Our Opening Night audience--a very full house.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Tartuffe is Open & Running Away with Laughs
Our Opening Night audience--a very full house.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
We have a new Facebook page!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Tartuffe Tech photos
Heather Vandergriff, the draper, works on Mariane's skirt.
Emily Robertson, the assistant costume designer, stands with a wig in our greenroom.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Q & A with a couple cast members
John Tillotson: Well, dining tables are very symbolic of group activities. Gathering for meals, discussions, holidays, etc. For more than 20 years I lived in NYC without one large, flat, smooth surface--not even a desk. Four or five years ago I finally was able to fit a table into my space. Well, it has changed my daily life immensely. No more meals with plates on laps. No more wrapping gifts on the floor. Now all those activities have a surface. But what is best is now that I can idle with friends over drinks & dinner, all relaxed and comfortable for hours on end, enjoying ourselves. (Sidenote: I recently used my table for a sawhorse and gouged a chunk out it. I shrugged--it gave the table additional purpose & character.)
DB: Hi Rosie. Your character in the play has lots of lazzi & the comedy seems second nature to you because it's so funny. I was wondering: what was the most recent favorite comedy that you were in?
Rosie McGuire: I'd have to say my own one woman show called Color Me Neurotic. I played over a dozen characters--some were very, very funny and some were quite tragic. But my favorite character was Kay-dee Bleeker--a homeless woman turned homeless dentist.
The audience was in love with this character, and loved her to a point where they would let her examine one of them. If she could finally get them to open their mouth, Kay-dee would then say, "That's it--yank it!" And the house would come down laughing. For me it was a comedy orgasm every night.
DB: Hey Gordon! Real quick: If Tartuffe was an animal or famous person or something, what or who would he be?
Gordon Weiss: Ah... probably Yosemite Sam, Bette Davis, and... a ferret.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Set building and storytelling
Nick Hussong, the master electrician, gets help from our new sound supervisor, Carrie Cook.
Tom watches Jennie slice and peel the plexi lining.
I found the fireman's pole! That very pole will be used for entrances during the play...
Carrie is seen helping the unseen Scout focus some lights backstage. The little console on top of the light plot at her feet is a remote control for the light board in the booth so that they can manipulate lights while they are close to them. (Note the pole on the left.)
Monday, June 1, 2009
WUNC in the Upstage Cabaret
His first guest was Mr. Jake Henry, the principal at the Newcomer's School here in Greensboro which serves primarily refugees from other countries in order to give them a transition into American public education.
The next guests were artists from Greensboro. On the left are George & Stephanie from Elsewhere Collaborative based just a little futher down on Elm Street than we are, and their living museum has a collection of things dating back to 1939 when George's grandmother began running myriad businesses there. On the right sits Harvey, who has a kitchen where he interviews local artists. Harvey's website is Monkeywhale.com.
Molly McGinn played with her band, Amelia's Mechanics, to round out the hour.
Molly explains how she got the name for the band as Laurelyn Dossett stands behind with a bass (a rare thing), and Kasey Horton looks on holding her viola.