Tickets for CORNUCOPIA are available at the door or may be purchased in advance at Agawam Albertson Realty in Greenport.
A great clip about the influence of Shakespeare on our everyday language, from AllinAll Productions.
The final scene for HAMLET gets blocked 6/24/08 with director A.D. Newcomer in the RWStageArt rehearsal barn...it's a good day to die if you're the nobility, especially Claudius (Phil Reichert) and Hamlet (Robert L.S. Wilson). HAMLET ran at the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall from 8.01.08 until 8.10.08 and damn did we have a lot of fun puttin' it on...
Above: Hell Week before HAMLET at the Vail-Leavitt (August 2008). Osric and Hamlet release some tension by practising fencing moves after final dress, while A.D. (the director) goes over backstage details with Bree (stage manager).
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Above: some samples of costumes designed and made by the amazing Joan Chambers of Southold for last year's The Tempest. She has also made sure we've been well gussied up for HAMLET, as a picture of her with the cast shows (taken by Judy Ahrens for the Suffolk Times).
Books
BE GREAT IN ACT AS YOU HAVE BEEN IN THOUGHT. - William Shakespeare (from King John)
Heroes
A.D.'s verse work hero John Barton testing the rhythms of the verse with actor Patrick Stewart, using a passage from The Winter's Tale. A.D. is directing Hamlet and takes a lot of inspiration from Mr. Barton's work and also from her recent training at Shakespeare and Company with the lovely Michael Hammond, the awesome and very funny Linklater-trained David Demke and the inimitable Tina Packer (who worked with John Barton at the Royal Shakespeare Company).
"Possibly we have become romantic and sentimental with Shakespeare; we must wrestle with the thinking more, always looking for the violence and the absurdity." – Cicely Berry
Documenting the creative process - director A.D. Newcomer meets with composer Kevin Twigg to discuss musical cues and elements of the production.
"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music."
- William Shakespeare
Snippet of music from the score of RWStageArt's The Tempest, by George Cork Maul.
About me: East End Shakespeare is a company being developed by A.D. Newcomer. Its mission is to work collaboratively with other local theater companies to bring the works of William Shakespeare alive onstage and to continue to explore approaches to playing Shakespeare with truth, passion and clarity. One of its favorite collaborators is RWStageArt, for whom A.D. recently finished directing HAMLET, which was presented at the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall in early August 2008. Below, see some photos from the show taken by the assistant director/actor Allyson Bunch and our Master of Music for the production, Kevin Twigg. The beautiful costumes were designed and made by Joan Chambers.
A clip from RWStageArt's HAMLET, 8/1-8/10/08, Vail-Leavitt Music Hall...directed by A.D. Newcomer, Costumes by Joan Chambers and Original Score by Kevin Twigg. Click onto blog above to see the full cast & crew list.
Who I'd like to meet: ..
RWStageArt is a small but growing theater company on the North Fork of Long Island. It was co-founded by Robert L.S. Wilson and Rebekah E. White with the mission of providing a highly creative and collaborative atmosphere in which actors, directors, artists and musicians can produce good theater. Past productions have included Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Tempest, and 2008's Hamlet.(Shown above: composer Kevin Twigg looking over the script's music cues; Don Curaba (who played Laertes in RW's HAMLET) and Hamlet and Laertes in a photo from the Southampton Press.
Allyson Bunch (Hamlet's Assistant Director and Player Queen) with Dylan Martinsen, the back of composer George Cork Maul's head, and the unmistakable voice of Christopher Linn as Prospero in RWStageArt's 2007 production of William Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST.
REHEARSING THE FENCING MATCH for Hamlet with Fight Director Alan Stewart
Thank you for the add. I hope you get the chance to read my book as it really is turning people on to the Bard and learning something special about Shakespeare.
RWStageArt welcomes our newest cast members - Ryan Pendzick as Rosencrantz, J.P. Groeninger as Guildenstern and Mackenzie Renshaw as young Lord Voltemand. We're fully cast!
It seems like we were just where "the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs" and now here we are at the court of Elsinore where "something is rotten in the state of Denmark." I thought Prospero said last year during The Tempest epilogue that we were all going back to Milan but I guess if we have to stop in Denmark, we might as well kick some ass. HAMLET here we go...
So far, it's a talented bunch, we're very lucky to have Joan and Kevin on the creative team, we've got Tom Micari getting ready to build some sets, and a great Fight Director in Alan Stewart. We're feeling good about our first week of rehearsals but we wonder if poor Kevin Monsell is ever going to get a role in our plays where he DOESN'T have to fall asleep on stage...
Here's the cast so far:
ALLYSON BUNCH -Player Queen/Attendant 1 SUSAN CINCOTTA - Queen Gertrude DON CURABA - Laertes MIKE DELANEY - Horatio JERE JACOB - Clown (the Gravedigger)/ Player Lucianus MEL MENDELSSOHN - Polonius KEVIN MONSELL - Player King/ Marcellus/ Priest JAMES PRITCHARD - Fransisco/Reynaldo/Captain PHILIP REICHERT - King Claudius STEPHAN SCHECK - Fortinbras ALAN STEWART - The Ghost ED WEISS - Barnardo/English Ambassador REBEKAH WHITE - Ophelia ROBERT WILSON - Hamlet BRIA YAZIC - Osric / Attendant 2
Still seeking Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Cornelius/Voltemand (two lords we've melded into one)
Thanks for the add!!!!!!! Let us know what you think of the music, and tell your friends!!!! You can also check out our first album, 'Till the Cows Come Home on ITunes!! We hope to see you at a show!! MFB
