 7PC, but I'm pretty damned proud of what we've accomplished. And that we includes our effervescent Imogen, Lauren Rachel, our Posthumus/Cloten (and Melvin's stunt-double) the never-off Scott Blanchard, the ever-royal Stan McConnell, the uber-talented Sarah Boughton (without whose generosity both onstage and off continues to astound), badass scene-thief Adam Womack, the wonderfully versatile Sindy McKay, the rock-solid Christopher Rubin, and Theresa Secor (whose park Shakespeare experience was crucial to us achieving what we did)--not to mention the wonderful help provided by Christine Adams as our rehearsal stage manager. I can proudly say we helped live theatre come back after the Plague Year...we were the first live in-person show many saw after a long time off. And I think we did right by them, by the play, and by ourselves. Onward!
This is a bummer, and certainly not the close of t This is a bummer, and certainly not the close of the summer that I had hoped for back in May, but it is what it is... and I cannot thank the cast and crew of this show enough for one of the best artistic experiences of my life. #Repost - @fmshakes1 NEWS: A member of the 7-Player Cymbeline company was exposed to a breakthrough infection of COVID last week, and though the company member in question has tested negative for the virus, out of an abundance of caution, and for the protection of both the company and our audience, Saturday's 2pm performance in Oxnard has been cancelled. This ends the summer run of FireMuse Shakespeare's inaugural production, and we thank both the company and our audiences for a great experience... see you next summer (or sooner)!
Killer job, @aldanwasman ... spoiler: there was a Killer job, @aldanwasman ... spoiler: there was a spit-take moment for me... you have been warned! #Repost - @fmshakes1 . Sonnet 102 My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear; That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming, The owner's tongue doth publish every where. Our love was new, and then but in the spring, When I was wont to greet it with my lays; As Philomel in summer's front doth sing, And stops his pipe in growth of riper days: Not that the summer is less pleasant now Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night, But that wild music burthens every bough, And sweets grown common lose their dear delight. Therefore like her, I sometime hold my tongue: Because I would not dull you with my song. performed by actor and director Alan Waserman follow FireMuse Shakespeare at fmshakes1.com and @fmshakes1 on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter full video at https://youtu.be/7mw6Nf1tYtk
Part two of my sonnet duet experiment with my wife Part two of my sonnet duet experiment with my wife, the lovely and talented @lisawalthall #Repost - @fmshakes1 . Sonnet 101 O truant Muse what shall be thy amends For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed? Both truth and beauty on my love depends; So dost thou too, and therein dignified. Make answer Muse: wilt thou not haply say, 'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fixed; Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay; But best is best, if never intermixed'? Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb? Excuse not silence so, for't lies in thee To make him much outlive a gilded tomb And to be praised of ages yet to be. Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how To make him seem, long hence, as he shows now. performed by Kindergarten teacher Lisa & actor, director, and educator Bill Walthall follow FireMuse Shakespeare at fmshakes1.com and @fmshakes1 on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter follow Bill at @billwalthall on Instagram full video at https://youtu.be/ktKFeAcSDL8
sonnet as duet.... with my wife, the lovely @lisaw sonnet as duet.... with my wife, the lovely @lisawalthall ... one of a double feature (part two coming Wednesday)... #Repost - @fmshakes1 . Sonnet 100 Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long, To speak of that which gives thee all thy might? Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song, Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light? Return forgetful Muse, and straight redeem, In gentle numbers time so idly spent; Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem And gives thy pen both skill and argument. Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey, If Time have any wrinkle graven there; If any, be a satire to decay, And make Time's spoils despised every where. Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life, So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife. performed by Kindergarten teacher Lisa & actor, director, and educator Bill Walthall follow FireMuse Shakespeare at fmshakes1.com and @fmshakes1 on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter follow Bill at @billwalthall on Instagram full video at https://youtu.be/osr1LGjCXKU
Who knows...I may even venture out and make my fir Who knows...I may even venture out and make my first post-op public appearance... (or not) #Repost - @fmshakes1 Don't miss out.... one last free public show... OXNARD next Saturday! Get your tickets now! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7-player-cymbeline-oxnard-828-new-date-tickets-159743879243
15 days out... recovery is happening, but too damn 15 days out... recovery is happening, but too damned slow for my personality...
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