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Oleanna

Oleanna

Walnut Street Theater

Walnut Street Theater

Oleanna #MeToo movement

Oleanna #MeToo movement

Charllote's Web Arden Theatre

Charllote's Web Arden Theatre

Anaya Strutz as Charlotte

Anaya Strutz as Charlotte

Arden's Children Theatre

Arden's Children Theatre

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie Bucket

Charlie Bucket

Charlie's Grandfather and aunts

Charlie's Grandfather and aunts

Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory

Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

opening scene: pirates, Hook, and peter pan

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

J.M Barrie playing with Llewellyn Davies sons

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

In London J.M Barrie writes the story of Peter Pan

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

"Welcome to London"

Broadway: Finding never land

Broadway: Finding never land

romance between J.M Barrie and Miss Llewellyn Davies

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Imagination

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Theater needs to sell tickets! Charles Frohman needs a new Hit Musical!

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

dinner party

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Sylvia Llewelyn Davies

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

"When Your Feet Don't Touch the Floor"

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Hook

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Sureal Nightmare- Time

Broadway: Finding Neverland

Broadway: Finding Neverland

flying

HOME by Geoff Sobelle

HOME by Geoff Sobelle

The play starts with stage hands moving a light, and then we find out that it is Geoff Sobelle

Building the set on stage

Building the set on stage

In real time we watch a house being built, framed, and lived in.

stapling plastic to the frame

stapling plastic to the frame

This was an experience that sticks with you after you leave the theater. The stage changes dramatically from the dark bare stage with only a bed and a door to a whole two story house.

Music by Elvis Perkins

Music by Elvis Perkins

The musical becomes a dance as the construction workers and newly weds and other family members enter their newly built home.

magic tricks

magic tricks

The play begins with magic tricks that has people appear and disappear. The couple are having trouble sleeping together, but life goes on and the magical acts allude to the more depressing facts of life.

Construction workers

Construction workers

The rooms slowly build with the kitchen, bedrooms, dining, and bathroom.

Stairs and constant flow of people

Stairs and constant flow of people

The stairs create this movement that is liek an escalator. The repetition of people marching up and down carrying on with the dancing moving in theme of a new home.

Marital problems

Marital problems

Geoff Sobelle's Home shows drama and laughter that is pantomimed.

The bathroom was the best part

The bathroom was the best part

the bathroom was full of naked bodies. They magically appeared from behind the shower curtain.

busy people

busy people

The day begins and the sun rises, the grandmother has her coffee, and the onslaught of activities calls for different wardrobes. The pace picks up and the carthartic episode is funny and a mimetic reality that is over whelming.

Notes: human extinction #5

Notes: human extinction #5

The theater is dark and a spot light scans the theater for any forms of life.

overture rotating spot light

overture rotating spot light

A Period Of Inanimate Existence

The orchestra

The orchestra

The sun and tentacles of an extra terrestrial being

A period of Inanimate Existence

A period of Inanimate Existence

People cross the stage as a a cellist sings a hopeful chorus begins to take over until doom rains in.

wrestlers

wrestlers

pedestrians

pedestrians

children

children

gymnastics

gymnastics

Miss Julia by Strindberg

Miss Julia by Strindberg

Strindberg

Strindberg

Rich People Need It, Poor People Have It, and If You Eat It You Die

Bainbridge green

Bainbridge green

This is a island that for a short while becomes a fantastic mirror reflecting light and sharp sounds of another world. The parking signs, parking meters, and the sound of people walking by does not take away from the mystery of story telling.

Love

Love

The class struggle between Miss Julia and Jean her servant have a relationship, and the force Rebecca O'Hanlon-Rodriguez is comparably harsh to her exotic mother played Kelly McAnally.

Jean played by Michael Pliskin

Jean played by Michael Pliskin

Miss Julia demands Jeans love

Miss Julia demands Jeans love

Jean answers that he must give her his service but not his love.

Their bodies exhausted laid out

Their bodies exhausted laid out

The dirt is a symbol of the class discrepancy, and how people should be treated is mistaken for personal possessions.

Nailed to a cross sex position 101

Nailed to a cross sex position 101

I imagine the guys that want to be dominated. I can see the guilt in Burns face, and a pleasurable fantasy somewhere in between fiction and memoir.

Corrina Burns presents Bind

Corrina Burns presents Bind

In a three course theater meal at the Drake alongside Broderick Jones and Bob Stineman. First, The Turn of the Screw with little vision into the dark novella by Henry James. The second act is ridiculous cartoon that breaks the tension. And Lastly, Corrina Burns comes out after performing as the prude governess in the Turn of the Screw, and tells a hellish story of the sex industry in Quacker Old City Philadelphia.

Bind

Bind

The waving hands in this performance distract us from the pornographic ideas, or maybe they give us the most aspects of the fleshy situations.

Ubu and Faust

Ubu and Faust

Fringe Festival 2017

Puppet show by Broderick Jones

Puppet show by Broderick Jones

British side entertainment is hilariously difficult to stand. It is obscene and before the puppet show begins the puppeteer explains how he has been drinking whiskey all night to prepare.

A menacing grin

A menacing grin

The puppets are for the most part focusing our attention on the fact that this is about something real.

Faust makes a pact with the Devil

Faust makes a pact with the Devil

The police are involved and the flying man bursts into flames and ends with the audience's own sound effect (spontaneous combustion)

Ubu and Faust combined

Ubu and Faust combined

The style of Ubu and the ill fated Faust is a combination that is artistic genius. The drawings for this show were extremely easy considering the rich material I was working with.

The Turn of The Screw

The Turn of The Screw

Adaptation of Henry James novel

Turn of the Screw

Turn of the Screw

The set is covered in shadow, and highlights the maneuver of the two person play around a stair and bannister platform.

The governess and sexual innuendo

The governess and sexual innuendo

The man and woman in this victorian tale revolving around children and a mother figure is a complex psychological thriller.

The butler

The butler

The hawks position above the stage, and the quick turn of a slight expression shaded with disgust becomes alarmingly awkward. I was paying close attention to this person with multiple personalities, and the adaptation of the novel shares a glimpse into Henry James characterization.

Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery

Curio Theatre

Peaseblossom the neglected fairy

Peaseblossom the neglected fairy

Adapted from Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

We gather around Evans Obelisk

We gather around Evans Obelisk

The fat fisherman like rubberneck Peaseblossom, played by Brian McCann, comes from behind the audience.

Peaseblossom fairy

Peaseblossom fairy

Electric pink hair, dreams and witnesses the love potion on Bottom and Helena.

Audience participation

Audience participation

Oberon is played by an audience member and Titania speak of love and marriage, which Peaseblossom makes a puking motion toward.

Peaseblossom comedy

Peaseblossom comedy

Love is sickening, and this obtrusive fairy makes a light hearted play within a play for Oberon and Titania's wedding.

The expressions

The expressions

Darkness, and excitement showed how much character work can demand from a person.

Peaseblossom is a children's story

Peaseblossom is a children's story

story telling using musical talents by Paul Kuhn, playing the saxophone, guitar, and keyboard. The sound of certain theme songs drastically changed the mood.

Marx in Soho

Marx in Soho

Iron Age Theatre

Marx played by Bob Weick

Marx played by Bob Weick

He comes into this basement lit with a strong fluorescent bulb. Marx in Soho tells the story of a carefully articulated political view. It is interesting to compare Marx to his contemporaries.

Drunker darker emotional Marx

Drunker darker emotional Marx

His wife encourages Marx to write. His daughter fights him on his views. The drunker he gets the brighter the light on the working class becomes.

Marx in Soho is a reenactment

Marx in Soho is a reenactment

Reenacting the socialist views against the establishment.

Marx, Bakunin, and Peepers

Marx, Bakunin, and Peepers

The portrait of social awareness is a beautiful array of characters. Marx for one seems to be a writer more than an activist like his other contemporaries. When he says, "Marx is not a Marxist," I think this is what Weick means.

Chris Davis and Mary Tuomamen

Chris Davis and Mary Tuomamen

The Alchemists

The Alchemists

Best friends love affair

Best friends love affair

Long distance closeness. Through messages over time two people stay connected.

Story telling imaginative acting

Story telling imaginative acting

The talent of a great actor is the ability to take a coupe like a car ride or traveling and make it interesting and unique to that experience.

Miming

Miming

Davis goes to Mexico and Tuomamen goes to London.

The Alchemists

The Alchemists

A friendship turns to gold.

Mary Tuomamen

Mary Tuomamen

This lasting image of a fleeting moment in the middle of One Shot Coffee House is like a movie giving you closure.

Notes: The Alchemists

Notes: The Alchemists

Fringe Festival 2017

A bird devours a worm

A bird devours a worm

The imagery depicted by acting challenges the viewer to recreate a clear idea of what is going on.

ITS SNOWING!

ITS SNOWING!

This natural phenomenon happens every year in the northeast US. Some how it always seems to shock people.

Trading places

Trading places

Tuomamen and Davis circle the living room environment at One Shot Coffee. The shelves are lined with books and trinkets that tell the story of life.

A good friend has your back

A good friend has your back

The dance that takes place is physical theater. Experiencing the bear of life can put us in unusual positions.

Die Cast

Die Cast

Pericles by William Shakespeare

Pericles fate

Pericles fate

The cast dances in an ensemble of zombies. Sex and power is demonstrating a netherworld.

Die Cast production of Pericles

Die Cast production of Pericles

Hannah Van Sciver lays across the judges' bench

Pericles Fringe Festival 2017

Pericles Fringe Festival 2017

Pericles reads a scroll the rest of the cast mimics a person out of breath, and an ecstasy.

Philadelphia Artist Collective

Philadelphia Artist Collective

Iphigenia at Taurus

Argamemnon

Argamemnon

Nathan Foley

Clytemnestra

Clytemnestra

Tai Verley

Achilles and Iphigenia

Achilles and Iphigenia

Women that cause men to go to war in Greek mythology hints at epic anxiety. PAC questions our mode of thought. Iphigenia played by Becca Khalil and Achilles played by Gregory Isaac

Clytemnestra screams

Clytemnestra screams

LifeLines

LifeLines

Dark story about women over coming relationships and hard times.

Tangle Movement arts

Tangle Movement arts

dancing in the air suspended on bars, hoops, and silk.

LifeLines

LifeLines

Narrative dance on ground and in the air did not make a difference. The artists showed an imaginative character of place.

LifeLines

LifeLines

Meredith Rosenthal

LifeLines

LifeLines

Music and dance beautiful orchestration, composition, and gesture.

Annie Wilson

Annie Wilson

this kind of artist's performance makes me want to "get up"

Annie Wilson

Annie Wilson

the ironic moment when an Ice skating accident is made into a hysterical public event.

At Home With the Humorless Bastard

At Home With the Humorless Bastard

Bath tub

At Home with the Humorless Bastard

At Home with the Humorless Bastard

Experimental dance, story telling, and contemporary art performance

Annie Wilson

Annie Wilson

plain and simple, truthfuly, nudity shows the naked truth.

Annie Wilson

Annie Wilson

lounging in a tub of sparkly water.

Annie Wilson's fairytale story

Annie Wilson's fairytale story

At the heart of every dance is an emotional response

Annie Wilson

Annie Wilson

"Is this a social experiment or a dance performance"

At Home with the Humorless Bastard

At Home with the Humorless Bastard

The spiritual and ritual of dance is a colorful reverberation.

At Home with the Humorless Bastard

At Home with the Humorless Bastard

By Annie Wilson

At Home with the Humorless Bastard

At Home with the Humorless Bastard

by Annie Wilson

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

"Fuck off Bitch" Brecht's Marxist theory involves the audience questioning the authors of politics, Marxism, and Communism. He was politically active and encouraged art for improving the worlds views.

Mother Courage and her Children

Mother Courage and her Children

Janis Dardaris

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

A big black "x" means death

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

The cook and Mother Courage, Daniel Miller as one Mother Courage's sons, Eilif, joins the army

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Daniel Miller

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Daniel Miller and Janis Dardaris

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Yvette: Satire on sex, alcohol, and war

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Forrest McClendon as the Cook

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Swiss Cheese is dead "11 bullets"

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Death scene

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Gregory Isaac and Janis Dardaris

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

"SELL, SELL, SELL"

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Mother Courage and Kattrin pull the caravan

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Sexy time with the cook and Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Yvette, the Cook, and Eifl

Mother Courage

Mother Courage

Forrest McClendon gives a show all of his own - that is epic theatre

Mother Couage

Mother Couage

closing scene- Kattrin pounding on a drum, she is shot down, and the peasants pray that she will stop

Giargiari Competition 2016

Giargiari Competition 2016

Anthony Whitson-Martini, Mathew White, and Meryl Dominguez

Piotr Buszewski and Alejandra Gomez

Piotr Buszewski and Alejandra Gomez

Every performance was different, and it was an exciting chance for me to see a variety of opera singers.

JoAna Rusche

JoAna Rusche

they walked onto the stage with style.

Daniel Noyola

Daniel Noyola

The drama of the piece was like a fire in the performers stomach.

Nathan Milholin, Timothy Renner...

Nathan Milholin, Timothy Renner...

and Mackenzie Gotcher ended the first half and I was fascinated by the many characters that got up on stage.

Alexandra Nowakowski

Alexandra Nowakowski

It was a mesh of gestures and postures that spoke elegance to me.

Daniel Noyola, Jonas Hacker

Daniel Noyola, Jonas Hacker

and Alasdair Kent

Jorge Espino

Jorge Espino

It was amazing how personal their time with us was.

Jared Bybee and Karen Barraza

Jared Bybee and Karen Barraza

All I could remember was Figaro, Figaro, Figaro! The drama in Karen Barraza's performance left me wanting more.

Hannah Ludwig

Hannah Ludwig

My favorite dress, but also an intensity that demanded the stage.

Anthony Schneider

Anthony Schneider

The closing act was bigger and more powerful than the rest. This bass singer seemed larger than life.

Donte's Inferno

Donte's Inferno

Traveling across the Styx

Tale of Two Cities: Blood for Blood

Tale of Two Cities: Blood for Blood

Chung Ying Theater Company, Red Shift Productions and Seabright Productions

Donte's Inferno

Donte's Inferno

projection on ceiling(closing act)

Donte's Inferno

Donte's Inferno

Franchesca

Donte's Inferno

Donte's Inferno

Opening act Virgil leading Donte into the Underworld

Measure_For_Measure

Measure_For_Measure

Escalus- Lurii Rumiantcev

Measure_For_Measure

Measure_For_Measure

Opening act

Measure_For_Measure

Measure_For_Measure

praying

Measure_For_Measure

Measure_For_Measure

rape scene

Measure_For_Measure

Measure_For_Measure

Jane Eyre An Autobiography

Jane Eyre An Autobiography

Jane Eyre An Autobiography

Jane Eyre An Autobiography

Diary of a Madman

Diary of a Madman

Nikolai Gogol

Diary of a Madman

Diary of a Madman

Nikolai Gogol

Iphigenia in Tauris

Iphigenia in Tauris

classical tragedy

Iphigenia in Tauris

Iphigenia in Tauris

classical tragedy

Iphigenia in Tauris

Iphigenia in Tauris

classical tragedy

Empire Builders

Empire Builders

absurdist

Empire Builders

Empire Builders

absurdist

Empire Builders

Empire Builders

absurdist

Latin Bridge

Latin Bridge

Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his Wife Sophie assasination

I'M Doing This For You

I'M Doing This For You

She cant accept her relationship is over

I'm Doing This For You

I'm Doing This For You

"I will fit into that shape." -Haley Mcgee

I'm Doing This For You

I'm Doing This For You

"I will fit into that shape" -Haley Mcgee

Grumbles Sex Clown Saves the World

Grumbles Sex Clown Saves the World

Before the music starts

Grumbles Sex Clown Saves the World

Grumbles Sex Clown Saves the World

Grumbles Sex Clown Saves the World7

Grumbles Sex Clown Saves the World7

Opening act

Grumbles Sex Clown Saves the World

Grumbles Sex Clown Saves the World

Closing act (lip singing)

Grumbles Sex Clown Saves the World

Grumbles Sex Clown Saves the World

Fire cracker in her ass

Infinity Pool

Infinity Pool

Modern interpretation of Madame Bovary

Infinity Pool

Infinity Pool

Modern interpretation of Madame Bovary 2

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

Beautiful women are decieving

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

"No body goes to the movies every night"

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

opening scene (after Laura comes out of the couch... lol)

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams is especially diffucult to draw because of how dark his plays are set.

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

Laura has a little deformity; she is not crippled

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

Tom and Laura

Bacchus by Euripides

Bacchus by Euripides

Bacchus by Euripedes II

Bacchus by Euripedes II

Happy days by Samuel Beckett

Happy days by Samuel Beckett

Happy Days by Samuel Beckett II

Happy Days by Samuel Beckett II

plough_and_stars

plough_and_stars

plough_and_stars II

plough_and_stars II

plough_and_stars III

plough_and_stars III

plough_and_stars IIII

plough_and_stars IIII

Achilles I

Achilles I

Achilles II

Achilles II

Achilles III

Achilles III

pafa

pafa

Antigone I

Antigone I

Antigone II

Antigone II

Othelo_bed

Othelo_bed

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Hamlet

Hamlet

Love_Labor_Lost

Love_Labor_Lost

love_labor_lost(sketch)

love_labor_lost(sketch)

Henry_IV

Henry_IV

Shakespeare_in_the_Park

Shakespeare_in_the_Park

mid_summer_nights_dream

mid_summer_nights_dream

King_Lear

King_Lear

Wizard of Oz

Wizard of Oz

Shakespeare_Cymbaline

Shakespeare_Cymbaline

existentialist play

existentialist play

Rosa danst Rosa 1

Rosa danst Rosa 1

The Italian Girl in Algeirs

The Italian Girl in Algeirs

Dirty_Harry

Dirty_Harry

Movie illustration

Rosas danst Rosas 2

Rosas danst Rosas 2

Irish Riverdance illustration

Irish Riverdance illustration

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