What's with all of these dragons and dungeons? Our upcoming production of She Kills Monsters delves into the world of tabletop role-playing games. If you've never had an encounter with RPGs before, read on!
We sat down earlier this week with Adrienne Dandy, costumer extraordinaire, to talk about the costumes in The Merchant of Venice: the vision, the inspiration, and the challenges.
As Jonathan mentioned in his last post, The Merchant of Venice was a collaboration with local jazz musician Tom Nagy. Tom wrote a score to accompany the production; here he is talking about the music and the process of putting it all together.
Our production of The Merchant of Venice makes some bold choices in its setting (the Jazz Age), its conclusion (immediately following the trial), and its costuming (with most of the characters en masque). Director Jonathan Dietrich has shared some of his thoughts behind those choices with us.
In this dark comedy, four sisters who are as different as the cities they're named after are reunited after the death of their mother, only to find out that the circumstances of her death are not what they seem and may be intolerable. Old wounds are reopened and the sisters reach a crisis point as they must decide if they can stand together, knowing that the alternative is to fall apart completely.
