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Written by Jill Walsh
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Tuesday, 11 June 2002 18:00 |
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Richmond Hill Barn Theatre in Geneseo is like something from an actor’s dream. With “theatre-in-the-round” seating, high ceilings for easy lighting capability, entryways from four sides, and an intimate acting space, one would think any play could succeed with these standards. Even a weak performance can be positively impacted by quality set pieces and a connection with audience members.
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Written by Jill Walsh
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Tuesday, 28 May 2002 18:00 |
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Compared to Chicago or even to Iowa City, the Quad Cities’ contemporary-theatre base is practically nonexistent. But that could change with the help of one of the area’s newest drama groups. With only two staged plays under its belt, the New Ground Theatre Company is already living up to its name.
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Written by Jill Walsh
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Tuesday, 21 May 2002 18:00 |
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It’s not often that a main character dies more than five times during the course of a story. Or that a young man proposes to an 80-year-old woman. But Harold & Maude at Playcrafters Barn Theatre combines this unusual story with exceptional acting and achieves two hours of genuine laughter, and an appreciation for life and art. Colin Higgins’ play is a lighthearted piece in which the lead characters come to terms with death and love.
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Written by Joy Thompson
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Tuesday, 05 February 2002 18:00 |
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The three sisters who are the central characters of Shelaugh Stephenson’s The Memory of Water at first appear to having nothing in common except their family ties. The caustic dialogue reveals unresolved conflicts that go back to childhood and the different roles each woman has pursued in life and love. But the dialogue also contains much humor and insight that finally leads to acceptance.
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Written by Joy Thompson
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Tuesday, 20 November 2001 18:00 |
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Spinning into Butter, Riverside Theatre’s third production in its 21st season, is a sometimes-humorous look at very serious subjects: political correctness and racial politics in the new millennium. The work and the production have local roots. The play was written by Rebecca Gilman, who has an MFA from the University of Iowa and is an acquaintance of Ron Clark and Jody Hovland, co-artistic directors at Riverside. (Time magazine hailed Gilman as “an important new theatrical voice.”) And director Bruce Levitt is a former University of Iowa faculty member and was director of the MFA. actor-training program at the school from 1977 to 1980.
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