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texts&beheadings/elizabethr

 

With a swift sword-stroke to Anne Boleyn’s neck, the Princess Elizabeth becomes a royal bastard. Elizabeth, age 3: “How hath it yesterday ‘Lady Princess’ and today but ‘Elizabeth?'"

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Fresh from a triumphant run at BAM’s New Wave Festival, Karin Coonrod's texts&beheadings/ElizabethR is a dazzling theatrical self-portrait taken from
Queen Elizabeth’s own poems, letters, speeches and prayers.

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"...a surprisingly graspable crash course in Elizabeth I and her times... a glittering mosaic portrait of a queen... This witty, hourlong performance piece was created by Compagnia’s founder, Karin Coonrod, a theater artist of far-reaching inventiveness."

Ben Brantley, New York Times.

 

 

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February 17, 2017 at Wesleyan University, 8:00pm

283 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT 06459

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February 23, 2017, 7:00 pm

Cathedral of St. John the Divine

Amsterdam Avenue @112th Street

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Actors:

Helga Davis

Juliana Francis Kelly

Cristina Spina

Adina Verson

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Music by Gina Leishman
 

Set by John Conklin
 

Costumes by Oana Botez
 

Lights by Peter Ksander

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Assoc. Lighting Designer:  Cecilia Durbin
 

Movement by Adrian Silver

Sound: Tony Geballe

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Production Stage Manager:  Katherine Shelton   

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Assistant Stage Manager:  Alex Hansen 

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2015

at The Folger Theater, Washington, DC   (photos by T Wood)

and Brooklyn Academy of Music/Next Wave Festival  (photos by Paula Court)

 

Actors:

Monique Barbee

Ayeje Feamster

Juliana Francis-Kelly

Cristina Spina

 

Music: Gina Leishman

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Scenic Design: John Conklin

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Costume Design: Oana Botez

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Light Design: Peter Ksander

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Hair & Make-Up Design: Jon Carter

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Movement Director: Adrian Silver

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Voice& Text Coach: Gigi Buffington

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Production Stage Manager: Carol Clark

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Assistant Stage Manager: Katherine Shelton

 

 

New York Times Review

 

Theater Washington Review

Washington City Paper