Production Company: Drak Theatre
Premiered: March 16. 2004
Writer: William Shakespeare
Directors: Jiri Vysohlid and Vaclav Poul
Puppet Hamlet from the 2004 production of Hamlet at the Drak Theatre
http://www.draktheatre.cz/nahled.php?fid=54&gid=5
The use of puppets also always a dark and serious play to become not as dark and serious.
Production Company: Jezek and Cizek theatre group
Performance Dates: Runs until August 29, 2007 (couldn't find opening)
Key Artisits: Homeless
"One of our fundamental ideas is combining different worlds, and different circles of people. For example, we have homeless people working with both professional artists and amateur artists in an auditorium with an underground rock band. And together it works."
This production is unconventional because it not only uses professional actors it also takes people off the streets and uses them in the production too. But not just anyone off the street, they take the homeless or people that have been homeless. I thought this was cool because it gives them an opportunity.
Steel Magnolias
Production Company: Phamaly
Performance Dates:
Preview: Fri January 9, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Opening Night: Sat January 10, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday: Sun January 11, 2009, 2 p.m.
Friday: Fri January 16, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday: Sat January 17, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday - ASL, AD & Talk Back: Sun January 18, 2009, 2 p.m.
Thursday: Thu January 22, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Friday: Fri January 23, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday: Sat January 24, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday: Sun January 25, 2009, 2 p.m.
Thursday: Thu January 29, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Friday: Fri January 30, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Closing Night: Sat January 31, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Director: Nick Sugar
Playwright: Robert Harling
The cast of the Physically Handicapped Actors & Musical Artists League's "Steel Magnolias" at the Aurora Fox. (Michael Ensminger)Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/theater/ci_11473687#ixzz0g01Nt1kc
This production of Steel Magnolias is unconventional because the entire cast is made up of handicapped individuals. The company itself is made for those who have a disability and want to be in theatre because there aren’t many choices out there. It is unconventional because there usually is not physically handicapped people who are the actors.
Moliere's The Misanthrope
Mauckingbird Theatre Company
Directed: Peter Reynolds
Starring: Dito van Reigersberg as Alceste
Performace Dates: January 10 - February 2, 2008
"Our aim is to illuminate Moliere's text in a new way by transporting the artifice inherent in the French court to an equally pretentious world where gay men call all the shots," says director Reynolds. http://www.theatrealliance.org/news/2007/1231.html
This production of Moliere's The Misanthrope is unconventional because its an all male cast. The men are playing the female parts as well as the male parts. In this day and age females are allowed on stage and we don’t usually resort to the old times of the all male cast, when females were not allowed on stage.
Pippin
Production Company: Deaf West, Center Theatre Group
Performace Dates: January 15 - March 15, 2009
Center Theatre Group—Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director; Charles Dillingham, Managing Director; Gordon Davidson, Founding Artistic Director—and Deaf West Theatre—Ed Waterstreet, Artistic Director/CEO
Snap shot of actors from Pippin, the Musical
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/la/la287.html
This production on Pippin is considered unconventional because some of the cast if deaf. At parts they use sign language to communicate. With Pippin being a musical, the cast makes it to where audience members who also could be deaf fully enjoy the show.
