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What's PlayingBazaarsNov. 21
St. Stanislaus School benefit, 9 to 4 in Kolbe Hall, Adams. Bake sale, snack bar, games, Chinese auctions, money raffle, crafts, and pierogi.
Blackinton Union Church, 1373 Massachusetts Ave., North Adams; 10 to 2. Crafts table, bake sale, Chinese auction, the Christmas table, and kid's grab bag. Lunch $4, $2 kids.
First Congregational Church, North Adams, 9-2.
Nov. 28
Becket Federated Church, Route 8, holiday bazaar from 9-3. Lunch, crafts, baked goods, holiday and other items. Information: Mary Peltier, Parish House, 413-623-5217.
Dec. 5
Holiday Fair at First Congregational Church, 25 Park Place, Lee, from 10 to 3; handcrafted items, raffles, children's shop, bake sale, cut Christmas trees and lunch from 11 to 1. Includes angel-themed goods from SERRV. Information, 413-243-1033 or www.ucc-lee.org.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Information: Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
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S&Co opens season with Enchanted April12:00AM / Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Savor a taste of Italy, an abundance of laughter and new found intimacy with Shakespeare & Company's season opener Enchanted April. Directed by long-time Company member Normi Noël the award-winning Enchanted April, written by Matthew Barber, runs in Founders' Theatre May 26 - September 2. Previews play May 26, 27, 28, and June 2nd. Press Opening Night is Saturday, June 3 at 8:00 pm.
Enchanted April features as a cast of seasoned actors including Corinna May, Elizabeth Ingram, Malcolm Ingram, Diane Prusha, Tod Randolph and newcomers Seth Powers and Rachael Siegel. For tickets, show times and further information please call the box office at (413) 637-3353 or visit the website, www.shakespeare.org , newly designed by Studio Two of Lenox. Founders' Theatre is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with Group, Student and Senior ticket rates available.
"Like many others, I had loved the film adaptation of Elizabeth von Arnim's most successful novel, Enchanted April" says Noël, "which she began in 1922 while staying in a castle on the Italian Riviera for the month of April. During that time, she began an affair with a young WWI veteran, thirty years younger than her, having recently emerged from an unhappy marriage with Bertrand Russell's brother. It is during this affair that she writes of two women who decide to slip out from under the emotional and spiritual death-knell of others' expectations of living a "blind sort of goodness", and choosing instead, an "enlightened one".
Enchanted April unfolds in dreary postwar London of 1922 where two rain-soaked housewives, Lotty Wilson (Prusha), and Rose Aronot (Randolph) join a glamorous socialite and a lonely widow in a rented castle in Italy for the month of April. As the women succumb to the beauty of the Italian castle they have escaped to they begin to undo the class system, discover new relationships, beauty and a new outlook on life.
This season marks Noël's 27th year with S&Co as an actor, playwright and director. Noël will also perform in her one-woman play No Background Music opening in Founders' August 1st taking on the heart-wrenching role of army nurse Penny Rock. Other S&Co credits include, The Chekov One Acts, Roman Fever, The Other Two, An International Episode, Jack and Jill, All's Well That Ends Well, Betrayal, Off the Map, Songs From the Heart, Mercy, Women of Will part III, Fortune and Misfortune, Virginia, Hamlet, and The Monkey's Paw. Ventfort Hall in Lenox: The Belle of Amherst; The Sea Horse. The Nora Theatre, Boston: Xinghu. Mixed Company, Great Barrington: Talking With. Berkshire Public Theatre: On the Verge.
"Matthew Barber's play, the third telling of this story," adds Noël beautifully reflects the novelist's light hand and comic send up of stolid and deadening patriarchal values, and invites us to find the magic of living. The play delighted me, and had wonderful parts for many of our actors. The proximity of audience to actors in the Founders' three-quarter thrust stage serves the intimacy of the play beautifully, and our dedicated Salon/Wharton audience, I think, will approve."
Costumes are designed by Govane Lohbauer, Scenic and Properties Designs by Rachel Gordon, Lighting Design by Les Dickert, and Sound Design by Dewey Dellay.
Elizabeth Ingram seventh season (Mrs. Graves Enchanted April Actor/Voice Coach). S&Co: Coriolanus (Volumnia), Love's Labor's Lost (Holophernes), Comedy of Errors (The Abbess), The Winter's Tale (Paulina), Mrs. Klein (Mrs. Klein), The Inner House (Edith Wharton) Maisie. Berkshire Theatre Festival: Heartbreak House Syracuse Stage: My Fair Lady, You Never Can Tell, Christmas Carol, A Streetcar Named Desire. Actors Theatre of Louisville: All My Sons; The Company of Women: King Lear; London West End Theatre: Poor Bitos, The Chinese Prime Minister;The National Theatre: Overruled. Television, BBC, ITV series, plays. Syracuse University faculty.
Malcolm Ingram eleventh season (Mellish Wilson in Enchanted April; Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor). S&Co: Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato), King Lear (Kent), Romeo and Juliet (Friar Lawrence), Private Eyes (Adrian), The Merchant of Venice (Antonio), Henry IV part 1 (King Henry), Virginia (Leonard), The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio), Hamlet (Claudius), Twelfth Night (Toby Belch), and As You Like It (Touchstone). London: Julian Mitchell's Half-Life, Stoppard's Dirty Linen and After Magritte, Bond's The Fool, and Hampton's Total Eclipse. Regional: Hay Fever at B.T.F.; Someone Who'll Watch Over Me at StageWest; and Romeo and Juliet (Prince), Oliver (Mr. Brownlow), The Crucible (Giles Corey), and Death and the King's Horseman at Syracuse Stage.
Dave Demke seventh season (Frederick Arnott in Enchanted April; Slender in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Associate Director of Training). S&Co: King John (Salisbury), The Taming of the Shrew (Vincentio), Comedy of Errors (Dr. Pinch), The Fly-Bottle (Karl Popper), The Scarlet Letter (Rev. Wilson), Among Murderers and Madmen (Narrator), Summer (chorus), Turn of the Screw (director), The Millionairess (Joe/Asst. Director). Stark Raving Theatre: Artistic Director, 1991-2000; Richard III (Richard), The Choice (Ray), The Adding Machine (Mr. Zero), Spike Heels (Edward); director: Detective Story, The Visit, It Had to be You, Brilliant Traces, Bouncers. Regional: A Place with the Pigs at Storefront Theatre (director), A Hatful of Rain at New Rose Theatre (Johnny Pope), Henry IV part 2 at Tygres Heart Shakespeare (Prince John), Noises Off at Mountain Playhouse (Tim Allgood).
Corinna May fifteenth season (Lady Caroline Bramble in Enchanted April; Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor). S&Co: The Mission of Jane, The Promise, Roman Fever, The Turn Of The Screw, An International Episode, Jack and Jill, Love's Labor's Lost, Off the Map, Songs from the Heart, Fortune and Misfortune, House of Mirth, Macbeth, Richard II: Deposed, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Berkeley Square, The Old Maid. National Broadway Tour: The Graduate with Linda Gray/Lorraine Bracco/Morgan Fairchild (Mrs. Braddock, u/s Mrs. Robinson). Regional: Syracuse Stage The Smell of the Kill, Romeo & Juliet; Capitol Rep. The Smell of the Kill; Rep. Theater of St. Louis Misalliance; Studio Arena The Dining Room, Season's Greetings; Virginia Stage Co. Terra Nova, Twelfth Night, Blithe Spirit; Philadelphia Theater Co. Sight Unseen. Film: Rain Without Thunder, A Secret Little War. Television: "Law & Order", "PBS Evening at the Pops". Corinna is also a Designated Linklater voice teacher.
Seth Powers first season In New York, Seth has appeared at the Vortex Theater in Agamemnon (Aegistus/Messenger), the Connelly Theater in The Brothers Karamazov (Dimitri Karamazov), the Dixon Place New Music Theater festival, and in the NYIFF in Love is in the Air (Boffo Mysterioso). S&Co: A Midsummer Night's Dream (ensemble), and the STI production of King John. Seth has also performed internationally & received grants to study in Poland with the Gardzienice Company and to participate in Robert Wilson's Watermill Center on Long Island. While at Columbia University he appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander), Thyestes (Atreus), The Cherry Orchard (Yepikhodov), and Macbeth (Macbeth) at the Riverside Theater. Seth holds an MFA from Columbia University.
Tod Randolph eleventh season (Rose Arnott in Enchanted April, STI Faculty). New York: The Libertine, Theatre Row Theatre; Cymbeline, Holderness Company at The Salon; A Room of One's Own, The Spoken Word Series at The Algonquin. Regional: Beauty Queen of Leenane, Syracuse Stage; New England, Milwaukee Rep; Othello, Portland Stage; The Winter's Tale, Trinity Rep; Emily, Mixed Company. S&Co: Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Duet for One, Virginia, The Winter's Tale, Mrs. Klein, Othello, The Fiery Rain, A Room of One's Own, Merchant of Venice, Love's Labor's Lost, Midsummer Night's Dream, Vita & Virginia.
Diane Prusha twenty-eighth season (Lotty Wilson in Enchanted April). S&Co: King John (Lady Faulconbridge/First Citizen), Lettice and Lovage (Lotte), The Chekhov One-Acts (Vassilya/Mrs. Popov), Roman Fever (Grace), The Other Two (Edith Wharton), The Rembrandt (Mrs. Fontage), An International Episode (Myrtle Lemon/Duchess of Bayswater), The View Beyond (Mrs. Manstey), Summer, The Dilettante, The Aspern Papers, The Legend, Berkeley Square, The Custom of the Country, Fortune and Misfortune, Madame de Treymes, The Pretext, and The Verdict. She also teaches a Shakespeare class for Community Access to the Arts, and teaches an Early Childhood Program at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School.
Rachel Siegel first season (Constanza in Enchanted April). Williamstown Theatre Festival: Threepenny Opera (whore), Under Milkwood (Polly Garter, Rosie Probert); Berkshire Theatre Festival: Zorba!, Miss Julie; Mixed Company: Marcus Is Walking, Callback (wrote). UK: Birmingham Rep: Death of a Salesman; The Royal Court: staged reading of Boy Gets Girl (Harriet); New End Theatre: one-woman show So Sing Already! (wrote and acted). Television: SKY TV: Baddiel's Syndrome; BBC Drama: Whistleblower; Comedy Central: Chappelle's Show (seasons 1 and 3). Film: HBO: Wit; Merchant Ivory: Heights. Rachel trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Box Office, Discounts, Subscriptions, Pricing
The Box Office is open for phone, fax, e-mail and on-line sale reservations only from April 26 - May 14. The Box Office will then be open May 15 - September 3 every day from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm or curtain time of the day's final performance. From September 4 through October 15 the Box Office will be open Wednesday through Sunday from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm or curtain time of the day's final performance. October 16 - October 29, Monday - Sunday from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm or curtain time of the day's final performance. Convenient e-ticketing is available anytime at www.shakespeare.org . To request a brochure (with order form) contact the Box Office at (413) 637-3353 or by fax (413) 637-4274 and by e-mail is boxoffice@shakespeare.org.
*Tickets for all Founders' Performances: $10-$54 with reserved seating.
There are discounts for Berkshire Night (50% off for full-time, year-round Berkshire residents in Founders' for all performances except Friday and Saturday nights), Family & Kids' Matinees (free admission for ages 5-18 in Founders' for all 10:30 am and 3:00 pm performances), Adult Groups ($5 off groups of 15 or more) and School/Camp Groups ($6 off groups of 15 or more), Seniors & Students under 19 ($4 off all shows, except Saturday nights). Also, $10 Rush Tix will once again be made available one hour prior to curtain (if seats are available) for patrons aged 30 and younger at both theatres for all performances.
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