tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18059348044491826812024-03-05T11:05:08.506-07:00Rosebud Colored Glassesbehind-the-scenes at Rosebud TheatreKrista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-71893206298675123512021-09-24T13:44:00.004-06:002021-09-24T18:21:14.960-06:00A Change of Heart -- the only tonic for our time<p><span style="font-family: Avenir, serif;">It’s
been a difficult year and a half - crippling for many. And it’s not just the
adverse things beyond our control that have been crippling. What seems unique
in this time is our inability to tolerate one another. It seems impossible to
believe that those on the other side of whatever ideological divide we might be
tuned to are in fact good at heart - maybe even like-minded in some way.
There’s a lyric from an early Sting song that says, "I hope the Russians love
their children too.” He wrote that song early in his musical career, when a
wall divided East and West Berlin, and the world was haunted by the lingering
residue of the Cold War. The divide he wrote the song for pales in comparison
to the acute divide we feel in our own province and country - even in our own neighbourhoods and communities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">How did we get to such a place?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">Jesus
had apt words for times such as this. He called for us to love our enemies and
to bless those who persecute us. I am reminded of the image of a painted faced
young woman placing a daisy into the rifle barrel of a military policeman
during a Vietnam war protest. To what end? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">I’m
sure in her courageous idealistic mind that could well have been inspired by
Jesus words - to miraculous end. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyovk4mhMkXiw0aUvhXT1JyplL1p4oBUZAKlj-KanKcsYfSoRUkUWOZUlTL-H6DswzLMxU8m-R-qAZ-wBwyMczilc0fb6ZjsEvjvfuCXOl0JI03paBGpiQHtFd8EIuhoRyNqlJ-4X2yG0/s320/Kent+State.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="132" data-original-width="320" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyovk4mhMkXiw0aUvhXT1JyplL1p4oBUZAKlj-KanKcsYfSoRUkUWOZUlTL-H6DswzLMxU8m-R-qAZ-wBwyMczilc0fb6ZjsEvjvfuCXOl0JI03paBGpiQHtFd8EIuhoRyNqlJ-4X2yG0/s0/Kent+State.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">I’m
reminded of Scrooge’s tenaciously loving nephew Fred, who invites his miser
Uncle to Christmas dinner. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">It’s
not an accident that Dickens sets up Scrooge’s change of heart with a naively
spirited invitation from a relative. Why invite someone to dinner who will most
likely ruin the event? What possible good can come of that? What is so powerful
about the invitation is that it not only shows us how bereft Scrooge is, it
also shows us how radiant the bearer of a hopeful invitation to the most
miserly among us can be. Nephew Fred is a walking lantern of grace. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">This
November and December, we’re bringing <i>A Christmas Carol</i>, starring Nathan
Schmidt as a street-wise Storyteller who plays all of the characters, back to
our stage. Because the story is a reflection of what we believe. People can be
transformed from bitter to radiant through divine encounters. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">To
miraculous end. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6cK8zRE7GlldUyC4eN55se6DZoefXFUCGQXypx-aZadaFC3E8ll4JHs0nvKHdLsAaLZSnt-Qy9vfWWPspw9TwDvrDoDQ6CtyiaD6RELd0j7lwcubLkKNs6CsWMhuptsru0SqJNcGiX0g/s320/Christmas+Carol+arms+wide.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="127" data-original-width="320" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6cK8zRE7GlldUyC4eN55se6DZoefXFUCGQXypx-aZadaFC3E8ll4JHs0nvKHdLsAaLZSnt-Qy9vfWWPspw9TwDvrDoDQ6CtyiaD6RELd0j7lwcubLkKNs6CsWMhuptsru0SqJNcGiX0g/s0/Christmas+Carol+arms+wide.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">The
thought that the dead of winter could be the most hopeful and heart thawing
time of the year will be reflected in this year’s Rosebud School of the Arts
student production of <i>“Christmastide: Music and Stories of the Coming
Light.”</i> Along with an ensemble of students, David Snider is compiling a
beautiful collection of Christmas stories and songs that embody the title. He
will also direct the production - beautifully lit with lantern light - on the
Studio Stage. And Peter Balkwell of <i>The Old Trouts </i>will aid in the
visual movement of the piece. It’ll be evocative and wonderful - a perfect
companion to <i>A Christmas Carol</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">A
visual and poetic feast to miraculous end …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYQhNeohSybgPi6mxwiYfFBKAMtRxIV1NumbcIqA6HlaxHgOBekTiMsXcjqFEZQKGijQ-4-723WaBORokB1luruGWy3HR9deTx14bZUEff1TTZnOPh-6yJoFfvzDgxhvd4jbNTlD29nlg/s1920/candles+in+winter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1920" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYQhNeohSybgPi6mxwiYfFBKAMtRxIV1NumbcIqA6HlaxHgOBekTiMsXcjqFEZQKGijQ-4-723WaBORokB1luruGWy3HR9deTx14bZUEff1TTZnOPh-6yJoFfvzDgxhvd4jbNTlD29nlg/s320/candles+in+winter.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">And
of course Christmas brings with it the Annual Rosebud Christmas Concert December 5th under
the direction of Bill Hamm. The theme - hope. Hope that in the face of
restrictions and frustrations and a seeming lack of trust, music will soften
our hearts toward one another.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">An
event which holds the promise of miraculous end. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">But
even before all of that, we’ll reopen our Opera House Stage this October 15 - 31 with a guest production called <i>Tomatoes Tried Killed Me But Banjos Saved My
Life.</i> It’s a true story about a Corporate Executive named Keith Alessi
whose life is changed when he chooses to follow his passion for playing the
banjo. What is so wonderfully wonderful about the show is he fact that Keith
Alessi is performing it himself. It’s his story! And he shares it with warmth
and humour and music. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">A
true story with a miraculous end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh2jhZiGSIZkzT_AZM7XHKTIgNMRcnVaNovJTqK1v-g8XynGU_AVGECstWiu8p6xS-0QEJLFg7o1C14vP2d_lLJLxqCBSm48XkBzm9vLh3XFiUvFZn6c5tOKdi-idaNcMloMnhr5tnkks/s1024/Keith+Alessi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh2jhZiGSIZkzT_AZM7XHKTIgNMRcnVaNovJTqK1v-g8XynGU_AVGECstWiu8p6xS-0QEJLFg7o1C14vP2d_lLJLxqCBSm48XkBzm9vLh3XFiUvFZn6c5tOKdi-idaNcMloMnhr5tnkks/s320/Keith+Alessi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">Why
such obsession with miracles? The truth is the past year and a half has been
filled with miracles. It’s a bit of a miracle that we’re able to emerge from
COVID. There have been financial gifts -small and large - that can only be
described as acts of grace that have kept us going. To us, such gifts are
miracles, because they have kept the lights on in a dark time. What do we do in
the face of such kindness but pass on the good news that there is indeed grace
in the world, for new beginnings, for changes of heart, and for light in dark
times. Rosebud Theatre and School of the Arts exist to trumpet that news out
into the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">There
is hope! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">There
is reason for optimism! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">And
we believe stories of grace are the tonic that can heal hearts-made-hard in
divisive times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7AQL6M6ZGzPyQc0aUzPH1VXmeQL7lKG0Jfmn_K-OaDanaG5VtPqkj0U8aJA1_Ix4rInEns4dHb52DAEZ18jV50IH1YT39bzBAcaDHaZ9N713Xv3TQ-l4TGbhFZgxbzy8MuLbvn6zZoio/s262/Christmas+Carol%253B+flower+scrim.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="241" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7AQL6M6ZGzPyQc0aUzPH1VXmeQL7lKG0Jfmn_K-OaDanaG5VtPqkj0U8aJA1_Ix4rInEns4dHb52DAEZ18jV50IH1YT39bzBAcaDHaZ9N713Xv3TQ-l4TGbhFZgxbzy8MuLbvn6zZoio/s0/Christmas+Carol%253B+flower+scrim.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">We’re
back on stage and our doors are open. Please join us in the anticipation of a
miraculous end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir",serif;">Morris
Ertman - Artistic Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Jeany Meltebeke Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487554044023340046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-18522396161728928932020-04-06T10:55:00.000-06:002020-04-06T10:55:12.923-06:00Come From Away to Stay Home<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>Following
is an International Theatre Trip blog by Jeany Snider - Resident Rosebud Theatre
Artist and Rosebud School of the Arts recruitment officer. She was supposed to
be in rehearsals for <u>Glorious</u>, where she was to play Florence Foster Jenkins.
Instead, she’s written a blog about her experience in New York, where she
traveled along with a gaggle of RSA students to attend plays, participate in
workshops and drink in what New York’s theatrical world had to offer by way of
inspiration and education. It’s a fantastic part of RSA’s training curriculum -
trips to Canada’s West Coast in their first year, and then consecutive trips to
the West End of London, New York and Toronto. </i> </div>
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<i>These
are the students that under the mentorship of Resident Company Members like
Jeany, hope to appear in future Rosebud Theatre seasons. </i></div>
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<i>Over
to you, Jeany!</i><o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>Thanks Morris. These excursions into theatre in other parts of the world have been an instrumental catalyst for inspiration, challenge, and eye-opening possibilities for our students, not to mention the confidence built in navigating a busy city. --As you will see, I started my blog before COVID reached my daily life, and finished it after a couple weeks of new perspective. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN489FgGJuFZEmbMTMlJEHK5Manhs1sOdQjCPOiqnEqZsHQthlxm2EmIimtW5iQ2lPmNa1qkt0rH7GLlYad76cwKDVsKewsjKtPhj5RuXpVLoNTTKtaHWh3CDNcCkMnVNa8gOkFikRTbI/s1600/IMG_1277.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1203" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN489FgGJuFZEmbMTMlJEHK5Manhs1sOdQjCPOiqnEqZsHQthlxm2EmIimtW5iQ2lPmNa1qkt0rH7GLlYad76cwKDVsKewsjKtPhj5RuXpVLoNTTKtaHWh3CDNcCkMnVNa8gOkFikRTbI/s320/IMG_1277.HEIC" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Time Square Feb 21, 2020</td></tr>
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On March 5, I returned home from a 15 day excursion into cityness and theatre. Yes, you read that right: "city-ness". I did not realize how much I needed to get out of Rosebud in order to appreciate what I have <span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">here</span>. You know, things like - a car, quiet, fresh air, work within walking distance, my own bathroom, bed, and kitchen. But there are also things that I don't easily encounter in Rosebud that were all around me in New York City and Toronto. Things like public transit, people without homes, super tall buildings, large bodies of water, noise, all flavours of smoke, pavement, and pizza by the slice.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Radio City Music Hall with Rosebud students</td></tr>
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One of the things I was struck with was the smallness of some of the theatres. They aren't all slick and state of the art. Okay, some of them are, like<span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span></span>Radio City Music Hall and the new Mirvish CAA mega black box with a balcony on Yonge St., but others are quirky and awkward; <span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">tiny, </span>found spaces repurposed to tell stories in the midst of clanking pipes and heating issues, ancient lighting and old velvet stained chairs. Walking through The Factory Theatre in Toronto reminded me so much of Rosebud. They make do with what they have and expand into their theatre space after they rehearse in a much smaller space with old Victorian windows. In Rosebud, we're allowed to rehearse in a beautiful church, also with lots of windows, and when we move into the Opera House we make adjustments for the levels, the doors, the lights and the raked stage. This experience opened my eyes to how every space has a history and can become a home for gathering to share story.<br />
But regardless of how glorious or inglorious the space, the simple truth is that sometimes theatre works and sometimes it doesn't. Even well-intended theatre can flop; and this can happen anywhere... Similarly, any small theatre can have a production that soars and inspires and totally works. It inevitably starts with a story that resonates, then somehow in the generous<i> telling </i>of<i> </i>it, the hearts and minds of those receiving are captivated so that everyone is focused on the same moment of truth at the same time. When this happens, you can sense it, and you come away inspired, challenged, grateful, and changed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Come From Away at the Schoenfeld, NYC</td></tr>
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Theatre totally worked when I saw the Canadian story<u> Come From Away</u>. The day before, Mentorship students and I had visited Ground Zero and the World Trade Center. This was a sobering, rainy-day experience that invited somber contemplation. It was a kind of pilrimage for me to stand in the place that had been the center of such destruction almost 20 years ago. So when the lights went down in the packed Schoenfeld Theatre and we started tracking the individual journeys of people flying on that fateful day on 9/11, I was already in. Tears slid down my face throughout the next hour and a half and I was so grateful. Grateful to witness some of my dearest values ring true for people in hard times. Grateful to have such rich culturally specific characters, music, awkwardness, humour, fear, angst, loss and love resound in my core. The stories were so particular, so human, and so full of longing for life and connection. There is something about a tragedy and being stuck away from home that makes you keenly of aware of your hopes and needs. And to watch the people of Gander embrace this challenge by coming together and do what they could to keep everyone alive was heroic and inspiring. I was challenged too, by the journey of those stranded, and the humility they had to embrace to receive the help they so desperately needed. I was undone how this awful circumstance forged an unlikely but necessary, beautiful community. I resonated with their pain and thrilled to their courage and grace as boundaries came down.<br />
I love that theatre is a collaborative art that goes one step beyond the creative family to the generous sharing with any who draw near to receive; the audience.<br />
...<br />
I wrote the above section before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and the humans of planet earth had their lives changed all in the same month.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Minutes at The Cort (<span style="font-size: xx-small;">We were allowed to photograph before the show.</span>)</td></tr>
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It is now April 2020. I still love theatre... but I don't know when I will get to do it again. I'm stunned that shows I just saw in NYC are not running now. Even newly opened shows like <u>The Minutes </u>by Tracy Letts... I am one of comparatively few who can say they saw it on Broadway. I can hardly picture Times Square not being overrun with streams of people... Are the billboards still glowing and fighting for attention? Are the pigeons starving? Are the subways still running underground?<br />
The world has changed, but have I? Hard to say yet. What I do know is that now more than ever I long for community. I don't want people to be afraid to draw near to one another and breathe the same air and witness the same truth. When and how will we be able to do that again?<br />
In a way, we are experiencing our own <u>Come From Away</u>; only this time it is "Do Not Stray", or rather "STAY HOME". I don't want to fret about my family back in the States suddenly needing me, but I do. I acknowledge there are those on the front lines <b>not able </b>to stay home, but for those of us trying to make sense of the new normal, now I say, there is something about a tragedy and being stuck <i>at</i> <i>home</i> that makes you keenly of aware of your hopes and needs.<br />
Like many of you, I don't know how our livelihoods will recover, or if our economy and environment will find a new way to dance together, but I hope they will. Because there is one thing that many of us can no longer ignore: we are all human and we all affect one another and we all need one another to work together to save our countries, our species, and our planet. Just like in Gander when the bus drivers had to lay down their right to justice and everyone came together to do the right thing at a time when most of the world stood still and watched, we are invited to this new unlikely but necessary and beautiful community. Now we watch and wonder, but deep down, we long for GOOD.<br />
Wherever we are, and however we share stories in the future, no matter how glorious or inglorious the space, may we all come away come away inspired, challenged, grateful, and changed. <br />
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God give us eyes to see what you would have us see, wisdom to act upon what you would have us do, and courageous love to be who you would have us be.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rosebud Theatre is showing "Letter From Wingfield Farm" March 6-8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> written by Dan Needles and performed by actor Rod Beattie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Letter"
is the first in a series of seven plays about stockbroker-turned-farmer
Walt Wingfield. Rosebud presented all seven plays in the series, at the
rate
of one per year, from 2013 to 2019, and is now about to present the
first play for a second time.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">For more information browse through <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-ogsc="" href="http://www.wingfieldfarm.ca/" id="LPlnk959176" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.wingfieldfarm.ca</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">CALL: 1-800-267-7553 for tickets. Sunday May 8 has the most availability. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I had the privileged to engage in conversation with Wingfield director Doug Beattie. Here's our interchange:</span> </span></b><br />
Jeany: Doug Beattie -- Nowhere in your bio does it say that you are related
to Rod. I have to ask, what's the connection? And have you two worked
together before? Tell us a story about the first time and any other
details of your working relationship.<br />
<i>DOUG:
WE'RE BROTHERS. WE'VE WORKED TOGETHER ON THE WINGFIELD SERIES SINCE
1984, ALONG WITH OUR CHILDHOOD FRIEND, THE PLAYWRIGHT, DAN NEEDLES. ROD
WAS ACTUALLY AN EMERGENCY REPLACEMENT WHEN HE FIRST PERFORMED LETTER
FROM WINGFIELD FARM - ON ONLY FOUR DAYS REHEARSAL!
(WE WERE A LOT YOUNGER THEN.)</i><br />
Jeany: Did the Wingfield series start as a
series or as the first play? How has the vision changed over the 30+
years and where do you see it going next?<br />
<i>DOUG: AT FIRST WE WERE JUST
TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST PLAY WE COULD TO PLEASE OURSELVES AND WHOEVER
WANTED
TO SHOW UP TO SEE IT. IT WASN'T UNTIL AFTER THE FIRST PLAY BECAME A HIT
THAT WE THOUGHT ABOUT DOING A SEQUEL. AFTER THAT, WE ADDED SEQUELS EVERY
THREE OR FOUR YEARS AS MORE GOOD STORIES OCCURRED TO DAN AND ROD. IN
THE EARLY PLAYS, STOCKBROKER-TURNED-FARMER
WALT WINGFIELD (OUR PROTAGONIST) IS A CLASSIC FISH-OUT-OF-WATER
CHARACTER. GRADUALLY HE BECOMES MORE ACCLIMATIZED TO THE RURAL
ENVIRONMENT, AND THE SERIES TAKES ON LARGER THEMES.</i><br />
Jeany: Who is your
favorite character and why?<br />
<i>DOUG: THAT'S A BIT LIKE ASKING WHO IS YOUR
FAVOURITE CHILD. I'LL DUCK THE QUESTION BY SAYING THAT WALT'S NEIGHBOURS
ON THE SEVENTH LINE, FREDDY, DON AND THE SQUIRE, APPEAR IN EVERY PLAY
AND ARE PERENNIAL AUDIENCE
FAVOURITES. ANOTHER AUDIENCE FAVOURITE IS FREDDY'S SISTER MAGGIE, WHO
EVENTUALLY BECOMES WALT'S WIFE. FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T SEEN A WINGFIELD
PLAY, I SHOULD MENTION THAT ACTOR ROD BEATTIE PLAYS ALL THE CHARACTERS
HIMSELF. IN THE FIRST AND SECOND PLAYS, EXCEPT
FOR A FEW NOTABLE FEMALE ECCENTRICS, ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE MEN. IT TOOK
US UNTIL THE THIRD PLAY TO FIGURE OUT THAT THE AUDIENCE WOULD BE HAPPY
TO ACCEPT ROD AS A (FAIRLY) NORMAL, ATTRACTIVE WOMAN, AS WELL. MAGGIE
HAS BEEN A REGULAR IN THE CAST EVER SINCE.</i><br />
Jeany: Where do you live?<br />
<i>DOUG: STRATFORD ON. </i><br />
Jeany: Where would you live if you could?<br />
<i>DOUG: STRATFORD ON.</i><br />
Jeany: Perfect. --I love this quote: "The third partner, invisible but important, is director
Douglas Beattie, who keeps it all seeming simple, but actually being
quite complex." (- The Toronto Star).
Can you let us in on some of the complexity? I'm imagining that much of
your impetus for staging was prompted by Rod and his characterizations,
but where does your invisible hand move in?<br />
<i>DOUG: IT ISN'T JUST MY
HAND. AS YOU IMAGINED, IT'S A TEAM EFFORT. I
BELIEVE THE SIMPLICITY REFERRED TO IN THE QUOTATION LIES MAINLY IN THE
DESIGN AND THE STAGING WE/ I HAVE CHOSEN, WHICH COULDN'T BE MORE BASIC
AND STRAIGHTFORWARD. THE COMPLEXITY LIES IN THE CHARACTERIZATIONS AND IN
DAN'S DEPTH OF INSIGHT INTO THE RURAL COMMUNITY.
MY JOB AS DIRECTOR IS TO MAKE SURE NOTHING ABOUT THE PRODUCTIONS GETS IN
THE WAY OF THE AUDIENCE'S ABILITY TO PERCEIVE AND APPRECIATE THAT
COMPLEXITY.</i><br />
Jeany: Alberta is a land divided between old fashioned
values and the pressures of our changing world. How do you see Walt
navigating those same challenges?<br />
<i>DOUG: IN THE FIRST PLAY WALT TAKES UP
FARMING IN AN ATTEMPT TO EMBRACE A SIMPLER, MORE MEANINGFUL EXISTENCE
THAN HE HAS EXPERIENCED IN THE CORRIDORS OF FINANCE. HE THINKS OF HIS
MOVE AS A PERSONAL STAND IN THE TRADITION OF THOREAU. BUT BY THE END OF
THAT FIRST PLAY, HE HAS DISCOVERED SOMETHING EVEN BETTER - HE'S BECOME
PART OF A BELOVED COMMUNITY. AS THE SERIES CONTINUES,
WALT IS SOMETIMES PANICKED ABOUT THE WINDS OF CHANGE WHICH SEEM TO
THREATEN HIS RURAL PARADISE. HIS NEIGHBOURS TEND TO BE MORE ACCEPTING OF
CHANGE AND MORE RESILIENT IN DEALING WITH IT. WALT TAKES COMFORT IN
THAT.</i><br />
Jeany: What are the contents of your pocket right now?<br />
<i>DOUG: LINT AND A
TORONTO SUBWAY TOKEN THAT I'M NOT SURE I CAN STILL USE. IT COST ME
ALMOST FOUR BUCKS A YEAR AGO!</i><br />
Jeany: What's your impression of Rosebud?<br />
<i>DOUG: THE CLOSEST I'VE BEEN TO ROSEBUD MYSELF IS DRUMHELLER. YOU FOLKS
AT THE THEATRE HAVE TAKEN GOOD CARE OF ROD ON ALL HIS PREVIOUS VISITS,
SO MY PRESENCE HAS NEVER BEEN REQUIRED. ROD HAS BROUGHT HOME SOME GREAT
ROSEBUD
STORIES, I MUST SAY. MY FAVOURITE IS ABOUT THE EVENING AFTER THE SHOW
WHEN IT RAINED SALAMANDERS. </i><br />
Jeany: Ha! --What's a great book that you've read recently?<br />
<i>DOUG: PERSUASION BY JANE AUSTEN</i><br />
Jeany: Lovely. Tell
us about one of the things you are excited to be working on now.<br />
<i>DOUG:
I'VE BEEN INVITED TO DIRECT A REVIVAL OF "OUTSIDE MULLINGAR", BY JOHN
PATRICK SHANLEY, IN BADDECK, NOVA SCOTIA, IN JUNE. I DIRECTED IT WITH
THE SAME CAST IN KITCHENER, ONTARIO,
LAST SPRING. IT'S AN AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT'S LOVE SONG TO IRISH
DRAMATURGY, FEATURING INTER-GENERATIONAL STRUGGLES WITHIN TWO FARM
FAMILIES.</i><br />
Jeany: Yes! We had a beautiful and powerful production of Outside Mullingar here as well.<br />
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More from the history of Wingfield:<br />
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On August 4, 2013, Walt Wingfield passed another milestone in his remarkable career. That day's matinee performance of <span class="f41">Letter From Wingfield Farm</span>
at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, was Rod Beattie's
4,500th performance of a Wingfield play in a little under thirty years.</div>
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From the Orange Hall in Rosemont, Ontario (August, 1984) to Victoria (August, 2013) with opening nights in 1985 (<span class="f41">Letter From Wingfield Farm</span>) in 1987 (<span class="f41">Wingfield's Progress</span>) in 1990 (<span class="f41">Wingfield's Folly</span>) in 1997 (<span class="f41">Wingfield Unbound</span>) in 2001 (<span class="f41">Wingfield On Ice</span>) in 2005 (<span class="f41">Wingfield's Inferno</span>) and in 2009 (<span class="f41">Wingfield Lost and Found</span>)
Walt and Rod have delighted capacity audiences across Canada in most
regional theatres, including Victoria's Belfry, the Vancouver Playhouse,
Edmonton's Citadel, Theatre Calgary, the Globe in Regina, the Manitoba
Theatre Centre in Winnipeg, the Grand Theatre in London, the Stratford
Festival, Theatre Orangeville, Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, the Royal
Alexandra Theatre and Canadian Stage Company in Toronto, Theatre New
Brunswick and the Neptune in Halifax, as well as hundreds of smaller
venues.</div>
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They've also taken part in seasons at Cincinnati's
Playhouse in the Park and the Asolo Theater in Sarasota, Florida. The
first three Wingfield plays were broadcast on CBC's <span class="f41">Morningside</span>, a TV version of <span class="f41">Letter From Wingfield Farm</span>
(produced by Primedia Productions) won the 1991 Gemini Award for best
performing arts program, and in November, 1998, a series of thirty
half-hour TV episodes, entitled <span class="f41">Wingfield</span>,
produced by Norflicks Productions, made its CBC debut. The series has
aired more recently on Bravo! Canada and WNED TV, the PBS station in
Buffalo NY.</div>
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Rod Beattie has won three best actor awards for his
stage performances in the Wingfield plays: The "Sterling" in 1988
(Edmonton, Alberta) the "Dora" in 1992 (Toronto) and the "Critics Award"
in 1995 (Sarasota).</div>
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Jeany Meltebeke Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487554044023340046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-47945519799469845872020-01-31T17:49:00.000-07:002020-01-31T17:49:16.999-07:00From the Heart of Morris...January 2020
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"Stories
where individuals look into the gaping maw of the impossible and then decide to
follow a voice in their spirit that says 'Try anyway, you can do this,' ...these courageous
thoughts turned into actions help us believe that there is always a new day or
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jeany: </span><i>Morris, what
are you working on currently? Describe the contents residing on your desk
at this very moment.</i></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexLKmXZTlAF305CWPdXIu2R5Rrie6LOtmqVtJjk0ENHjxPDZES9BoEuVkmRl-Z8egKy4MimycWk-r2Dr7p1kys2TFRcGRbN4y2AqjAGNdeD_ARQLPugODtLn9HPGL88rfkkH-2TrsW1E/s1600/paper+cat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="189" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexLKmXZTlAF305CWPdXIu2R5Rrie6LOtmqVtJjk0ENHjxPDZES9BoEuVkmRl-Z8egKy4MimycWk-r2Dr7p1kys2TFRcGRbN4y2AqjAGNdeD_ARQLPugODtLn9HPGL88rfkkH-2TrsW1E/s200/paper+cat.jpg" width="200" /></a>M<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">orris: My desk
is full of scripts. My email is fill of script suggestions. My computer is full
of costing records from past productions and potential casting breakdowns as I
work on a season for 2021. Then there’s a model of the set for Chariots of Fire.
There’s a props costing list waiting for me to review it. And, my Glorious
script is waiting on the top of the pile like some paper cat waiting to pounce
any moment, reminding me that we’re starting rehearsals in March! So, I feel
like I’m living in the past, present and future, like those spirits in A
Christmas Carol. Sometimes it’s terrifying. But I know that I’ll wake up one
morning to the same exhilaration Scrooge felt after all of those visitations!
Life is good!</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jeany: </span><i>So, was the True Stories theme something you set out to find, or was it something
that occurred to you once you started landing on plays you wanted to
produce? How did the season come together? Which pieces came first?</i><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well,
the season title True Stories was quite simply serendipitous. It just so
happened that all of the plays were based on real experiences. I’ve been
itching to put <i>Glorious!</i> on our stage for years now, because <b>I love the
fact that a real person in a real time, dared to be as brave and courageous as
Florence Foster Jenkins</b>. So, I guess <i>Glorious!</i> is the play that has
waited the longest to get to our stage. So, let’s call it the first. And the
other shows? Well the moment I knew there was an adaptation of <i>Chariots of
Fire</i>, we simply had to do it. And I’ve waited for several years for the
rights to <i>All Is Calm - </i>all those male voices singing a cappella Christmas carols on
a pitted battlefield. And, my goodness Laureen Gunderson’s <i>Silent Sky</i>
is such an exquisite story for our time - a time where <b>we must celebrate the
stories of women who have achieved and inspired</b> long before the culture was
aware of the fact that needed to be the norm, not the exception! And, lest we
forget - <i>Every Brilliant Thing</i>, which I experienced when Fire Exit
Theatre in Calgary presented Burnt Thicket Theatre’s production. <b>It was the most
disarming audience participation play that I have ever experienced. I should
know. I had to participate!</b> What a wonderful ride!</span><br />
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<i>Jeany: It seems like all the main characters have to overcome seeming insurmountable
odds, yet they press on, even when others or circumstances say no.
Their love of life and their curiosity keep drawing them forward to expand into
their full potential. They have such hope or faith. Can you speak to
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Morris: <b>Who
are we if we haven’t got hope?</b> We shrink and whither and cloister ourselves
away. We shutter ourselves for protection. We stop engaging in community. So, stories
where individuals look into the gaping maw of the impossible and then decide to
follow a voice in their spirit that says “Try anyway,” You can do this,”
"We can do this,” “But I’ve always wanted to do this,” or “we’re wrong to
be doing this, so let’s climb out of our trenches and celebrate Christmas with
those who have proven themselves to be our enemies” - all of those courageous
thoughts turned into actions help us believe that there is always a new day or
another chance to change the world through our courage. </span><br />
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<i>Jeany:<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">W</span></span>here do you see evidence of that kind of hope or drive in your life today?</i><br />
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Morris: Well,
<b>every season we put onto the stage is an act of hope</b>. Every designer that
creates some kind of visual possibility that frames a play is stepping out in
hope. Every actor who steps onto the stage is stepping out in faith and hope.
And I think <b>every audience member who commits to <span style="color: black;">the</span>
possibility that a play will deliver an experience that they won’t forget
lives in hope</b>. We want to do our part in affirming that hope.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chariots of Fire set design: Morris Ertman</td></tr>
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<i>Jeany: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>What
tickles you about this season? Is there something we’ve never done
before?</i><br />
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we’ve never put Olympic races on our stage before. Harold
Abrahams and Eric Liddle were physical manifestations
of the human heart pushing its conviction out into the world in sweat, breath
and worn running shoes! <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><i><br /></i>
<i>Jeany: If
you could be any of the characters in this next season for one day, which one
would you choose and why?</i><br />
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Morris: Eric
Liddle. It’s not so much the running. It’s the knowing he had that his running
was what God had created him to do, and <b>he knew the Creator of the Universe was
delighted in seeing him fly!</b><br />
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<i>Jeany: What’s
the best film you’ve seen recently?</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1917</td></tr>
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Jo
and I just went to see <i><b>1917</b></i>. Beautiful film - so elegantly made. <b>The
visual storytelling is so articulate</b>. It is a wonderful companion in my mind,
to <i>Dunkirk</i>, which is one of my all-time favourite films along with <i>The
Tree of Life</i> - directed by Terrence Malick. And I have to find where I can see Malick’s latest film <i>A Hidden Life</i> - the story
of Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War
II.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tree of Life</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dunkirk</td></tr>
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<i>Thanks so much Morris!</i>Jeany Meltebeke Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487554044023340046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-64232835647498909742019-11-16T21:56:00.002-07:002019-11-16T21:56:49.661-07:00Learning from the Audience by Aaron Krogman<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aaron with Rebbekah Ogden-Braun as Ralphie</td></tr>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two weeks ago was the opening of <i>A Christmas Story</i>, the final show on Rosebud Theatre’s Opera House stage for the 2019 season. It always seems a bit early to start thinking of Christmas on November 1st, no matter how many times I’ve done it, but that doesn’t stop audiences from heading our way, using their visit as a traditional kickstart to their holiday mindset. <i>A Christmas Story</i> marks my eighth Christmas show with Rosebud Theatre, but my last time was in 2012, and it’s been long enough that I wasn’t quite ready for the familiarity that washed over me as our first three audiences joined us this last Friday and Saturday.<span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This fall, I started with great excitement as a new faculty member with RSA. With all the business of teaching around rehearsals and the show, and with 2 daughters under 3 living in a house in mid-renovation, I was hoping to get through rehearsal and opening somewhat intact. I wasn’t anticipating the amount of memorizing this play required of me, but I didn’t realize until week two of four that I was in for it, and I put in some long days with the script. Fast forward to opening week; the lines were mostly sticking (although there still seems to be one or two that mutate suddenly each performance—I don’t know where the next leak in the dam will appear), and we were needing—<i>needing</i> an audience. And they showed up!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Play after play, I’ve learned so much about the story I’ve been trying to tell from the audience. The director tries to help the actor with objectivity, the playwright tries to set up the actor with words and intention, the designers try to give context for the actor and their action, but the audience is the most important part. The most obvious thing that happens is laughter, but it’s so much more than just laughter, it’s attention. Young and old, tired and wired, anxious and relaxed, from so many different contexts and backgrounds, the members of the audience all pay attention in their own way. There is a palpable sense of what it is that they experience as they watch us on stage, and this is so helpful, I daresay one of the biggest contributing factors in my ongoing education as an actor.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I had no idea what acting was when I started as a student, but I was allowed to spend time alongside others actors who were more experienced in the shared life between audiences and storytellers. I have found audiences to be generous educators, and they continue to be. As we perform <i>A Christmas </i>Story, I often watch from the wings as student actors try things on stage and discover show by show what works through the feedback audiences give to them, and it is clear that the audience desires their success. The students take these affirmations as nudges in the direction of bold, clear, direct and generous storytelling. I believe the Rosebud Theatre audience is unique because they are somehow in on the training we offer here.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After opening <i>A Christmas Story</i> this November, I was overwhelmed with gratitude to our audience with a new clarity for the education they offer me and all those who’ve studied and worked at Rosebud Theatre. It is truly a collaboration: when people come to see theatre here, it’s for much more than a show to watch or a bit of entertainment to consume; whether they know it or not, they participate powerfully in the work of training young storytellers. I’ve found nothing like it.<span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Aaron has done several shows for Rosebud Theatre as well as played Jesus for the Canadian Badlands Passion Play. We're thrilled to have him back in Rosebud this year serving both on the stage and in the classroom.</i></span></span></div>
<br />Jeany Meltebeke Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487554044023340046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-10232982446457958112019-10-14T19:13:00.003-06:002019-10-14T19:31:24.172-06:00Announcing our 2020 Season!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Announcing our upcoming season of True Stories! From the ridiculously uplifting to the scientifically soul searching - the 2020 Season covers ground from battlefields to sports arenas to the infinite depths of outer space. We've got magic up our sleeves you won't want to miss.<br /><br />For tickets and more information, visit <a href="http://rosebudtheatre.com/">rosebudtheatre.com</a>Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-31414642349929930982018-11-01T19:11:00.000-06:002019-10-14T19:23:58.136-06:00Our 2019 Season! Live Life!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-82959655690599565822017-11-01T16:30:00.000-06:002019-10-14T19:23:10.856-06:00Announcing our 35th Anniversary Season<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LeNcYGHdp6s/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LeNcYGHdp6s?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe><br />
Introducing our 35th Anniversary Season with a party of plays that will tickle your funny-bone,
cause you to sing at the top of your lungs, celebrate your great big
life, and intrigue, inspire and bless you!<br />
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For tickets and more information visit <a href="http://rosebudtheatre.com/" target="_blank">rosebudtheatre.com</a> Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-43269005427035721252017-10-17T11:41:00.000-06:002017-10-17T12:24:49.834-06:00Guest Artist “Snapshot” - Jordan Cutbill<style>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Jordan
Cutbill last appeared on Rosebud's mainstage in ‘Miracle on 34<sup>th</sup> Street’,
but audiences may also remember him from ‘Last Train to Nibroc’ and ‘It’s a
Wonderful Life’. A 2004 graduate of Rosebud School of the Arts, he’s been
teaching videography and sharing his passion of filmmaking for the last four
years as an instructor with RSA and more recently Prairie College. He is the
co-founder of Smoke Signal Media, a production power house based in Rosebud,
and the co-owner of Rosebud Valley Honey.</span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Jordan Cutbill and David Snider in Rosebud Theatre's <i>The Christians</i>. Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What made you come to Rosebud, and what have you been
up to since graduating?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I first came in response to three separate
individuals approaching me on three separate locations and telling me about the
school. I took a brief hiatus from acting and Rosebud after graduation and went
fishing and adventuring on the West Coast of British Columbia where I’m originally
from. I spent [another] eight months cruising the Caribbean on a 30 foot
sailboat with a buddy of mine, was a waiter at Fine Dining restaurants in
Tofino and Victoria, and three years fishing guiding in the Queen Charlotte
Islands (now called Haida Gwai).</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">You’ve got a bit of a reputation as an Outdoorsy
Renaissance Man. What’s next on your list?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At present I’m learning more about
permaculture gardening with the hopes of starting up a market garden here in
Rosebud. I’m learning more about canning and food preservation since our garden
produced an excess of tomatoes this year.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What do you do in your spare time?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When I have free time I like to garden, hunt, keep bees, fish, cook, and spend quality time with my loving wife and our
friends in this beautiful hamlet of Rosebud.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s your favorite cold weather drink to warm up?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I have to admit I’m a coffee addict. It’s
really the best thing that God ever created.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Jordan Cutbill as Pastor Joshua with Cassandra Garbutt, Caitlyn O'Connor, and Stephanie Lanting in Lucas Hnath's <i>The Christians</i>. Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">In ‘The Christians’, you’re playing Associate Pastor
Joshua, a man of convictions who’s integral to the church. He’s also the
character who unflinchingly addresses the central conflict, almost immediately.
Do you identify with him? </span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I identify with addressing the central
conflict immediately. I didn’t find that part of the character difficult to
connect with. He lives in an entirely different world then I choose to be a
part of, but I think at the heart people are people and everyone believes what
they believe for a reason. So finding Josh wasn’t that difficult.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What surprised you about the play? </span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The response has been the most surprising
thing for me. I initially thought it would be much more controversial and that
the audience would really struggle with the content. I have been so encouraged
by our audience giving us the benefit of the doubt and trusting us to go on an
uncomfortable ride together. The talk-backs after the show have been the most
rewarding talk-backs I’ve ever been a part of. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Has anything in particular challenged you about the
process? </span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">You definitely feel naked when you’re
emotionally vulnerable on stage in front of a group of people, and that takes
some getting used to - and some trust that doesn’t come easy to me.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Why do you think so many people have baggage /
hang-ups about church? </span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I think people have baggage or hangups
about the church and Christianity because it has led such a controversial role
throughout history. I think anything that matters polarizes people... so of course
religion/politics/money will fit right into that.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">If this play weren’t called ‘The Christians’, what
would you call it?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I would call it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The People</i>. I don’t think it only applies to Christians, I think it speaks a universal truth that everyone can connect with.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s inspiring you lately?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Generally for inspiration I listen to a lot
of music. At present I’m enjoying the work of Bears Den, Max Richter, Ryan
Adams, and a host of others.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Jordan and co-owner of Rosebud Valley Honey, Kelsey Krogman. Photo courtesy <a href="https://rosebudvalleyhoney.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Rosebud Valley Honey</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">How did you get into Rosebud Valley Honey?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’ve always been fascinated by beekeeping and curious as to the natural fear that most people have of these
wonderful little creatures. Their level of sophistication and community is showcased
through the hive mentality: greater care for the whole (rather than the
individual) is an astounding example of community and care. <a href="https://rosebudvalleyhoney.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Rosebud Valley Honey</a> was started four years ago with Kelsey Krogman and myself. We practice
chemical-free beekeeping in an effort to care for the bees first and collect
honey as humanely and decently as possible. We believe that caring for the bees
is primary and if they produce an excess of honey beyond what they need, then
we get to offer that to the people in Rosebud and beyond.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lastly,
what’s a great piece of advice that’s connected with you over the years?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Don’t let your life be ruled by fear. I
strive to live my life with intentionality and drive and recognize that
everything is a choice. I choose not to let fear be the thing that speaks the
loudest in my life.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">There’s
just two more weeks to catch Jordan Cutbill navigating the tumultuous waters of
church politics and relationships in Lucas Hnath’s powerhouse-packed ‘The
Christians’. Playing now, through October 28, for tickets and showtimes, visit
<a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/">www.rosebudtheatre.com</a></span></i></div>
Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-74781040660735372102017-09-26T14:05:00.003-06:002017-09-26T16:12:52.778-06:00Quick Take - Morris talks The Christians<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">'The
Christians', by Lucas Hnath, playing on our MainStage continues to garner international acclaim for its succinct ability to present complex and conflicting takes
on a situation, all without sermonizing. Which is ironic, given it’s set in an
American Mega-Church. The play moves quickly through the aftermath of a Pastor
radically changing theological direction on a hot button issue. In the spirit
of the script, we asked director Morris Ertman for some “succinct” thoughts on
Rosebud’s production</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">You can read this interview in a minute! Take a minute to check out why <i>The Christians</i> will make the most of your time.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Describe the play in one word:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">In one sentence, what challenges you about the script?
<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Describing the challenge(s) in one
sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s a Bible verse that challenges you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I am the way, the truth and the life. No
one comes to the Father but by me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">If this play weren’t called ‘The Christians’, what
would you call it?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’m no good at titles, but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Cost of Conviction</i>. [Which] sounds
more like a sermon title. There’s a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song with the
following lyrics, written about the Kent State shootings in the 60s. It seems
somehow appropriate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Find
the cost of freedom<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Buried
in the ground<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Mother
Earth will swallow you<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lay
your body down.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There’s something about the spiritual
journey of the people in this play that is contained in that lyric, if you
replace “freedom” with “belief.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>If
someone doesn’t go to church, why would/should they go to a show set in a
church?</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Because they can look at church with
outside eyes, and not have to participate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s a Bible verse you try and live your life by?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to
walk humbly with your God.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s your favorite zinger line from the script that
isn’t a plot spoiler?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“It says that. It actually says that!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Which role in the script do you identify with most?</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"> <br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(Pastor / Elder / Associate / Congregant
/ Spouse)</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Pastor Paul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s a question that should be in everyone’s
post-show discussion? (Either over drinks or on the ride home?)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What does personal conviction cost us, and
is it worth it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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store with 'The Christians', playing now through October 28<sup>th</sup>. For
more about the show, check out <a href="http://rosebudcoloredglasses.blogspot.ca/2017/09/the-christians-not-what-you-might-be.html" target="_blank">'The Christians: not what you might be thinking' </a>. For tickets and showtimes, visit
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"<i>The Christians </i>is a play about the pastor of a very very big church. And what happens when he... reveals to the congregation something that he has found out... that the Bible doesn't quite say something that we think it says. And then the reaction of the congregation - which is not exactly what you'd expect. And then what happens after <i>that</i> is also not exactly what you'd expect. And then what happens as a result of <i>that </i>is also not exactly what you'd expect... and the whole play just sort of tumbles forward." </blockquote>
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At a tight 80 minutes with not a word wasted, <i>The Christians</i> is an emotional and intellectual ride through politics, faith, and dissension in a contemporary charismatic mega-church. Though the plot hinges on a doctrinal deal-breaker, the church is simply the setting for a snowballing series of interactions stunning in their simplicity, complexity, and astounding ability to keep audiences guessing what happens next. </div>
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Raised near Disneyworld, with no neighbors but a gun range across the
street, playwright Lucas Hnath says his 'surreal' childhood prepared him
for the stage. "Disneyworld was my first theatrical experience. It sort
of informs everything that I write. I like it when plays feel like a
ride." But through the twists and turns Hnath never quite lets on where his sympathies lie, not even in interviews. Instead, he confounds with competing arguments. "As long as your brain is searching for the answer, you're awake. Once you have the answer, you go to sleep," he argues.<br />
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<i>The Christians </i>premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2014 and
its 2015 New York production at Playwrights Horizons launched the play
(and playwright) into the national spotlight. Critically appraised and widely produced across the United States, it has been embraced by secular and faith-based organizations alike. With a polarizing title, the play itself is anything but. <i>The Christians</i> concerns not only matters of faith, but questions of leadership, integrity, and unspoken rules for reconciliation. What happens when a man speaks what he believes, and shakes up not only his congregation, but the intricate framework of relationships his organization was built upon? Are beliefs a thing we hold on to in spite of the havoc they wreak, or is there room to hold other perspectives without losing our own?<br />
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<i>'The Christians' runs Sept 22 - Oct 28, and if you have any doubts about whether the show is right for you,<b> it is</b>. This play is a must-see and elegant portrayal of a fractured body of believers who keep searching for resolution. For tickets and more information, visit <a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/" target="_blank">www.rosebudtheatre.com </a></i><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>The actors in The Spitfire Grill have had a grand time playing together this summer, so we asked a few insider questions (and edited out the spoilers). Read how their responses stack up, and see who's possibly gotten a little too close for comfort...</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p>Who's Playing Who? (A short guide to names mentioned below)</o:p></span></div>
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<li>Alixandra Cowman - <i>Percy</i></li>
<li>Elinor Holt - <i>Hannah</i></li>
<li>Cassia Schmidt - <i>Shelby</i></li>
<li>Nathan Schmidt - <i>Eli</i></li>
<li>Marie Russell - <i>Effy</i></li>
<li>Travis Friesen - <i>Sheriff Joe</i> </li>
<li>Paul Muir - <i>Caleb</i></li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Who’s the Spitfire in The Spitfire Grill?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ALIX:</span></b> Elinor Holt, OF COURSE!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>NATE:</b> </span>I’d have to say Hannah is the Spitfire, she named it after all.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">CASSIA:</span></b> Hannah – for sure!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">TRAVIS:</span></b> Hannah<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ELINOR:</span></b> Shelby! And in the band, Julie!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">MARIE:</span></b> The fierce spirit of compassion that is
brave enough to start and continue the journey of forgiveness and
acceptance.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">PAUL:</span></b> Percy! No question, it’s Percy! She’s
the catalyst for the whole story!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />What’s the secret in the sauce?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ALIX:</span></b> It ain’t called SPITfire for no good
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ELINOR:</span></b> Wild Turkey</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">TRAVIS:</span></b> Ketchup/mayo/lemon juice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">CASSIA:</span></b> Rosebud wate<strike>r</strike></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">MARIE:</span></b> Understanding how little we have to
lose when we leap and make the choice to love...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">NATE:</span></b> You know, I think it’s pickles and
chipotle peppers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">PAUL:</span></b> You add a dash of love and a pinch of
forgiveness, and YUM!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s the worst thing on the menu?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ALIX:</span></b> Anything that Percy has made. Don’t let
her in the kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ELINOR:</span></b> The coffee. But it’s the only grill in
town, so put up and shut up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">TRAVIS:</span></b> Jellied Hotdog Salad</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">CASSIA:</span></b> The corn beef hash. Even when Hannah
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">MARIE:</span></b> Percy’s sunny-side-up eggs. They have
instantly grown a velvety mould on their surface, thanks to the genius of props
people! Ewwww.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">PAUL:</span></b> Caleb!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">NATE:</span></b> The spelling</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />What song got cut from the play?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ALIX:</span></b> The one that ends with a kissing scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">CASSIA:</span></b> All of Eli’s solos.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">TRAVIS:</span></b> “I can’t quit you” – Caleb sings to Joe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">MARIE:</span></b> Effy’s Revenge – a little dream
sequence piece about catching everyone in a fraud ring and being awarded The
Spitfire Grill as an annex to the post office (secretly a CIA outpost).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">NATE:</span></b> Shelby had a bluesy song about how she
wishes she was single again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">PAUL:</span></b> A song got cut from the play? Crap! Why
didn’t anyone tell me? I’m still doing them all! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />What crime would you commit if you could get away with
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">CASSIA:</span></b> It’s not a hard core crime – but there are a lot of places I would trespass.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ELINOR:</span></b> Hm. Tough one. Can one ever get away
from something? With something?... Maybe… so, I would like to get away with
Travis’s old truck… or Cassia’s vocal chords so that I could be an amazing
belting soprano with cool wheels! Grand Theft/Throat Auto!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">TRAVIS:</span></b> Jay-walking</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ALIX:</span></b> I would love to rob a casino, <i>Ocean’s Eleven</i> style. I want to be cool like Brad Pitt and George Clooney!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>MARIE:</b> </span>What’s the legal term for
opening other people’s mail?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">NATE:</span></b> Stowaway – jumping on a boxcar and go
where it goes for as long as it goes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">PAUL:</span></b> Oh Heavens, I think I’ve committed
enough crimes in my life already. I’m ready to retire from my life of crime!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ALIX:</span></b> Definitely Joe and Effy. Have you SEEN their relationship on stage? Seems fishy to me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">CASSIA:</span></b> Shelby. Ha! Sneaky! Still not telling. But there's a reason her dress is so baggy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">NATE:</span></b> The cellist, Julie. She'd rather be dancing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">PAUL:</span></b> Ummm, who doesn’t have a secret they
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see?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ALIX:</span></b> The choreography of ‘Diggin’ Stone’
that happens behind the flat. Elinor and I are the best back-up dancers to Paul
Muir’s rocking song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ELINOR:</span></b> The backstage choreography for ‘Diggin’
Stone'. It is a sight to behold, even if I do say so
myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">CASSIA:</span></b> Choreography for 'Diggin’ Stone'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">TRAVIS:</span></b> Behind the flat choreo for 'Diggin’
Stone'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">NATE:</span></b> I get to make eyes, across the stage, with my beautiful wife, during the woo-ing between Sheriff Joe and Percy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">MARIE:</span></b> One of my favorite moments happens at
the top of Act 1 before my first entrance. We’re like a team… coming out of the shoot – first Travis, then, a bar later, Paul, then
at my time, me. I love love love being a small player in a great story
alongside others. I’m not sure why that moment always heartens me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">PAUL:</span></b> Oh gosh. At some point we [gotta] make a video
of all the action that happens with the musicians. The 4-person guitar playing
dance, Kait going back and forth between piano and accordion, it’s really
active!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />What’s the password to get into the after-hours
Spitfire?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ALIX:</span></b> <i>“I brought applejack.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ELINOR:</span></b> <i>Scrabble</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">MARIE:</span></b> The secret password passes by word
of mouth and also continuously changes. Effy knows that the tactic is
called “permanent transitionalism” and was a favorite method used by Sadam
Hussein.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nathan Schmidt and Alixandra Cowman share a secret... or two... photo by Morris Ertman</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Friendship and Forgiveness in <i>The Spitfire Grill</i>. Cassia Schmidt, Elinor Holt, & Alixandra Cowman. Photo by Morris Ertman</span></td></tr>
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<i>There's just two more weeks to catch the antics and genuine affection amidst the cast and characters of The Spitfire Grill. Playing until September 2, visit <a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/">www.rosebudtheatre.com</a> for tickets and more information.</i><br />
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Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-21236943658378259712017-07-31T08:29:00.001-06:002017-09-15T14:10:03.583-06:00Guest Artist "Snapshot" - Travis Friesen<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Travis
Friesen is a resident Rosebuddy finally returning to the mainstage after
graduating from Rosebud School of the Arts in 2008. Select Rosebud Theatre
credits include ‘Tent Meeting’, ‘On Golden Pond’, ‘Man of La Mancha’,
‘Christmas in Wales’, and ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'. Recent
projects for film include: CBC’s 'Heartland', 'Painkillers', 'Hell on Wheels', 'The Valley
Below', 'Breakdown Lane', and 'Carl’s Way'. Travis is a member of The Wheatland Band
and the proprietor of Kith & Kin Artisan Wares who has made his home in Rosebud for the past 13 years.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Travis Friesen and Alixandra Cowman in Rosebud Theatre's <i>The Spitfire Grill</i>. Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US">Where are you from originally?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Gimli, Manitoba, home of the Gimli Glider
(1983) and the annual Icelandic festival Islendingadagurinn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What drew you to Rosebud?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I was living in Montreal taking evening
acting classes, and I asked my coach, “When should I say ‘no’ to a role?” He
told me that I should accept everything or I’m not hire-able, and that didn’t
sit well with me. I decided to pursue a school where I could be surrounded by
the craft every day and [with people] who wrestled with the questions of what
it means to be a performer with a Christian faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What have you been up to since graduating?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I graduated RSA in 2008. After graduating,
I spent a stretch of time in both Toronto and Vancouver investigating the film
scene. Most of my days since, have been spent in Rosebud building a home and
business, and pursuing film work in Calgary and Edmonton. I’ve also released
two solo albums, and an EP with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Wheatland Band. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.rosebudtheatre.com/on-stage/rosebud-presents/the-wheatland-band" target="_blank">(click here for upcoming Rosebud Theatre performance!)</a></span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Elinor Holt, Travis Friesen, Cassia Schmidt, & Alixandra Cowman get more than they bargained for in <i>The Spitfire Grill</i>. Photo by Morris Ertman.</span> </td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s your favorite part about performing, and do you
have a preference for music, film, or theatre? <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I appreciate them all for different
reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With music, I enjoy the navigation of a
performance – building a set list that takes the audience on a journey, and
interacting with them. And I love to sing. I’ts the thing that brings the most
joy to my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I enjoy the high stakes that comes with
doing film. You show up as a day player on set and have to prove yourself every
time. And the honesty that film demands of you – the camera is right in your
face and (thanks to reality TV) the average viewer sitting at home is trained
to know exactly what’s going on behind the actor’s eyes. There’s no getting
away with disconnected acting. I also love the camaraderie of everyone working
together, each in their own unique role, towards a common goal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With the theatre, I enjoy the exploration
that is found in the rehearsal hall. In Rosebud we get 4 weeks of rehearsal
time and once the show is open, performing for a live audience is such a
thrill. There’s an instant gratification that happens as the energy from the
audience hits you like a wave. As well, in theatre, you get to do the whole
story – top to bottom – and explore the entire journey of your character
everyday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sheriff Joe meets Percy (Travis Friesen & Alixandra Cowman) in <i>The Spitfire Grill</i>. Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">In ‘The Spitfire Grill’, you’re playing Sheriff Joe
Suttor: a small town guy with aspirations for bigger things than Gilead seems
to offer. Do you identify with him, or were there unexpected
challenges about getting into the headspace of the local lawman?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I think we all have to deal with life not
working out the way we hoped it would at some point on our journey. We all have
different ways of facing disappointment. I believe the local lawman thought
he’d find his piece of happiness in Gilead, with a wife and a home, but as life
would have it, try as he might, that hasn’t worked out. Hopping the train out
of town is a mere smokescreen for him dealing with his disappointment. Joe has
a heart for the people of Gilead and is an advocate for the town. These are all
facets that I identify well with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">You also recently played lawman Constable Jones for
two episodes of the CBC show ‘Heartland’. What’s the difference for you between
film and musical theatre?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Both mediums require hard work and
preparation. If something doesn’t go right in film, you can do it again. If you
start singing the wrong line in musical theatre, there is no going back, you
just have to ride the wave of horror. I’ve learned this the hard way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Travis Friesen (centre) in Rosebud Theatre's<i> Christmas in Wales</i> (2009). Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">In addition to creative abilities, you’re a Renovation King! What draws you to projects (you're bringing a
windmill to town and you built a store)? Is there something
that appeals to you about working with your hands?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When I first purchased the property of Kith
& Kin (the old Rosebud Fire Hall), I wanted to build an extravagant post
and beam building with lots of glass and a living roof. But the reality of my
budget made this impossible. Operating on a budget draws out the creativity in
people. The imagination muscle is the same on we use in theatre. You’re
confined to the world within the stage and have limitations there as well, but
that’s often where the magic happens. Renos are another avenue for creative
expression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What are you listening to these days? Any
recommendations?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">I
Will Always Love You</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> – Whitney Houston, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Field Behind the Plow</i> – Stan Rogers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s Rosebud’s best kept secret?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Travis Friesen. I’m still single. Or, Kith
& Kin. Or perhaps… the best is yet to come… in the form of a windmill…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Travis Friesen & Jesse Lynn Anderson in <i>The Triumph of Love</i>. Photo courtesy Rosebud School of the Arts.</span></td></tr>
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with you lately?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Elinor Holt said at a talkback the other
day that there is no expiration date on actors. Everything we do in our lives
contributes to our craft of storytelling. That takes a certain amount of
pressure off me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">On the fictional menu of ‘The Spitfire Grill’, what
makes up the “Travis Friesen Special”?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I do love duck… maybe include an 8” x 8”
chunk of lasagna with peppercorns on top that were hand milled by a hipster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Resident heartthrob Travis Friesen will warm up your summer with his deep and rich performance in 'The Spitfire Grill'. Smooth your relationship with the Sheriff and get your ticket before September 2<span style="font-size: x-small;">. </span>And catch The Wheatland Band, one night only, Friday, September 8. For tickets and
information visit <a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/">www.rosebudtheatre.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-85515473705446195502017-07-18T21:14:00.004-06:002017-09-15T14:10:20.916-06:00Guest Artist "Snapshot" - Elinor Holt<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">'The
Spitfire Grill' marks Elinor Holt’s debut on the Rosebud Theatre stage, but she's a certified star of the Calgary Theatre scene. A founding member
of Evergreen Theatre and an award winning actress, select credits include: ‘Drinking
Habits’ (Stage West), ‘Pig Girl’ (Theatre Network), ‘The Soul Collector’
(Catalyst), ‘The Ecstatics’ (Northern Light), ‘Sweeney Todd’ (Vertigo), ‘Slipper’
(ATP), ‘Mom’s the Word’ (Theatre Calgary), ‘Boy Gets Girl’ (Theatre Junction), ‘Lest
We Forget’ (Lunchbox), ‘Shakespeare’s Will’ (Sage), ‘Urine Town’ (Ground Zero),
‘Helen’s Necklace’ (Urban Curvz), ‘The Piper’ (Downstage), ‘Bingo Ladies’
(Hudson Village), ‘Becky’s New Car’ (Theatre NW), ‘Our Town’ (Caravan Theatre),
‘Romeo & Juliet’ (The Globe). Up next for Elinor: ‘To the Light’ (ATP) and ‘The
Humans’ (Theatre Calgary). Elinor and her husband, Spider, form the duo,
SPIDERELLI. They live in Calgary with their three children and two pups.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Cassia Schmidt, Elinor Holt, and Alixandra Cowman in Rosebud Theatre's <i>The Spitfire Grill. </i>Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Where do you call home?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I call Calgary home now but I actually grew up on a farm near New
Norway, Alberta and went to a farm school called Rosebrier School. I was in
grades one, two and three with Garfield Sproule, just a year or two behind
Royale Sproule, of Rosebud fame. Small world, theatre and farming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">What’s inspiring you right now?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Virginia Woolf's novella, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To
the Lighthouse</i>. This fall I will be performing in a French adaptation
entitled, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To the Light</i> at Alberta
Theatre Projects. It was inspired by Virginia Woolf's writing and has been
translated by John Murrell, who wrote the play <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waiting for the Parade</i>, among others. John's writing is ever an
inspiration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">What’s your go-to summer treat?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Ice cream and (thanks to Nathan & Cassia Schmidt) Meadjito for a
beverage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">In ‘The Spitfire Grill’, you’re playing Hannah Ferguson, arguably
the most ‘spitfire’ woman at the Grill. But she also has complex wounds and an
abundantly generous spirit. Do you identify with her, or were there unexpected
challenges in the role?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I identify with Hannah a great deal. Hard not to for those of us who
have reached a certain age, methinks. The greatest challenge in approaching the
role for me was her age. She is 70. I am…not quite there yet…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">What makes great musical theatre? Do you have a favorite style, or
show?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Nothing beats a good story which is what makes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Spitfire Grill</i> my kind of musical. It is a story and actor
driven piece. Years ago I had the chance to play Mercy in Morwyn Brebner’s
musical, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Little Mercy’s First Murder</i>
for Ground Zero Theatre in Calgary. It was the same kind of show, an actor’s
musical, a great story with great heart. Usually my favorite show is the one I
am currently doing and that certainly applies to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Spitfire Grill</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Elinor Holt warms up her pre-show pipes on the set of <i>The Spitfire Grill</i>. Photo by Nathan Schmidt.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Any roles on your bucket list?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">What is on my bucket list is what I am doing at the moment and in
the moment. So, right now that is Hannah in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Spitfire Grill</i>. If I had a bucket list role and got too old to play it or
lost the part to someone else… well, let’s just say, that way madness lies.
Concentrate on the show you are doing, head down, keep working, and as Doris
Day sang, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What will be, will be…</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">You’re also an accomplished voice actor. Do you approach “voice”
work the same as “stage” work, or do you use different creative tools?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">In voice work I do as I am told and trust the experts because I am
not one!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">What can you tell us about SPIDERELLI? <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica";"><i>(listen to the music <a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/spiderelli">here</a>!)</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We have an album of original songs called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">12 Farm Fresh Hits</i>. We get some air play on CKUA and University
Radio. My husband wrote the music and I wrote the lyrics. I am always carrying
some CDs with me. Perhaps I should approach some of the Rosebud shops to see
if they could put some out? We would donate half the proceeds to the theatre!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><i>(Editor's note: to get your hands on a CD, contact elliholt@hotmail.com or spiderbishop@hotmail.com)</i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">What’s a great piece of acting advice that’s guided you over the
years?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Go there, don’t show there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with a little neighbourhood friend, loudly exclaim, “No, Daddies cook! Mommies
order pizza!” So, my special would be a George’s Special from Inglewood Pizza
in Calgary. I have them on speed dial. In real life, I cook less like Hannah
and more like Percy who arrives at <i>The Spitfire Grill.</i> You have to see the show
to know who taught Percy how to cook!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">'The Spitfire Grill' plays now through September 2. Don’t miss your chance to catch Elinor
Holt’s touching and firecracking performance as resident spitfire Hannah
Ferguson. For tickets and more information, <a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/">visit www.rosebudtheatre.com</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-24208106229625014082017-07-12T09:54:00.000-06:002017-09-15T14:11:06.721-06:00Director's Chair - Ron Reed on 'An Almost Holy Picture'<div class="">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><i>Currently playing on our BMO Studio Stage is 'An Almost Holy Picture', by Heather MacDonald. The play follows the spiritual journey of Samuel Gentle: a gardener wrestling with faith and divine mystery as he navigates his calling of care-taking. We caught up with director Ron Reed for some of his thoughts on the production.</i></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ron Reed in Pacific Theatre's production of <i>Outside Mullingar</i>. Photo by Jalen Saip.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>What's the first thing that resonated with you in the story?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found Samuel’s experiences in New Mexico so vivid. They stick with me. I also loved “that wild child, Angel Martinez” who is a complete outsider, and the fact that he is such a gifted photographer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br class="" /><b><i>You’re Artistic Director of <a href="http://pacifictheatre.org/">Pacific Theatre </a>(Vancouver), a playwright, AND a professional actor. Is it difficult to let go of those roles when you direct? Do different tools come into play?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In one way, yes, very much. In another way they are very similar, especially on a one-man show. What’s different? When I’m an actor, almost my entire job is to lose myself in the story, imagining myself in the middle of all the things that are happening. As a director I am the outside pair of eyes that provides shape, tempo, imagery to make the story clear and potent for the audience - so that the actor is free to lose himself in the story. What’s similar, though, is that I am very much working to help the actor bring his very best work, so I am constantly imagining myself in the middle of his process so I can build his confidence, figure out how to overcome obsacles, etc - thinking very much as an actor.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In ‘An Almost Holy Picture', Samuel Gentle is a father who’s walked away from an official role in the church to become a kind of recluse in care of a Church’s grounds and a daughter with an extraordinary condition. As an artist and father of two daughters, do you identify with his path? </span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What we have in common is that the fact of being a father is probably the central thing in our lives. We also have in common an unshakeable preoccupation with God - though, while I’ve had all kinds of difficulties that have challenged my faith, I’ve never become alienated from God, or felt the need to walk away from the church or my own faith as a result. (Well, maybe for a week or two here or there, but that’s mostly just when we’re not on speaking terms - nothing permanent.)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">David Snider (Samuel Gentle) and Ron Reed (Director) at first read for <i>An Almost Holy Picture</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br class="" /><b><i>In a one-person show, is it difficult to establish a sense of conflict? How do you engage the audience in a deeply complex and internal struggle?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don’t think of the through-line or story of a play in terms of conflict, though I know that’s one way to approach it. I see it as a journey, a series of events, the consequences and choices that follow those events, and then the events that are caused by those choices - which then lead to other consequences and choices. And since Samuel talks with us so openly about that train of events and consequences, I find it just as interesting as I would to sit down and listen to anybody tell me their story. Especially someone as honest, observant and complex as Samuel.<br class="" /><br class="" /><b><i>Any surprises in the rehearsal process?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That the play had to be under two hours, including intermission. <br class="" /><br /><b><i>What’s currently inspiring you?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The baseball writing of W.P. Kinsella, especially his novel <i>Shoeless Joe </i>- such language! Spending time with my nine month old grand-daughter. The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast. Listening to music late at night: ska and early reggae, a jazz singer named Carolyn Credico, vintage rock and pop - The Flamingos, The Crows, The Chords, Del Vikings, Doris Troy, Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, The Tams. Endless listens to Donald Fagen’s<i> Nightfly</i> album. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ron Reed as the doctor himself in Pacific Theatre's production of <i>Freud's Last Session. </i>Photo by Damon Calderwood.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>This production of ‘An Almost Holy Picture' is also a part of Pacific Theatre’s upcoming season, which includes a new play, by you, about the friendship between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Can you give a sneak peek into your process?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ve set aside couple weeks this summer to dig in on revising the play, and I hope to do another draft some time this fall. In this last draft the very important third character of Charles Williams finally clicked into place, especially his scenes with a young woman named Lois Lang-Sims. Now I can really focus on the over-arching story of the rise and fall of the friendship, really making sure one thing leads to another. And to centre it in J.R.R. Tolkien - what things does he do, and why, and are there moments where he realizes things? I think his wife Edith will be really important in that. (for more on the production, click <a href="http://pacifictheatre.org/season/2017-2018-season/mainstage/tolkien">here</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Is there a directing project on your bucket list?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m not thinking much further than <i>Tolkien</i>, which has been on my mind since I started work on it in 2012, which we’re premiering next May. But okay, two others come to mind, Will Eno’s <i>Middletown </i>and a stage adaptation of the bizarre John Patrick Shanley movie <i>Joe Versus The Volcano.</i></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 12px;">What’s your favourite summer indulgence?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Spending long days and evenings in my back
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br class="" /><b><i>If you were going to create an almost holy picture, what would you put into the frame?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These days, it would be a very crowded picture.<br class="" /><br class="" /><b><i>What's next for you?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ll be playing Paul in <i>The Christians</i> at Pacific Theatre this September - the same role Dave Snider is playing here at Rosebud! Such a powerful play - and I’ve never worked with any of the rest of the cast before, which is a rare treat for me. Already working on the lines...</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Ron Reed is Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Pacific Theatre. He founded the company in 1984 after receiving an M.F.A. in Acting from California Institute of the Arts. His critically acclaimed performances in 'Shadowlands', 'A Man for All Seasons', 'Mourning Dove', 'God's Man in Texas', and 'Cotton Patch Gospel' garnered Jessie Richardson Award nominations. As a widely produced playwright, (with over fifty productions of his plays to date), he won the Chalmers Canadian Play Award for 'Book of the Dragon' and was nominated for both Dora Mavor Moore and Sterling Awards for 'Tent Meeting' (a collaboration with Morris Ertman). His other works include 'Refuge of Lies', 'A Bright Particular Star', and 'You Still Can't'. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>'An Almost Holy Picture' plays now until September 2. For tickets and information, <a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/">visit www.rosebudtheatre.com</a></b></i></span></div>
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Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-31376548627168113752017-06-28T14:24:00.000-06:002017-09-15T14:11:47.389-06:00Company "Snapshot" - Alixandra Cowman<div class="MsoNormal">
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Rosebud this summer! She received her FRSA with Rosebud School of the Arts in
2014 and has been seen on our stage in ‘Wildwood Fire’, ‘Chickens’, and ‘Cotton
Patch Gospel’. Other theatre credits include ‘Hana’s Suitcase’ (Storybook
Theatre), ‘Songs for a New World’ (Cappuccino), ‘Rocks’ (IGNITE!), and ‘The
Darling Family’ (Three Eyes). Alixandra is also a member of acclaimed folk trio
“The Dearhearts” with whom she has released an album and toured across North
America - <a href="http://www.thedearhearts.net/">www.thedearhearts.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Alixandra Cowman and Cassia Schmidt in Rosebud Theatre's <i>The Spitfire Grill.</i> Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Where do you call home?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My
current place of residence is Calgary. I've got a few places I like to call
home, and that includes Rosebud, Calgary, and Regina (which is where I grew
up).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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graduated?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I've
moved to Calgary, started a band called The Dearhearts, and done as much acting
as I can. I've been lucky enough with Calgary theatre companies like Storybook
Theatre, Birnton Theatricals, and Sage Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tell us a little about your band
and how it came to be?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
Dearhearts was born out of my fear of doing things on my own, really. ;) I had
received Paul Zacharias's recording scholarship during my time as a student at
RSA, but held off on recording anything for about two years. Lauren de Graaf,
Lauren Hamm, and I had made the decision to perform dinner music for the fall
show at Rosebud Theatre in 2014. We decided to use my scholarship to record a
CD that we could sell in conjunction with dinner music. And then...it just took
off! We've continued to book gigs and write songs, and 3 years later, we're
still going strong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Dearhearts: Lauren Hamm, Lauren DeGraaf, and Alix Cowman. Photo courtesy <a href="http://www.laurenhammphoto.com/">Lauren Hamm Photography.</a></span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US">How is singing in The Dearhearts
different from doing Musical Theatre? Do you use different skills to sing your
own music?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I
can't get away with being lazy with diction in Musical Theatre the way I can with
The Dearhearts...don't get me wrong, writing and singing music with The
Dearhearts is just as labour-intensive, but with Musical Theatre, the story is
the thing. It's really important that the story is told as clearly as can be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What’s your favourite indulgence?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Me and
one of my good friends have started having nights where we drink wine and watch
The Bachelorette. I look forward to it every week! I won't say who I watch it
with for fear of her being embarrassed that everyone knows she watches the Bachelorette,
but let's just say she's very DEAR to my HEART.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Which fictional character do you
identify with most and why?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I grew
up with Disney movies, and Belle was always my favourite. We share a lot in
common (we both are avid readers, both love to sing, and both have brown hair),
but her open spirit is a big inspiration for me. She looks through the surface
and sees the heart underneath. That's who I strive to be, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In ‘The Spitfire Grill’, you’re
playing Percy… a convict starting over in a new place looking for a second
chance at happiness. Was it easy to get into her skin, or were there challenges
to the role you weren’t expecting?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">There's
definitely some things about Percy that made it easy to connect with her. She's
a city girl that's never lived in a small town before...that was me when I
first moved to Rosebud! The difficulty came in her guardedness. As an actor, my
job is to be completely open and play the truth whatever I'm feeling in the
moment. But Percy is completely shut off to her emotions and to other people at
the top of this story. It's a bit of a puzzle to sort through sometimes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nathan Schmidt and Alixandra Cowman build trust in Rosebud Theatre's <i>The Spitfire Grill.</i> Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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to start over, where would you go?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I'd go
somewhere far and remote. Preferably somewhere warm. Hawaii perhaps!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What’s a great piece of acting
advice that’s stuck with you over the years?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I have
the pleasure of working with Calgary actor Elinor Holt in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spitfire,</i> and I distinctly remember being in a talkback of a show
she was in. All I remember is her saying to us that if we wanted to be actors,
we had to work hard. She teases me for this being the only thing I remember
from that day but hey, it's stuck! And she's right!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the fictional menu of The
Spitfire Grill, what makes up the "Alix Cowman" special?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Anything
with avocados: Avocado toast, salad with Avocados, plain old guacamole. I love
Avocados and I ain't ashamed about it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Lastly, what's Alix Cowman’s
motto?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I don't
know if I have a motto but I definitely use the flamenco dancer emoji
quite often. It's kind of my trademark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Bill
Hamm grew up in Southern Ontario and studied music at the University of
Winnipeg (B.A.), attended Canadian Mennonite University (B.R.S.), followed by the University of Illinois (M.A.) where he majored in
Choral Conducting. Bill has been Rosebud School of the Arts’ and Rosebud
Theatre’s Music Director since 1989. He conducts choirs, teaches voice and
speech classes, and has directed the music for many shows including 'The Spitfire Grill', 'Cotton
Patch Gospel', 'Quilters', 'Amahl and the Night Visitors', 'Godspell', and 'Fiddler on
the Roof'. Bill is the composer and music director of The Canadian Badlands
Passion Play and sings with the <a href="http://canadianchamberchoir.ca/welcome/">Canadian Chamber Choir</a> (2016 Juno nomination). Bill and his wife Renita have four children and two
grandchildren. Bill enjoys running, mountain biking, hockey, and home
renovations.</span></i></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bill Hamm, Music Director Rosebud Theatre and Rosebud School of the Arts.</span></i></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What first drew you to Rosebud and what made
you stay?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I came because I had seen a show in the
summer of 1987, and liked the vibe and world-view of the place. After getting
my Masters degree in the spring of ’89, I asked if they might be looking for a
Music Director. They were, and the rest is history. I had chances to leave for
other jobs, but felt in my gut that I should stay. I was curious to see what this
would become.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Bill Hamm surrounded by cast in Rosebud Theatre's Cotton Patch Gospel (2013). Photo by Morris Ertman.</i></span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Describe what your job entails?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As Music Director, I oversee music
activities in the school and theatre. I’ve played on my strengths and interests
as a choral director; we have five choirs based out of Rosebud! I’ve also been
interested in in Folk, Bluegrass, etc… When another Music Director comes, they
will shape the program to their strengths and interests. I train singers for
the stage and for musical performance by working breath, resonance, and
articulation in order to execute the craft of tempo, dynamics, and
articulation, and a wide expressive range.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s the first thing you do when approaching a
musical production?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I scan the script and make up a matrix to
see which singers/characters are in which song. As I do this, I learn the songs
for myself, and imagine what kind of singer we need for each character and each
song.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A secret shot of Bill doing his thing. Photo by <a href="http://laurenhammphoto.com/">Lauren Hamm Photography</a></span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What do you find most challenging about the process?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Adapting the instrumentation to suit our
limited resources. For example: we can’t hire the full orchestra that the piece
is scored for, so we adapt to whom we can hire.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s the most rewarding?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Releasing the show into the hands/voices of
the performers.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Is there an opportunity you haven't had (in the theatre)
that’s on your bucket list?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A major kick-ass fight! (Can we say
“kick-ass”?) Kick-butt.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bill was drafted for the 2016 Juno Cup, a charity hockey game between nominated musicians and former NHL players. Amazing photo by <a href="http://laurenhammphoto.com/">Lauren Hamm Photography</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Your last name seems to invite puns… If you had to
pick a favorite nickname…?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Hammer. Billy.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">(Editor’s
note: very James Bond. “My name is Hammer. Billy Hammer”)</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">In three words, how would you describe the music for ‘The
Spitfire Grill?’ </span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Storytelling. Ensemble. Expressive.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What advice would you give your 20 year-old self? </span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Spend more time preparing. Don’t trust your
ability, education, experience. It’s in the mundane preparation that the magic
happens.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Go-to shower song?</span></i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It's the whole Hamm family! Their genuine love and diverse giftings make Rosebud the loveliest Hamm-let around. Photo by <a href="http://laurenhammphoto.com/">Lauren Hamm Photography.</a></span></td></tr>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">As a beloved member of the Rosebud community, Bill Hamm's
creative talent, musical capabilities, and consummate professionalism make
every show he works on a “must see”. But 'The Spitfire Grill' is particularly
exceptional… the soaring melodies and folk flavors are right in his (and our) wheelhouse.
It’s a musical you may have never seen but you don’t want to miss. For tickets
and more information, visit www.rosebudtheatre.com<a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/">www.rosebudtheatre.com</a></span></i><br />
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<i>Special thanks to <a href="http://laurenhammphoto.com/">Lauren Hamm Photography</a> for spectacular Bill photos. Check out her website and witness her extraordinary ability to capture the light in and around others.</i><br />
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Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-53859511871305705192017-06-12T15:01:00.002-06:002017-09-15T14:12:57.528-06:00The Spitfire Grill: Movie to Musical<style>
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<span lang="EN-US">In 1995, an unassuming independent film
took the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival. <i>The Spitfire Grill</i> was written
and directed by Lee David Zlotoff (creator of <i>MacGyver</i>!), but the original
idea for making the movie<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>was
the brain/heart child of Malcolm Roger Courts, long-time director and CEO
of the Sacred Heart League. The non-profit organization was looking to
finance a film and read more than 200 screenplays before connecting with Zlotoff. By the end of 1994 the story was written, and <i>The Spitfire Grill </i>was born. At Sundance it was offered $10 Million on the
spot by Castle Rock Entertainment, the largest sum ever paid outright for the
rights to an independent feature film. Profits were used to construct a school
for 450 children in Southhaven, Mississippi.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The story follows Percy, a young woman released
from prison who literally takes a page from a travel book to make her way to
the beautiful but dwindling town of Gilead. Hired as a
waitress at the Spitfire Grill, (which has been on the market for years), she convinces the feisty owner to raffle off the
restaurant for $100 per entry. As the raffle gains traction, both Percy's past and mysteries of the town are unearthed to ultimately bind the
broken and revitalize a long-lost place with new purpose. </span></div>
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In 1999, Fred Valley and James Valcq (a writing team who had been friends since
high-school music camp) were looking for a project. When they saw
<i>The Spitfire Grill,</i> they were moved to adapt it for the stage with an all
new original blue-grass and folk inspired score. The project was mentored by Arthur
Laurents (<i>West Side Story, Gypsy, The Way We Were,</i> among others) who encouraged the
team to find their own emotional truth in the material, which ultimately led to a different ending from the film. After a workshop at George Street
Playhouse, the musical was commissioned for the 2000/2001 season at
Playwright Horizons in New York and subsequently won the
prestigious Richard Rodgers Production Award. Since then the musical
has over 350 productions, not only in every major American city but across
Canada, Germany, South Korea, Australia, and Japan. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>The Spitfire Grill</i> was created before the
current craze of turning movies into musicals. Nowadays, it wouldn’t be all that surprising to see <i>Lego Batman</i> on Broadway. But <i>The Spitfire Grill </i>is a thing of itself: wholly adapted from the movie but astounding in its own right. You don't have to have seen the movie to be enraptured by this story. Likewise, if you have seen the film, there's something new in store: not only an alternate ending but a transcendent musical experience that takes the Spitfire from the screen and somehow expands the story. </span></div>
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<i>The Spitfire Grill </i>hits the spot. But you don’t have to take our word for it...</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">“A complete work of theatrical
resourcefulness. A compelling story that flows with grace and carries the rush
of anticipation. The warm, indigenous American Fold sound of Mr. Valcq’s score
is, harmonically and melodically, as theatrical as it is grass roots… The
musical is freeing. It is penetrated by honesty and it glows!”</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">“The longing for a place like Gilead, well
removed from the big, troublesome world, is real enough – perhaps now more than
ever. The show’s creators tap into that longing with unembarrassed directness…
Sophisticates may find themselves powerless to resist. Well before the show
reaches its conclusion, many of the New York City Slickers in the audience may
be ready to enter Percy’s raffle themselves.” </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">“An abundance of Warmth, Spirit and
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<i><span lang="EN-US">“Rich and Satisfying! Tender and Touching!”
The country-tinged score fits like a favorite flannel shirt. Like the coffee
cake served at the diner, The Spitfire Grill actually leaves you wanting a
second helping.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">“A soulful musical. The amiable country
flavored tunes and lyrics are transcendant. It is not often that material moves
me to tears, but this was one of those occasions… What even in normal times
would be a joy is, in these troubled ones, sheer nourishment.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><i> 'The Spitfire Grill' opens this week and plays on the Rosebud Opera House Stage from June 16 - September 2. Grab your dad for a Father's Day date that celebrates food, family, and bright futures. For tickets and further information visit </i><a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/"><i>www.rosebudtheatre.</i>com</a></span></span> Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-20929127991262159462017-05-31T14:08:00.000-06:002017-09-15T14:13:13.848-06:00Sound Scaping with Luke Ertman<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Luke
Ertman has been composing, recording, and performing music for over 10 years.
He has composed for television, live ensembles, and over 50 theatre productions
across Western Canada. He was nominated for Jessie Richardson Awards for his
designs for ‘My Name is Asher Lev’ and ‘The Seafarer’, and received a Rosie
Award nomination for Best Music for the short film ‘Carl’s Way’. Luke has a
unique ability to morph different styles and genres of music while pursuing a
sound that is unique and at the same time familiar. He received a Bachelor of
Music with Distinction from the University of Alberta with specialization in
Composition and Theory and Classical Singing. He runs a recording studio from
his home and his band Fools Tongue has garnered national and international
recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Where do you call home?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I live on an acreage just outside of Leduc
with my wife, 2 kids, 2 dogs, and cat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I was completing my Bachelors of Music
degree and wondering what practical applications it may have. I was studying
composition and theory in particular and really didn’t see many needs for it in
the field. I must have told Dad about that and he offered to let me write music
for a theatre show. And I’ve been writing steadily for north of 10 years now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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working with your dad, Artistic Director Morris Ertman?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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similar aesthetic. Neither one of us are “realists” or “purists”. We tend to be
centred around the emotional journey of a play as opposed to the specifics of
SFX (sound effects) etc… I think that removes a handicap that can
sometimes come into play. It allows me to write and trust what I write. I think
the hardest thing is that we stay in the same house during rehearsals. There is
no getting away from the play once I’m down there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the play. I absolutely start to hear ideas, sounds, melodies, etc… I sort of
jot those down on a piece of paper as I go. Then I usually meet with the
director. We talk about the other design elements, the general feel, any
specific obstacles that may be in a given script. From there I usually write
the top of the show or the climax of the show. I go back and forth with the
director til we both feel that it’s right. After that I sort of write out from
that reference point and call it a day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">CBC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There is an American keyboard player called
Tigran Hamasyan that I have been listening to a ton lately. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘The Skin of Our Teeth’?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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course, the end. There is an epic journey of humanity happening here that
arrives at a sort of beautiful thesis. I think my goal was trying to create a
universal theme or sound that could underpin the funny episodic nature of the
piece and land an audience at the end. I wanted to play against the rapid
movement of the piece and try and find continuity.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Mary’s
Wedding</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> is such a beautiful script. And the theatric
nature of it really allowed me to have fun with the music. It was able to fill
a really big role which was super fun.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Do you have any secret hobbies?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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have a 7000 or so square ft garden that we tend to each summer. It’s huge and
we eat from it year long!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>An Almost Holy Picture,</i> at Rosebud. <i>The
Canadian Badlands Passion Play</i>. My band <a href="http://www.foolstongue.ca/">Fools Tongue</a> is super close to
releasing a new album. Fall, I really hope! (Here's an unfinished preview of one of the songs)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Skin of Our Teeth’ closes this week! You’ve only got a few more chances to catch
Luke Ertman’s deep and dulcet musical musings on this epic adventure through time. After that we're moving to our summer offerings, ‘The Spitfire Grill’ and ‘An
Almost Holy Picture’. For tickets and information on all our shows, visit
<a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/">rosebudtheatre.com</a><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-14769855999053874132017-05-24T15:22:00.000-06:002017-09-15T14:13:28.186-06:00Engaged to an Audience<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week we're talking with resident company member Heather Pattengale, who's currently on stage in 'The Skin of Our Teeth' as the silly and sassy house-servant, Sabina. Her character regularly breaks out of the story to dish with the audience, disagree with the playwright, or fight for her right to perform on her own terms.</span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Heather Pattengale talks shop with spectators as in Rosebud Theatre's <i>The Skin of Our Teeth</i>. Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>So what's it like to look the audience in the eye when you're in the middle of navigating the show?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Interacting with the audience is one of the scariest - and therefore most exciting - parts of the show for me. The audience may not know it, but in those moments when I speak directly to them, each one of them are my scene partner... I'm depending on them, looking to see if they understand what I'm saying, if they're on my side, or if they think I'm just nuts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Does this "scene partner" drastically change from show to show?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Depending on how an audience reacts and responds to my addresses, I get a sense of what kind of show it is going to be. That is to say - it does not affect my lines much; my lines are set out for me by the playwright and there is no improvisation in this show. But it may affect how I deliver them. And, just like in [any] show, how an audience reacts certainly does affect how deeply the story is going to land: for them, for me, and how much energy there is in the room to play with and springboard off of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Is it exhausting or exhilarating, riding that tightrope of not knowing quite what to expect?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As performers we of course pour everything we have into each performance. But something magical happens when the audience meets us there, when they not only receive everything we're pouring out, but respond generously in kind. The energy become exponential, much more than anything we can manufacture on our own. And it is in that interplay that real life happens. The audience becomes improvisors because they are invested in what's happening too, and respond honestly and openly: sometimes by listening so intently you could hear a pin drop, sometimes by laughing or scoffing or gasping or groaning or even proclaiming!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sabina lodges a complaint with the Stage Manager. (From left: Declan O'Reilly, Heather Pattengale, & Peter Church.) Photo by Morris Ertman</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Do people ever interact with you while you're on stage?</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been on stage when members of the audience unexpectedly shout out "No!" or "Yes!" and let me tell you, it's the best, because it means they are along for the ride and care about the outcome of the story and can't help but reach out to the characters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>The story alone is a wild ride of cataclysmic catastrophes. Do you think "breaking the fourth wall", (when actors break out of the story to engage with the audience directly), adds to the adventure? </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want audiences to feel that they can climb into the story too; that there is a place for them inside it, because there is! And that is true of every show that happens in live theatre. Depending on the specific audience and their reaction, sometimes it takes flight in surprising and life-giving ways, and sometimes less so. But it is different every time. So I hope people come and see this show more than once, because it's never the same thing twice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>'The Skin of Our Teeth' plays for two more weeks! It's an explosion of ideas and kooky characters, all wrapped up in a story that celebrates the ups and downs of humanity. For tickets and information, visit <a href="http://rosebudtheatre.com/">rosebudtheatre.com</a></i></span></div>
Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-23911652062043443092017-05-11T10:39:00.002-06:002017-09-15T14:13:43.731-06:00Resident Company "Snapshot" - Norma Roth<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">A member of our resident acting company as well as a
professional theatre designer, Norma's previous credits on the Rosebud Theatre stage include ‘Curious
Savage’, ‘Cariboo Magi’, ‘Voice of the Prairie’, ‘A Rosebud Country Christmas’, and 'The Miracle Worker', among others. Some of her many design credits include ‘Valley Song’, ‘Last Train to Nibroc’, ‘The Secret Garden’, 'Queen Milli of Galt', 'Gifts of the Magi', and ‘Shadowlands’. Norma is a graduate of Rosebud School of the Arts (FRSA) and the University of
Alberta (BFA).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Norma Roth and company in <i>The Skin of Our Teeth</i>. Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">How long have you been part of the ‘Bud? <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I came to Rosebud in ’91. I came on a whim,
was interested in theatre. Who knew what would happen as the result of one
small decision…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">You’ve been an integral member of the resident acting
company for decades! Do you have a favorite show?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Hmm… not sure about a favorite. <i>Christmas
in the Country </i>was pretty amazing. I got to play Mark Lewandowski’s stand up
base for one song. Learned like, four notes. Felt so cool, you wouldn’t believe
it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nathan Schmidt and Norma Roth in <i>Christmas in the Country, </i>Rosebud Theatre 2001. Photo by Morris Ertman</span>.</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">You’ve also got a degree in theatre design. What’s the
best part of the design process for you? <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Finding something by chance that is
perfect, better than I could have done by my own intention. If I was a
spiritual woman, I might suspect someone else was involved :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s the most challenging
part?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US">That moment when you are just over
half-way through and you are suddenly struck with the conviction [that] every
thing, every single thing, totally sucks. I have learned, over the years, to
ignore said conviction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">How do you approach shows
differently as an actor vs. a designer?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US">As a designer, I approach the script with
a pen and paper. <i>What is being said about the characters, the location, the
time period</i>? Whatever I am responsible for. As an actor, I approach the script
with my heart and body. <i>How is this person me? What do I need to do to serve
the story</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Coffee or Tea, and how do
you take it?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Tea! I cannot stand the sight, taste, or
smell of coffee! I would take garlic breath a thousand times over breath laced
with the beans.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">In ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’,
you play a number of roles, but noticeably the Fortune Teller… a woman who calls things as they
are. She's strangely capable of recognizing the weight of the time and events taking place around her. Do you identify with those abilities?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I do value truth tellers. The Fortune
Teller could use a little more compassion but she is trying to save everyone.
She doesn’t candy-coat it or coddle anyone, especially Sabina. The Fortune
Teller sees things go round and round, lessons have to be repeated until they
actually change the student. Maybe she isn’t compassionate because she knows it
will keep happening come what may. That must be tiresome after the 2493<sup>rd</sup>
time. I think life is very much like her character. Life isn’t there to make
you feel better about yourself. You have to figure out how to manage. There are
many, many resources available to help you figure out how to manage, but you
have to make your own choices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Norma Roth as the Fortune Teller in <i>The Skin of Our Teeth.</i> Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What would the Fortune
Teller say to you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US">I think she would share her beer with me.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Anything unexpected
happening in performances?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US">I didn’t think people would see the
Fortune Teller as beautiful. So many people gush all over me in that costume. I
feel gritty and hard and immovable. So I was surprised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Has Rosebud changed much
over the years? Anything you hope it might still become?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Oh, Rosebud is always changing! So much.
When the place is required to get on with the next step, somehow it does. It
just keeps going. That has to be supported, progress and all that, but I do
hope what I loved and still love about it stays safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Any pearls of acting wisdom
you hold on to?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US">Stop dropping the ends of your sentences.
If people can’t hear you, no one will care. I think my best trait as an actor
is that I want to communicate with the audience. I r<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">eally</i> want to communicate. I could spend the rest of time getting
better at that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">How about for design?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If there is something in your design that
doesn’t really tell the story, you don’t need it. Make sure what you create
needs to be there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Norma Roth's bonafide truth-telling is on display until June
3<sup>rd</sup> as a seer and seeker in the profoundly adventurous ‘The Skin of
Our Teeth’. We consider her a certified treasure, but come and decide that for yourself! For tickets or more information, visit <a href="http://rosebudtheatre.com/">rosebudtheatre.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-9503528574313716732017-05-04T16:21:00.000-06:002017-09-15T14:14:03.103-06:00The Case for Stillness<div class="MsoNormal">
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I am haunted by stories.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’ve been plagued by some Biblical stories
the last few weeks. It’s a hard book. So many events are fantastical, impractical,
and utterly lacking in common sense. The whole thing feels like a fairy tale
where miracle manna falls from the sky, city walls suddenly crash down to
rubble, people wander through deserts following clouds, a woman looking back
turns into a statue of salt, God comes down as a man to die, and graves open to
return captives from lands of the dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Harry Potter has nothing on the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In particular, I’ve been processing the story
of Gideon, who led an army against the Midianites. A practical and tactical task, for the most part. But on the way…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too
many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast ‘My
own strength has saved me.’ Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with
fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’" So twenty-two thousand men left, while
ten thousand remained. But the Lord said to Gideon, "There are still too many
men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I
say, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go; but if I say, ‘This one shall
not go with you,’ he shall not go."</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US">So Gideon took the men down to the water.
There the Lord told him, "Separate those who lap the water with their tongues
as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink." Three hundred of them drank
from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to
drink.</span><span lang="EN-US">The Lord said to Gideon, "With the three
hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your
hands. Let all the others go home." (</span>Judges 7:2-7)</blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">In the story, they go on to win against the
Midianites because God basically scares the enemy into fleeing when they think
they’re surrounded by a large army. God delivered a hoodwink. Smoke and mirrors made a miracle.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">I am haunted by Biblical stories. By all
the wild events and characters. I want to believe that God moves in mysterious ways, people's prayers are answered, the dead impossibly raised. That there's a whisper - if we listen - The Spirit of God who takes control and care of all our needs. It’s a fantastical
dependence that seems almost wishful, but also requires the greatest kind of faith. There can be an awful silence in the moments before deliverance: like the Saturday before resurrection. Or the 300 men fairly certain they
were probably gonna die. Or all the ones who have, waiting in faith for the promise they lived as if they already received.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Not too many months ago, Nathan and I
went to see Martin Scorcese’s <i>Silence</i>. What an impossible story. People tortured to the place of denying their faith. Those who
did not deny Christ were killed… except for a few compromisers.
And the grace of the Father’s heart is revealed to those compromisers in a way
that I can’t say. It’ll iron out the movie. But it is so amazing…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Bible is full of stories of provision, but also people who were martyred: the stoning of Stephen, Paul and Silas imprisoned, and Jesus condemned and crucified with nothing but his calling to sustain him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But in the middle of all that impossibility, there's talk of "The peace that passes all understanding". Centuries later, Reinhold Nieburh wrote this poem:</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">I am haunted, not only by Biblical Stories,
but movies and poems and plays and novels: artistic expressions of the human events
we experience. I
hunger for transcendent moments where we touch the heart of God and the
Cosmos and our Brothers and Sisters past, present, and future, all at once. For
in a story, we are all united. We experience the uncertainty of the characters
as we await the conclusion that
ultimately draws their narrative into focus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I am also haunted by ministry… the notion
that a life can be lived merging the transcendent with the everyday. That the
Creator of the Universe could be invited into our midst again and again, and
that somehow we could dare to believe that He would make His presence known.
And it is that desire, along with the love of Biblical stories, movies, poems,
plays, paintings and novels that led me to the altar of the church to be a
minister… and also lured me from the pulpit to the theatre. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And I’ll tell you why. Make-believe was
easier to handle than the working out of story in community, which is what
ministry requires. So, this particular Jonah got in a boat and sailed away from
that idea good and quick. The transcendent is so much easier when it can be
revered as an ideal. And this Jonah
didn’t even mind being swallowed up by a whale for a wee while, since he knew
that part of the story was dramatic and romantic and unusual and glorious!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And then that whale spit him up on the
shore of Rosebud, where he joined a host of people longing to tell stories,
touch the heart of God, and somehow pay the bills. And we’ve lived through
times of plenty, and also through times of want. In our current economic
climate it can feel like “here we go again…” smack down in the middle of a
battle with the army reduced from 32,000 to 300. Times when dependence on
God becomes necessity, not a mythic notion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I hit the pillow last night in some turmoil
coming out of a long day of administrative impossibility. As I drifted off, the words “Be still and know I am God” repeated
themselves over and over in my head. I didn’t want to forget them, so just kept
repeating them until I lost consciousness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Be still, and know I am God.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And then I remembered a moment during <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Espresso</i> rehearsals in its first
incarnation at Pacific Theatre. We’d been developing the piece over several
years and here we were, finally in rehearsals, telling a story I knew in my
bones came straight from the heart of God. I found Lucia one morning, sitting
on the back stairs, waiting for Stage Management to open the door to the
theatre. And she said out loud, in a little girl wonder voice, “Jesus is here.”
She whispered it like it was magic in the dark. “Jesus is here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Be still, and know I am God.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And when Lauren deGraaf played Jesus in
<i>Cotton Patch Gospel</i>, there was a moment in rehearsal where I asked her to hug a
bag of hate mail during the song about Jesus’s death. The moment was pure
miracle. It deeply impacted a handful of people so much that some wanted
pictures of it – like vials of Holy Water at some shrine… something to carry
home as a talisman for transcendence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In the practical turmoil that is theatre: the planning
and creating and interpreting and working out finances and collaborating within community: these kind of revelations happen in stillness. It’s a beat in rehearsal when you’re about to ask something
ridiculous of an actor, but before you do, you pause to listen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Be still and know I am here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And out of the stillness, the impulse doesn’t
go away. The creative requirement gets stronger, and all of a sudden you’re
leading 300 warriors to face the Midionites instead of 32,000. And it doesn’t
necessarily make any sense. How God wanted LESS people, to make MORE noise. But
before that could happen, they had to crawl, silently, in the dark. And also, how</span></div>
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<li>Jonah abides in the belly of a whale and
ponders his fate.</li>
<li>5,000 people sit down and settle
before Jesus breaks bread to feed them.</li>
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<span lang="EN-US">When I came to Rosebud to take on the
position of Artistic Director, a song by Steve Bell came to mind.</span></div>
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Down roads I’d never have chosen seems to
be the mantra, I think. It is the curiosity that wonders about the trail leading
off the main road, that sometimes is a command to throw caution to the wind. It’s the moment when words we hold in our heart
bubble to the surface, and we take breath to give them voice. It is in the
breath, when we know the words are coming, but we must intake the air, where we can recognize and know that all that comes after might just come from God. And the words
might just feed five thousand people… or one. But the number shouldn't really
matter.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Lucia Frangione's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Espresso</i> played to packed houses and almost empty ones. Sometimes God
multiplies our work and sometimes a single weeping woman wants an
iPhone picture of an actor hugging a mail bag.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When we feed five thousand, everyone is
happy. When we feed one or two, there are few witnesses to tell the tale. And
in those moments, these words have to carry the day. </span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US">Do not worry about your life, what you
will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they
do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can anyone of you by worrying
add a single hour to your life? </span><span lang="EN-US">…So do not worry, saying, “What shall we
eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the pagans run
after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But
seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be
given to you as well. Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry
about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:25-34)</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">If I am honest, I am haunted and troubled
by such words. But at the end of the day, His words are daily bread to fill my
hunger and keep at bay my need for security and certainty. Maybe in and of
themselves, they are the miracle I seek, because it was His words that calmed my
spirit last night, and met me early this morning. And maybe, as we wait on His words, it transforms the story. Maybe stories are a way to connect in the stillness and remind ourselves of the bigger picture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I leave you with some of my favorite words…
prayers by any other name I think.</span> </div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US">Eventually all things merge into one, and a
river runs through it. The River was cut by the world’s great flood and runs
over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless
raindrops. Under the rocks are the words. And some of the words are theirs. I
am haunted by waters.</span> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US">- A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean</span></blockquote>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And eventually, all the words, all the stories,
all the originals will merge into one final, ultimate narrative: our Creator's.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I am haunted by the sound of his voice, and
in the stillness, strain my ear to hear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">- Morris Ertman</span><br />
*Staff & Student Chapel - Rosebud School of the Arts - April 25, 2017</div>
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Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-33148889933685392222017-04-27T15:12:00.001-06:002017-09-15T14:14:31.270-06:00Guest Artist "Snapshot" - Daniel Fong<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Daniel
Fong makes his Rosebud Theatre debut playing various roles in this season’s
‘The Skin of Our Teeth’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best known for
his work in the Calgary theatre scene, previous credits include: ‘Fortune Falls’
(Catalyst Theatre / ATP); ‘The Circle’ (ATP); ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
(Theatre Calgary / Shakespeare by the Bow); ‘Twelfth Night’, DiVerseCity (The
Shakespeare Company); ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Belfry Theatre);<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ (Stage West for
Kids); ‘Spring Awakening’ (Artists Collective Theatre); ‘Twelfth Night’
(Suspension of Disbelief); and ‘The Wasp’ (Ignite! 2013). Credits for Film / TV
include: Fargo, Wynonna Earp, Mutant World, The Dorm, Forsaken, and Klondike.
Daniel is a graduate of Grant MacEwan University Theatre Arts Program. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsgybtlycPcZzuZiNp9nsHRd5kAuxPawKDdc7yOp0gEfxtr05da2Eur99S_4250tKZ5dCuZLXQJ5TVSBAyNukOXyX5qXqrul2mB66Ehvfblbmjf61o5zmRTdKc5o8-q5R7xFwAE9Zd1naE/s1600/DSC_7875.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsgybtlycPcZzuZiNp9nsHRd5kAuxPawKDdc7yOp0gEfxtr05da2Eur99S_4250tKZ5dCuZLXQJ5TVSBAyNukOXyX5qXqrul2mB66Ehvfblbmjf61o5zmRTdKc5o8-q5R7xFwAE9Zd1naE/s400/DSC_7875.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Daniel Fong in Rosebud Theatre's <i>The Skin of our Teeth</i>. Photo by Morris Ertman.</span></td></tr>
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</o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Where do you call home? <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I call Calgary my home, I was born and
raised there, however I did go to Edmonton for University!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s the city’s best kept secret?</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">All of the amazing food you can get Every
day I am discovering a new restaurant that just blows me away!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s your favorite late night snack?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Popcorn from the movie theatre… nothing
beats popcorn from the movie theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">“Must-have” morning ritual?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Taking the longest and hottest shower
possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Coffee or Tea and how do you take it?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I don’t drink coffee and I only drink tea
if I am sick! Otherwise I usually just drink as much water as I can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">You’ve done a fair amount of musicals, including the
central role in ‘Fortune Falls’ this last October with Catalyst Theatre at ATP.
What’s a story you’d like to see turned into a musical?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I don’t know if it’s a story per se, but I
would love to see a Sci-fi musical of some kind that is done right! I think
it’s a genre that hasn’t been explored (maybe for good reason) but I would love
to see what it would be like!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Daniel Fong delivers a semi-apocalyptic singing telegram. Photo by Morris Ertman.</span> </td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">In ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ you play a number of roles,
in a play that has layers of meaning. What’s something that’s resonated for you
in the rehearsal process?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The biggest thing for me coming out of this
show has been the understanding of how circular the tropes and habits of
humanity are. We are constantly coming back to the same trials and problems of
old, and yet for some reason we always see them as some brand new problem that
has never been faced before.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Any unexpected moments or mishaps in rehearsal or
performance?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, I can say, as embarrassed as I am
about it, for the first time ever in rehearsal, I fell off the stage. But the
biggest treat has been getting to watch all my castmates and learn from their
acting and performances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s your favorite way to fill your free time?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I am obsessed with board games and so
lately I have been organizing games nights and playing as many different ones
as I can get my hands on!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lastly, what’s a piece of advice you hold close to
your heart?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A teacher of mine in University game me a
little card when I graduated, and on it was a quote that said,<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I do not live in a life-threatening
profession, you will get through this.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">- And it has always been my saving thought
when the business gets stressful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">It's no ordinary play! Come see Daniel Fong and host of characters navigate time and other natural disasters in ‘The
Skin of Our Teeth’, playing on our Opera House Main-stage until June 3. For tickets and more information visit <a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/">www.rosebudtheatre.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-5700782316848084602017-04-19T22:18:00.000-06:002017-09-15T14:14:45.094-06:00Founding Father: LaVerne Erickson<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">This
week we talk with local phenomenon and founder, LaVerne Erickson. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LaVerne and his wife, Arlene live in Rosebud,
Alberta, where LaVerne founded Rosebud School of the Arts and Rosebud Theatre.
He also founded The Canadian Badlands Passion Play in Drumheller, the Canadian
Badlands Performing Arts Summer School, and Chemainus Theatre Festival on
Vancouver Island. He coined the name “Canadian Badlands” which has become an
international tourism icon. In 2010, he was appointed Alberta Tourism Ambassador.
He has been awarded honors in the fields of economic development and tourism,
culture and arts, and was given a Legacy award as one of Alberta’s 100
outstanding citizens. As an educator he has taught at the elementary, secondary,
college and university levels. As a planner he was worked with communities
across Western Canada. As an artist, he has composed a great deal of choral
music and his paintings hang in public and private collections. LaVerne is an
artist, entrepreneur, and visionary, inspired by his love for God and people.
In retirement he serves on the boards of a variety of organizations, champions
rural development, and loves spending time with his grandchildren.</span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">LaVerne and Arlene Erickson. </span></td></tr>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">Where did you grow up?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I was born into the homesteading community
of North Star, Alberta, one hour north of Peace River. My childhood memories of
homesteading life probably played an important role in my development. Then I
lived in Edmonton, Rosebud, Lethbridge, Calgary, and returned to Rosebud in
1973.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Were your parents artistic?</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My mother was a piano teacher and my father
was a pastor who enjoyed woodworking and creating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s your must-have morning ritual?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Morning prayer, scripture reading, and
communion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">You’re an ideas man… with the rare ability to execute
your visions. Where do these ideas come from and how do you know when you’re
really on to something?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My ideas can be categorized as conceptual
analysis, problem solving, perceived opportunities, and inspiration. An idea
that is a mixture of the foregoing and is welcomed by people with whom I am in
conversation gets explored further. Social interaction is often the matrix for
the growth of something important.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">You’re also a bit of a Renaissance man… and obviously
have a passion for the arts. Do you have a favorite artistic expression?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Philosophy is my favorite discipline and
aesthetics inform my enjoyment of all art forms.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">LaVerne Erickson and his brother, Tim. Rosebud, 1982. Photo courtesy <a href="http://www.aportraitofcanada.ca/?cat=3">Harry Palmer</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">When you dreamed about what Rosebud could be,
what did you see?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">A rose is God’s botanical love song, abounding in beauty, too soon
fading, forever treasured. Its bud holds all the potential of the rose,
protected by mothering thorns, rooted in the good earth and nurtured by spring.
So it is with this little place called Rosebud. Rosebud mothered native
civilizations, provided a community home for settlers, ranchers, farmers,
dreamers, captured the imagination of Canada’s Group of Seven, and people of
heart. I saw the nurturing potential of Rosebud that could blossom under the
loving care of artistic gardeners and waft its fragrance on the wind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Why Rosebud "Theatre", specifically?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">My desire for Rosebud Theatre is for it to tell stories of
significance that touch the heart.<br />
Storytelling, like the rose, is woven into our human existence. Stories have
been told for thousands of years at campfires in the Rosebud Valley. Theatre is
Rosebud’s modern campfire for storytelling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Why a tiny village in the middle of the
prairie?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Rosebud requires one to intentionally travel far into the country to
see this bud that blossoms anew every year.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo courtesy Bonita Hudson</span>.</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s something the Rosebud community might not know
about you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My introduction to Alberta political life
was through Preston Manning’s invitations to sit with him in the Speaker’s
Gallery at the Alberta Legislature while his father was premier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What’s something people might not know about Rosebud</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The first staff members had to commit to
three years of service and pay a deposit $3,000 to the staff association. The
early staff shared much in common, including meals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Is there a particular Rosebud production that has resonated
with you over the years?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://rosebudcoloredglasses.blogspot.ca/2016/08/jb-priestleys-inspector-calls.html">An Inspector Calls</a></span></i><span lang="EN-US"> continues to strike me as an
important social narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">You saw Rosebud Theatre’s latest production, ‘The Skin
of Our Teeth’, on opening night. Was there a particular moment that that spoke
to you? <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I was struck not with a particular moment
but with its many relevant insights into contemporary society. It was like
watching a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Far Side</i> comic that
continually delivered punch lines. I think this is one of the most important
plays that Rosebud Theatre has presented. Its humour and poignancy are
arresting.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LaVerne Erickson, center right, with the cast of <i>The Skin of Our Teeth. </i></td></tr>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">‘The
Skin of Our Teeth’ runs now through June 3. Read more about the story <a href="https://rosebudcoloredglasses.blogspot.ca/2017/03/notes-on-end-of-world-inside-skin-of.html">here</a>. Or check out our website,
<a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/">rosebudtheatre.com</a> for tickets, special events, discounts, and reviews! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Krista Marushyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977920481044855481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805934804449182681.post-22170469251342673372017-04-13T12:35:00.001-06:002017-09-15T14:15:25.030-06:00Reviews for Skin are In!<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Skin of Our Teeth has opened on our 2017 MainStage and here's what critics and audience members have to say about this incomparable show!</span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>The Skin of Our Teeth</i> plays March 31 - June 3 at Rosebud Theatre. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/theatre/review-rosebud-production-of-wilders-the-skin-of-our-teeth-delicious-satire"><i>The Skin of Our Teeth</i> Delicious Satire</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Louis B. Hobson - Calgary Herald</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Its themes couldn't be more relevant... If you want to know why it is held in such esteem, just drive out and catch Morris Ertman's production of this allegorical comedy at Rosebud."</i> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"[Heather] Pattengale is a marvel of wit, irony, humour, manipulation, and seduction. She is her own tempest in a teapot.... [Declan] O'Reilly is a beautifully befuddled everyman with [Jeany] Van Meltebeke as a bastion of rigid common sense."</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://thehalfstep.live/2017/04/03/eternal-optimist-thornton-wilder-meet-the-end-of-the-world/#more-4377">The Half-Step</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stephen Hunt</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"The curtain rises on Rosebud's 2017 season with a truly epic production that's ambitious, occasionally bewildering, funny - and ultimately, quite moving."</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"Pattengale's Sabina is willful and funny, a charismatic dynamo... Sabina keeps the pedal to the metal, in a knockout of a performance by Pattengale, who seems to hit it out of the park in every single role she performs. She's matched by O'Reilly... a hugely sympathetic actor who runs the full emotional range, from paternal to scoundrel to fool, across the breadth of time - and somehow makes it all feel plausible."</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"And all of a sudden, you realize that underneath all of the end-of-times scenarios, The Skin of Our Teeth delivers one sure-fire truth that resonated across the stage and into the sold-out opera house Saturday afternoon: when all else is falling apart around you - including the planet - the only safe haven a person can really count on, is family."</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.strathmorestandard.com/2017/04/06/thornton-wilders-the-skin-of-our-teeth-at-rosebud-theatre">The Strathmore Standard</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monique Massiah</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Be prepared to be confused, bamboozled, and have a good giggle when you watch Rosebud's production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth... [it's] a madcap wild ride."</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://brooksbulletin.com/default.aspx?contentid=6263">'The Skin of Our Teeth' a Story of Hope</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sara Dreidger - The Brooks Bulletin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"Rosebud's charm is outdone only by its commitment to excellence...There is a beautiful chaos that emerges, leaving a profound impact on its audience. This is a story of hope - hope for society as a whole to seek the highest good together and to embrace our oneness as a human race."</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And from our patrons...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"... One of the best plays I've seen in recent years. It's an honest reflection of the best and worst of humanity: our love, our hate, our ingenuity, our idiocy... it's all there. I felt it was performed with great passion, and I applaud the bold choice to mount this show. Fantastic work, everyone!"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adam C. Schnell</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"Congratulations to [Morris], your cast and crew for a brilliant evening of theatre. As you are aware, I have seen almost all of Rosebud Theatre's productions over the past 15 years and Skin of Our Teeth ranks one of the best, if not THE best production I have seen on the Rosebud Stage. Thank you so much...I've been thinking about it all week."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kenna Ricard</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"When my father died, my older brother offered a sermon about who God is not. It was a relevant topic considering the tragedy of the circumstance and the constellation of unanswered prayers. Although there are no cadavers or morticians, theatre is a lot like a funeral. People gather together for a purpose... to see, hear, feel and relate. If the production is of sufficient quality, attendees go away with unanswered questions. The unanswered questions are thought provoking.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>...Like a painting by Monet or Pollock, [The Skin of Our Teeth] isn't a linear replication of a particular reality or storyline. Rather, it is an impression. Artistic impressions are challenging because there is no guaranteed transaction in terms of paying money to feel good. The Skin of Our Teeth is a two hour long, subjective (and brilliant) poem about the human condition. It is a superbly acted, Orwellian-like dystopia, that critiques human nature. It should be seen more than once." </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James Westgate Snell</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>'The Skin of Our Teeth' plays now through June 3. For tickets and information visit <a href="http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/">rosebudtheatre.com</a></i></span><br />
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