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Mid-week update

Mikey Reiach’s production workshops began Monday night at the National Dance School. I (Nicolette) caught the end of the workshop, and I can tell you that those people who are enrolled in it are getting great exposure to what it takes to create live theatre.
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And meantime, Craig Pinder’s rehearsals for The Tempest are [...]

Rehearsals begin!

The Tempest

As noted before, The Tempest has been cast. And here’s the cast:

Prospero – Craig Pinder
Ariel – Dana Ferguson
Caliban – Kennedy Storr
Miranda – Nicole Fair Bhatti
Ferdinand – Gene (Lucas) Cage
Gonzalo – Gordon Mills
Michaela Alonso – Jane Poveromo
Sebastian – Mik Bancroft
Antonio – David Jonathan Burrows
Stephano – Anthony K. T. Roberts
Trinculo – Mark Redgrave
Adrian – Roger Gibson
The Captain [...]

Tempest Casting Done!

Auditions were held for men today, and the missing parts have been cast. Thanks to all who came out and auditioned — and also to all who told us they were willing to be put to work in different ways. Have no fear. We’ll be putting you to work!

The Tempest – Second Casting Call

We’re still looking for a few good men.
All the female parts have been cast, but we’re still looking for some men for The Tempest. We’ll be auditioning at the Hub, Bay and Colebrooke, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday August 8th, 2009.
Audition pieces may be downloaded here.

The Tempest

In 2001, the inaugural Ringplay production was the Bahamian Macbeth. An adaptation of Shakespeare’s original play for a Bahamian setting and audience, it had been created originally during the 1970s by the late Rosanna Seaborn (aka Todd), and in 2000, the newly-formed Ringplay Productions modernized it for the 21st century. In it, Macbeth was transformed [...]

Auditions for The Tempest

Yesterday we held the first auditions for The Tempest, Ringplay’s signature production for Shakespeare in Paradise.
Running the auditions was our guest director Craig Pinder, a Bahamian actor whose career on London’s West End includes featured performances in Les Misérables and Mamma Mia! as well as numerous productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Craig’s co-directing the production [...]

The Tempest goes into Production

The first auditions for The Tempest by William Shakespeare, adapted and dramaturged for a Bahamian setting by Nicolette Bethel, Travis Cartwright-Carroll, Reva Sharma, and Toni Francis, will be held tomorrow, Saturday, August 1st.
The Tempest is the signature piece of this year’s Shakespeare in Paradise theatre festival (October 5th – 12th, 2009).
Auditions will be held on [...]

Shakespeare in Paradise Update

Three things maybe you should know about Shakespeare in Paradise.

It’s happening in Nassau, Bahamas, 5-12 October, 2009.
The founders met through the month of June, collecting volunteers of various kinds and hearing from all sorts of well-wishers, and have come out with some solid goals and tasks to take us through to October. We need all [...]

Love in Two Acts – Track Road Theatre

Track Road Theatre (which goes by the initials TRT these days) is back on its game with this evening of two one-act plays by European writers from the first quarter of the twentieth century. It’s one of the few times TRT has ventured outside The Bahamas for its material, and certainly the first I can [...]