The Final Countdown
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Well hey there everyone,
Long time no post on my end, and I’m sorry about that…it’s been a busy month. I want to start this post off in a shameless plug for a show I am involved in. Fenix Theatre Co. in Portland has been producing Shakespeare in the park this summer, and after a very successful run of Taming of the Shrew at the beginning of the summer, they are about to open A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I am a co-fight director for the project alongside the absolutely amazing Sally Wood (this woman had a C-section about 2 weeks prior to the first rehearsal, and she’s out there teaching things and kicking ass and taking names). It’s directed by Peter Brown who directed The History Boys for Madhorse Theatre Company, and having watched it, it’s gonna be awesome. A couple shoutouts to the cast as well, Seth Rigoletti (my drama teacher at Waynflete) is playing Demetrius, and Vano Kimmel (graduated from Waynflete with me, is now an Acting major at Clairmont) is playing a fairy in the fairy ensemble. I’ve loved working on the show, and I can’t wait to see it, and you all should too. It opens wendesday, and runs wednesday through saturday starting at 6 o’clock and runs for two weeks.
Alright beyond that, I took a class at the Maine Academy of Staged Combat in the teaching of basic staged combat (hand to hand, rapier, rapier and dagger, broadswords, stunts, and falls) and now have an IFDG recognized Certificate of Proficiency in teaching all of those styles, which was great fun, and has been very helpful for me. I am also now 3 weeks from being back in Ithaca, and I can not wait to head out. Yes I love being home, but I miss theatre, dance just isn’t the same without my classmates, and I’m kind of bored up here in the northeast. Besides I want to just get auditions for Top Girls (obviously not getting cast in the all-female play), Children of Eden, Eurydice, and Speech & Debate over with! That’s the fall lineup at IC and it’s a remarkably awesome season if you ask me. All the word from Dillingham is that the construction is running smoothly, and like all construction projects is behind schedule. Hopefully it’ll all work out for the year ahead.
I’m sitting here in beautiful Small Point at Witch Cottage, looking out over the harbor on a sunny deck. Yeah, Maine’s pretty awesome. I may be a little bored, but I am certainly happy up here, and what’s more, is that Nicole is coming up this weekend to stay for a few days! Her show on Long Island was phenomenal, she played Bianca in Taming of the Shrew. I took a ton of pictures for her, so check them out on her facebook page. That’s really all I have to report as of now. It’s up in the air as to what’s happening with Evil Dead. We want to make it a yearly event, but with the whole review process really coming down to the wire this semester, I’m not sure I’m going to have the mental capacity to get the show up. We graduated two seniors out of the show, our stage manager, and music director are in London for the semester, our makeup designer switched schools, and our Ed/Moose is in Russia for the semester. We’ll see what happens, but right now it is Matt, Elizabeth, and I putting our heads together to try and pull this off.
I hope everyone else is doing well, and to the Ithaca people who are reading this, I’ll be seeing you shortly!
All the love to everyone,
~Ned
Vano said:
Chapman, not Clairmont hahaha