Posts Tagged ‘Theatricum Botanicum’
THE LAST, BEST SMALL TOWN
Monday, August 16th, 2021
Two families living side by side in smalltown America, their teenage offspring head-over-heels in love, and an all-seeing, all-knowing stage manager serving as our narrator. Sound familiar?
Only the town in question isn’t Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. It’s Fillmore, California, the families are the Millers and the Gonzalezes, and the year is 2005 in John Guerra’s World Premiere wonder The Last, Best Small Town, now captivating audiences at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Monday, August 2nd, 2021
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a quarter-century tradition at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, is back for 2021, trimmed to ninety minutes and jam-packed with physical comedy and song performed by one of the finest Theatricum casts ever, most of them performing in it for the very first time.
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MOBY DICK – REHEARSED
Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
With metatheatrical stage adaptations of literary classics almost as commonplace today as cell phones and email, Orson Welles’ Moby Dick — Rehearsed feels like it could have been written last week and not way back in 1955. It’s also as thrilling a production as I’ve seen at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
Monday, August 12th, 2019
Climate change, natural disasters, cataclysmic war, and a leading lady who steps out of character to inform the audience that she doesn’t understand a word of the play in which she’s appearing. What must 1942 theatergoers have made of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin Of Our Teeth?
Check out Theatricum Botanicum’s zesty 2019 revival and savor for yourself this Greek Mythology-meets-The Bible-meets-Ancient History-inspired 20th-century classic, as charming as it is mind-blowing and as terrifically directed and performed as any Wilder fan could wish for.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Friday, August 9th, 2019
There’s no more bewitching way to spend a midsummer night than under the stars at William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a quarter-century Theatricum Botanicum tradition.
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AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Monday, August 5th, 2019Ellen Geer updates Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People to 1980 and Americanizes it to South Fork, South Carolina in a problematic World Premiere adaptation that would probably work better if its Theatricum Botanicum cast didn’t have a week off between each performance.
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TWELFTH NIGHT
Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
William Shakespeare’s star-crossed twins, mismatched lovers, and zany fools are as star-crossed, mismatched, and zany as ever this summer at Theatricum Botanicum, but this time round they burst into song in Ellen Geer’s enchanting Twelfth Night under Topanga skies.
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THE CHALK GARDEN
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
Brits don’t get more delightfully eccentric than the residents of Mrs. St. Maugham’s Sussex manor house in Enid Bagnold’s 1955 charmer The Chalk Garden, the latest Theatricum Botanicum gem.
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