WELCOME TO OUR 24TH SEASON!!!September 2nd 2007 |
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Is it really September already? Has the summer really zipped by like this?? Here at Actors Guild, we didn't exactly take the summer off...After closing our 23rd season with a terrifically funny and engaging production of Jane Martin's Anton in Show Business, we proceeded to jump feet first into the waters of summer theatre. We successfully partnered with LexArts to present an evening of Dance/Theatre utterly unique to our region with David Gordon's Pick Up Performance Company's production of Dancing Henry V. That followed our venture into outdoor theatre with Tony Haigh's delightful and inventive staging of Love's Labour's Lost at Equus Run Vineyard. We concluded our summer of fun with a very successful partnership with Paragon Music Theatre, Kiss Me, Kate, that kept audiences tapping their toes in the Downtown Arts Center well into August. Add that to the fact that I personally was able to spend three weeks in Italy attending the 8th Annual La MaMa/Umbria International Director's Symposium and I am currently in Cincinnati where I am in rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company...well then you can begin to see why it seems as if the summer just raced by us here at AGL...
Now we come to my favorite time of year: We are weeks away from launching what promises to be an epic season of storytelling here at AGL. We open our season with celebrated director Sidney Shaw's staging of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Starring dynamite actor Cathy Rawlings, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom will help connect audiences to the genius that was August Wilson. Wilson's epic 10 play cycle depicting the African American experience in each decade of the 20th century was launched with this landmark play, which takes place in a recording studio in 1927 Chicago as legendary singer Ma Rainey shows us what it really means to be a diva...
We will follow up Ma Rainey with our first production of a Shakespeare play in the Downtown Arts Center. AGL associate artist Adam Luckey will take on the celebrated Dane in our production of Hamlet. I am pleased to be partnering with the Washington D.C.-based Cyburbia Productions, a multimedia performance company based at George Mason University, to bring to life the greatest piece of dramatic literature in the western canon and propel it dynamically into the 21st century. Our Hamlet promises to be unlike any Hamlet you have seen as we bring to life a ghost story, a political story, a family story, a revenge story...all within the confines of the Black Box theatre.
We will finish the fall season with another collaboration with Paragon Music Theatre...She Loves Me is a sweet romantic sentimental musical perfect for everybody at the holiday season. If you know the films Shop Around the Corner or You Got Mail; She Loves Me derives from the same source, bringing together two people who are perfect for each other only they don't know it...yet. A wonderful joyful way to wrap up the calendar year, She Love's Me will keep your spirits warm as the weather gets cold...(I know right now it is hard to imagine cold weather but it's coming, I promise you...)...
I hope you will consider joining us this fall for a season of epic storytelling, featuring our regions finest artists, combining with celebrated artists from across the country, to give you an evening of theatrical entertainment that is wholly unique in our region...great shows, great talent, great audiences all combine to create great theatre!!
I will see you at the theatre...
Peace and Love
Richard (Rick) St. Peter
Artistic Director
Actors Guild of Lexington
September 2, 2007
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