FILM & TELEVISION
The Ghost Sonata Johanssen PBS
Golden Gate Mover MGM/American Playhouse Theater
The Saints Speak St. John Eudes EWTN/Arcadia Films
As The World Turns DJ Proctor and Gamble CBS
Saturday Night Live Freddie Boy Band SNL Studios NBC
Last Performance Tom Edwin Briennen Productions
M.D. Geist II Major U.S. Manga
Genocyber Captain U.S. Manga
Garzey’s Wing Domon Anime 18
NEW YORK THEATER
Taming of The Shrew Hortensio Pulse Ensemble Theater NY
As You Like It Oliver Pulse Ensemble Theater NY
A Day In The Crib Seth Ramos Felix Rojas Projects
My Friend The Tree The Tree Flamboyan Theater Clemente Center
Animal Kingdom The Man New York International Fringe Festival
The Good Time Boys Butch Wings Theatre, NY.
A Subway Story The Tourist Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater
As You Like It Rosalind Expanded Arts
Importance Of Being Earnest Algernon Impact Theater
REGIONAL THEATER
The Boor Smirnov Williamstown Theater Festival, MA.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Irwin/Policeman Black Repertory Group, Berkeley, Ca.
Macbeth Malcolm Westco Productions, White Plains, NY
Henry IV Lord Williamstown Theater Festival, MA.
Measure for Measure Elbow San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
Midsummer Night’s Dream Lysander San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
Macbeth Siward/Caithness Potrero Stage, SF,
The Fall of The House of Usher Roderick Chamber Theater, Boston, Nat. Tour
The Most Dangerous Game Zaroff Chamber Theater, Boston, Nat.Tour
The Ransom of Red Chief Sam Chamber Theater Boston, Nat Tour
The Zoo Story Jerry Giessen Keller Theater, Germany
The Glass Menagerie Tom Giessen Keller Theater, Germany
The Rainbow Boy Rainbow Boy Northampton Center for The Arts, Ma.
Hedda Gabler Judge Brack Leslie Butterworth Theater,MA
The Miss Firecracker Contest Delmount Leslie Butterworth Theater, MA
Lysistrata Cinesias Leslie Butterworth Theater, MA
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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
New York. The Importance of Being Earnest , is the marvelously witty story of John Worthing and his friend Algernon Moncrieff, who both take on the name Ernest in order to win the hearts of their respective loves, Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, two young ladies who are certain they could never be happy married to a man who was named something other than Ernest.
Directed by J. Brandon Hill, the piece moved swiftly and stylishly. The performances were generally good, with Vincent Bagnall standing out as an appropriately charming and slippery Algernon. Sharon Becker was good as a coquettish Gwendolen. Steve Hasley and Hal Smith-Reynolds fared well as John Worthing and The Rev. Canon Chasuble, respectively.
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The Zoo Story Cheery Game of Confusion Ends in Deadly Earnestness
Giessen, Germany. The Zoo Story by Edward Albee. The one-act play of the Virginia Wolf-author Albee (directed by Jeff Melcher) ended with an unexpected turn of events.
In “The Zoo Story,” two men, who under normal conditions, have nothing to say to each other, meet accidentally. The younger man (called Jerry) insists that the other be his listener and begins talking like a waterfall. This Jerry, performed magnificently by Vincent Bagnall, floods his victim with banalities, neurotic madness and helpless brooding over God and the world. He entices, irritates and provokes him up to a fight that results in his own murder. His wish was fulfilled, an upright man of honour has done him the favour of stabbing him.
The Keller Theater has broadened its repertoire with these two surrealistic plays and proven that not only comedies have “entertainment value.” Ute S. Lahaie, Giessener Anzeiger.
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The Glass Menagerie American Dream Created From Fragile Glass
Giessen Germany William’s Glass Menagerie in The Keller Theater. (Director Scot Lahaie) “When the silent Laura stands behind her glass at the end of a two-and-a-half-hour drama that ends with the blowing out of her candles, we are easily able to see the symbolic hand of Tennessee Williams.
“The characters include the theatrically excited mother who lives within her lingering memories and treats her son Tom like a child. The daughter Laura restrained by limping, keeps herself behind her glass menagerie. The son Tom who looks for adventure in the cinema and finally the visitor, by whom a Deus ex-machina function is expected, visits Laura only to disappoint her.
“Williams divides his style with a cinematic technique whereby the son Tom plays the narrator by stepping out of the scenes on a regular basis. The light direction was not very strong and did not succeed in displaying the grim view of the family. The overall direction by Lahaie did convey the tensions in the family well.
“Also resembling the actors’ performances is this touching interpretation. The eccentric and unpredictable mother is not only living desperately in the past, but quite practically thinking rationally only if it concerns her daughter’s happiness. Denise Moyle plays the “speech-blessed” woman of the American South with a comic and tragic style. Fragile like the figures of her fantasy world, Laura, played by Vicki Smith, limps frequently with jerky Hands. The unsteady view adds up to an intensive representation. This Intensity and fragility communicate themselves to the public particularly strongly, especially when the gentleman caller throws a light into the dim situation. Tracy Jacobsen plays the part of the successful and smart American boy with completeness. Vincent Bagnall, as the son Tom and narrator, has the most impressionable scenes in the family. This is a highly impressive production with strong character work.” Ute S. Lahaie, Giessener Anzeiger.
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