It’s also a way for audiences to have a different theatrical experience too, since while theater students generally have done one-acts, such shows aren’t widely produced in other venues.Īnd the fact that the Croswell is doing so excites Letherer.
“There’s an opportunity to develop your character.” “This is a nice chance for these actors to really develop something,” Letherer said. And the nature of one-acts as opposed to larger productions means the actors get an experience they might never have had otherwise.Īfter all, it’s not every day that an actor does a show with only one other performer, or at most only three or four other people. Quite a few of the performers in the three plays are new to the Croswell, or at least to the acting side of the Croswell. It’s very ‘niche’ Hollywood that then talks about how ridiculous Hollywood is, and it’s just ridiculously funny.” And ‘Hidden in this Picture’ is very Aaron Sorkin. “‘The Elevator’ is a really nice, thoughtful piece. “‘The Actor’s Nightmare’ is a comedy, but it has classic elements from Shakespeare and Noel Coward and Beckett,” she said.
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She thinks that putting these three particular plays together creates a good mix because it combines an especially iconic one-act, something brand-new by a Michigan playwright, and a piece by one of the TV world’s wittiest writers. “There are a lot of great one-acts,” Jen Letherer, the Croswell’s production manager, said.
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Producing a series of one-acts gives the Croswell the opportunity to bring something different to its stage. Peter Crist directs this play, which features Conner Raymond and Chris Sancho, both of Adrian Cassie Kirchmeier of Jackson and Andrew Packard of Holland, Ohio. “The Actor’s Nightmare,” one of the most familiar and often-produced one-acts, is a comedy focusing on a man who finds himself, inexplicably, backstage at a theater, and gets put onstage without knowing what he’s doing there or even what play is being produced.Ĭonner Raymond, Andrew Packard and Cassie Kirchmeier portray members of a film crew whose spectacular shot is being interrupted by a group of cows in a scene from "Hidden in this Picture," a short play by Aaron Sorkin that's part of the Croswell Opera House's "Weekend of One-Acts." All three plays are included in each performance. The three short plays, which are performed back to back with one intermission in a production lasting just less than two hours total, are Christopher Durang’s “The Actor’s Nightmare,” “The Elevator: Sharing With Strangers” by Detroit-area actress/director/writer Kryssy Becker, and “Hidden in this Picture” by Aaron Sorkin, who’s perhaps best-known for writing the TV shows “The West Wing,” “The Newsroom,” and “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.” Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and may be ordered by calling 51 or online at. The “Weekend of One-Acts” shows take place at 7:30 p.m. But this weekend, area theater lovers get the opportunity to see three such works staged by the Croswell Opera House. ADRIAN - In large part, the world of one-act plays is often the purview of college and university theater departments.
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