Due to the pandemic,
performances are online rather than in-person.
The Cuban Swimmer
by Milcha Sanchez-Scott
A DAOR Production on YouTube
DAOR actors Lee Gale Gruen, Jon Rasmussen, Gail Wetherbee and Gay White and director Gary Green have completed a six-month project to produce a Zoom recording of The Cuban Swimmer, by Milcha Sanchez-Scott. The 35-minute play, about a Latino family, is written in the literary style of magical realism.
Because the play involves much action and various sound effects, producing this script-in-hand performance was a challenge for actors working simultaneously in their separate homes. The edited Zoom recording can be viewed on YouTube, at the link below.
t the same link are a number of shorter plays recorded this past December and January by several DAOR actors who worked with Gary Green.
Link to the YouTube playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUVD4ojrIArZnwGW2Y6a94JMPLLNTCOW8
Dramatic poetry presentations coming mid-July
“The Castle on the Hill” by Sherman Brown, directed by Linda Kelp
“The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse” by David Wilcox, directed by Jean Wilcox
“Gaining Altitude” by Edna Coulson Hall, directed by Linda Kelp
“Who’s That at the Door?” by David Wilcox, directed by Cynthia Wilson
by Milcha Sanchez-Scott
A DAOR Production on YouTube
DAOR actors Lee Gale Gruen, Jon Rasmussen, Gail Wetherbee and Gay White and director Gary Green have completed a six-month project to produce a Zoom recording of The Cuban Swimmer, by Milcha Sanchez-Scott. The 35-minute play, about a Latino family, is written in the literary style of magical realism.
Because the play involves much action and various sound effects, producing this script-in-hand performance was a challenge for actors working simultaneously in their separate homes. The edited Zoom recording can be viewed on YouTube, at the link below.
t the same link are a number of shorter plays recorded this past December and January by several DAOR actors who worked with Gary Green.
Link to the YouTube playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUVD4ojrIArZnwGW2Y6a94JMPLLNTCOW8
Dramatic poetry presentations coming mid-July
“The Castle on the Hill” by Sherman Brown, directed by Linda Kelp
“The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse” by David Wilcox, directed by Jean Wilcox
“Gaining Altitude” by Edna Coulson Hall, directed by Linda Kelp
“Who’s That at the Door?” by David Wilcox, directed by Cynthia Wilson
Directors for ZOOM Scenes Available
Free
Working on scenes via Zoom has proven popular, and two DAOR directors are currently offering their services. Gary Green, who directed for Your Two Cents and offered a DAOR scene study class, has been working on Zoom with actors and plans to continue. Now Linda Kelp, Naked Stage director of Almost Maine, American Dream, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Quality of Life, is also offering to direct scenes and short plays via Zoom.
Groups of two or three actors will rehearse privately with Linda or Gary, then (optionally) record their performances and/or perform for a "live" Zoom audience. Actors can partner with DAOR members or friends located anywhere.
If interested, please contact:
Linda Kelp lcweed@yahoo.com
or Gary Green basstudent1@yahoo.com
Free
Working on scenes via Zoom has proven popular, and two DAOR directors are currently offering their services. Gary Green, who directed for Your Two Cents and offered a DAOR scene study class, has been working on Zoom with actors and plans to continue. Now Linda Kelp, Naked Stage director of Almost Maine, American Dream, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Quality of Life, is also offering to direct scenes and short plays via Zoom.
Groups of two or three actors will rehearse privately with Linda or Gary, then (optionally) record their performances and/or perform for a "live" Zoom audience. Actors can partner with DAOR members or friends located anywhere.
If interested, please contact:
Linda Kelp lcweed@yahoo.com
or Gary Green basstudent1@yahoo.com
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POSTPONED
The Dixie Swim Club
by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten
Director: Linda Kelp
Producer: Jon Rasmussen
Cast: Gail Wetherbee, Gay White, Bess Chosak, Anita Green, Judy Scott
Photo by Linda Kelp
Photo by Linda Kelp
Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids, and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other’s lives. THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years. As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) that life flings at them. And when fate throws a wrench into one of their lives in the second act, these friends, proving the enduring power of “teamwork,” rally ’round their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction.
Dixie Swim Club rehearsal photos by Aki Rasmussen
POSTPONED
Curtain Up!:
50 Years of British Comedy
Featuring Monty Python
(50 YoBCFMP)
Directed by Tancred Agius
Performances: 2:00 PM
Free
This is the first show in DAOR's new series, Curtain Up!, designed to provide our growing ranks of actors with additional opportunities to garner roles in a wide range of theatrical genres.
Curtain Up!:
50 Years of British Comedy
Featuring Monty Python
(50 YoBCFMP)
Directed by Tancred Agius
Performances: 2:00 PM
Free
This is the first show in DAOR's new series, Curtain Up!, designed to provide our growing ranks of actors with additional opportunities to garner roles in a wide range of theatrical genres.
POSTPONED
Curtain Up!: House of the Holy Moment
Director: Jean Wilcox
Curtain Up!: House of the Holy Moment
Director: Jean Wilcox
POSTPONED
Naked Stage: Proof
by David Auburn
Director: Gary Green
Performance Dates:
Auditions: TBD -
M-2; F-2
On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine and the other characters into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—has she inherited? Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play.
Naked Stage: Proof
by David Auburn
Director: Gary Green
Performance Dates:
Auditions: TBD -
M-2; F-2
On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine and the other characters into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—has she inherited? Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play.
Curtain Up!: Love in the Time of Caller ID
By Rod McFadden
TBA
By Rod McFadden
TBA
Naked Stage: Sylvia
by A.R. Gurney
Director: Kevin O'Byrne
Performance Dates: TBA
Auditions: TBD
M-2; F-3/4
Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg's career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found him—bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and poodle, Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers Greg an escape from the frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. And Sylvia thinks Kate just doesn't understand the relationship between man and dog. The marriage is put in serious jeopardy until, after a series of hilarious and touching complications, Greg and Kate learn to compromise, and Sylvia becomes a valued part of their lives.
by A.R. Gurney
Director: Kevin O'Byrne
Performance Dates: TBA
Auditions: TBD
M-2; F-3/4
Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg's career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found him—bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and poodle, Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers Greg an escape from the frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. And Sylvia thinks Kate just doesn't understand the relationship between man and dog. The marriage is put in serious jeopardy until, after a series of hilarious and touching complications, Greg and Kate learn to compromise, and Sylvia becomes a valued part of their lives.