(Post written Aug. 6, 2013, but published Jan 6, 2015) Here’s a change of pace from the comedy plays. ambient forest prettiness and community community work. Actor Josh Hitchens excels at one-man performances; his one-man Dracula is, by all accounts, astounding. In 2013 he worked up a piece from the… Continue reading
(Entry updated June 2013, because the video was made public on YouTube). Sometimes video projects don’t start out as public projects. One example is Alp d’Huez, a wonderful play by John Rosenberg. In November 2012, I was asked by Jennifer Summerfield, who was one of the two leads, and her… Continue reading
This past March and April, I shot another play at Curio Theatre. The play was Madville, by Paul Kuhn, and I wanted to do something really decent for the play because Paul is one of the most decent guys I know. Continue reading
Let’s get one thing settled: I am not a conservative nor a Republican. Many of the opinions presented in the following videos do not reflect my own. I volunteered for this project mainly because it seemed like a good, provocative idea– to offset the generally liberal-left theater community with plays… Continue reading
So what went into this? Last month, I did one for Eurydice that didn’t really work: I thought it’d be fun to make it look like a trailer for an old film noir, so I shot it at 24 frames a second for that “film look” and converted it to black… Continue reading
This was the first promo I did for Curio. The coverage of Twelfth Night had worked out pretty well, considering what a seat-of-the-pants thing it was, and doing this promo was the first workout I had with the new Panasonic hi-def camera. Oleanna is a very intense play, and it practically… Continue reading
This wasn’t as much of a quickie as the other promos. Y’see, this adaptation of the Iliad is a play that Curio actually owns, so this promo’s intended to sell the play to high schools and other parties that might want to stage it, or bring the Curio people in to perform… Continue reading
The story on this one is… well, it was one of those situations where we just grabbed the actors before they rehearsed, sat’em down, interrogated them, and distilled down stuff that we hope is amusing. At this stage, the rehearsals had just started, the costumes were still being made, and the… Continue reading
Sarah Ruhl’s play Eurydice is a play that set designers love: it gives them a chance to depict an underworld that can be as whimsical, as abstract, or as menacing as they want. It’s also a lovely play, written with genuine poetry, about a father’s love for his daughter, and… Continue reading
Here is Curio Theater’s 2010 production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. At this point, the only thing I had to work with was a Sony TRV700, a standard-def video camera. I’d gotten good results out of it for my little personal video Clark Park, June 2007, and I guess that impressed Kyle Cassidy… Continue reading