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Serious Play's Endgame Project
For TWO nights only, we are restaging Serious Play's Endgame Project in Northampton!
The performances will take place at STUDIO4, 25 Main Street, Northampton, at 8PM on Friday, March 24 and Saturday, March 25, 2017.
Tickets are $15 for students and seniors and $18 for general admission. Reserve now, as there is limited seating!
Serious Play Theatre Ensemble's ENDGAME PROJECT played to sold out audiences last year here in the Pioneer Valley and many wonderful comments have been sent along about our version of Beckett's classic work. We are remounting the piece and presenting it again in Northampton, for touring in the fall of 2017.
"For the last several years I have been given the gift of not only working with the imaginative, beautiful, often cruel and yet compassionate words of a master playwright, who I have grown to respect and admire, but also with two extraordinary local actors and a remarkable puppeteer who have been willing to turn themselves and their lives, inside out to breathe in the very essence of Beckett, and who have been willing to dedicate long rehearsal hours toward unlocking and embodying the humanity in what he writes.
In Serious Play's ENDGAME PROJECT, there is a desire to prolong the end by talking; repeating the same old jokes and stories, by repeating the same old questions and answers, in order to feel alive in a time of despair This is what resonated immediately with me as director, when rereading Beckett's poetic and vital script over four years ago. I knew I had to collect the right actors and designers to mount this piece. I recognized that Beckett's writing captured something honest and authentic about what it means to be human in an absurd world.
I gathered a group of Serious Play theatre artists, all of whom would work collaboratively to develop Beckett's play, exploring the fusion of acting and puppetry on stage. It fit my vision of the play to imagine the characters Nell & Nagg as puppets. The collaboration - with Ines Zeller and Eric Bass of Sandglass Theater, of Vermont, with physically trained actor Kermit Dunkelberg, Yale Drama School actor Rand Foerster, and puppeteer David Regan, a Sandglass Theater associate - was supported in part by a NET/TEN grant from the Network of Ensemble Theaters. We worked together to experiment with puppets as representative of Hamm's memory world. Interweaving puppetry into the script, opened up new possibilities and interactions, that seem right in line with Beckett's vision." - Sheryl Stoodley, Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Serious Play! Theatre Ensemble
The ensemble includes Kermit Dunkelberg as Clov, Rand Foerster as Hamm, and David Regan the Puppeteer as Nell and Nagg. Lighting by Ezekiel Baskin, costumes by Julia Vincenza Whalen, sound by Robin Doty and directed by Sheryl Stoodley.
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LocationSTUDIO4 (View)
25 Main Street
Northampton, MA 01060
United States
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