Providence Gap Reading, a picnic & more in Boone

Last week we had a reading for Providence Gap up in Boone for the Appalachian Festival, the new Preston Lane & Laurelyn Dossett collaboration that we will producing on our mainstage in June of 2010.

The playwright and the composer talk to the cast during rehearsal for the reading.

Cinny Stickland reading Levathy Lovell.

Laurelyn Dossett singing "Lady of the Mountain."

Yours truly reading the stage directions.

Laurelyn Dossett on banjo with Christine Morris and Noah Duvarney reading.

Jeff West, Katy Sink, & TJ Austin.

Josh Yoder, TJ Austin, & Lee Spencer reading Nurvel Greene, Chance Presnell, & Jackson Johnson.

Josh Yoder & Ginny Lee.

Patrons persusing the dramaturgical boards in the Valborg lobby before a performance of Oleanna.

App. Heights where we where we resided and where we had a tech picnic.

John Wolf giving some straight talk.

Boone boys who helped us with the production: Grayson, Marshall, & Jason.

Sean Dumm on the Barby!

Carrie Cook & Lee Spencer.

Emily Mails surprised, but still very cool.

Christy Wright & Ginny Lee.

Preston says, "I ain't a-goin' on no gosh darn picnic!

I'm a-goin' to do some office chair calisthenics instead."

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Tech in Boone for Oleanna

We are teching are rehearsing Oleanna in Boone for the Appalachian Summer Festival.

Cumulus clouds pile up over the mountain tops boasting how beautiful Boone can be in the summer.

King Street in downtown Boone.

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John Wolf, the lighting designer, directs focus. He has designed the lights in such a way that highlights the combative nature of the play. He alludes to a boxing ring, but utilizes very neutral color.

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John Wolf, the man of light & shadow.

Nick Hussong, the master electrician, helps John with focus.

On genies and on ladders, in the air and on the ground, Nick Hussong is everywhere.

David Smith, the sound designer, reveals to Carrie Cook the implementation of his theory of "mid-side playback." The side speakers are hung in the middle of the house in such a way (pointed away from the stage so as to bounce off the back walls) which creates more a sense of a real environment.

Scout, the assistant stage manager, listens as Amy Peter explains to Lee Spencer how his computer is more than a prop.

Ginny Lee, Preston Lane, & Lee Spencer pause during tech rehearsal.

Preston Lane ponders the magic of theatre.

John Wolf is seen here wiring rope lights for the seating we have placed upstage.

Jennie Lynn, carpenter and sometime painter, touches up the set's ceiling.

Carrie Cook (sound supervisor), Amy Peters (props master), & Randy McMullen (scene designer) look over the phone and the Tele-Q-- a device that makes the phone ring independently and whenever we want.

Emily Mails, our cheery stage manager.

JOHN: ...that's my job don't you know...

CAROL: What is?

JOHN: To provoke you.

Oleanna Rehearsals Begin

We will be taking Oleanna up to Boone for the Appalachian Summer Festival later this month.

More info below...

Preston Lane, director.

Ginny Lee, playing Carol.


Lee Spencer, playing John.

Table work for Oleanna.

Ginny Lee (Carol) has also been seen at Triad Stage in Brother Wolf.

From the perspective of the dramaturg...

(i.e. me.)
We have been reading through the script, answering questions and trying to find the right rhythms.

Lee Spencer (John) has also been seen at Triad Stage in Little Foxes and the Upstage Cabaret production of Dracula. Sitting next to him is Scout, who is the assisant stage manager for this production.

Ginny Lee and Emily Mails, the stage manager.

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This year the Applachian Summer Festival is celebrating its 25th season. We will be performing Oleanna on July 21st & 22nd. And, on the 24th of July we will doing a reading of Providence Gap, the new Preston Lane & Laurelyn Dossett collaboration that is not only our last show this coming season at Triad Stage, but will also be performed at the Appalachian Summer Festival next year.

For more information about the Applachian Summer Festival click here.