Actors' Shakespeare Project coming to 255 Elm St next Feb & March

[ron_newman]

According to their Facebook page, Actors' Shakespeare Project will present their Winter Festival of three plays (Cymbeline, Hotel Nepenthe, Living in Exile) at "The Storefront on Elm Street (255 Elm Street)" next February and March.

This appears to be the empty storefront formerly occupied by Poor Little Rich Girl, and most recently by Halloween Scream. I don't know why they are using this instead of the former Jimmy Tingle Theatre down below, or why they announced this only on Facebook and not on their real web site.

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Well good! That will be a welcome visit, as far as I'm concerned. :-)

The downstairs space is sub-optimal for Shakespeare or any other big cast show. For one, there are no wings -- when an actor exits the stage, they're in the lobby. and the performance area proper is too small. I did a performance there once with a cast of 4 and we had to sharply condense the blocking, even though it was blocking designed for T@F's first tiny stage.

Upstairs, they can set it up any way they want. Get some risers in there and they could work in the round, even. They have the money to transform it well, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see they've pared down the cast size. Still, I trust their judgment. And John Kuntz! Worth it just for him!

[ron_newman]

Can you tell me more about John Kuntz? I believe I saw a staged reading of an earlier version of this play (then called 'The Blue Hotel') at BU earlier this year.

[smammy]

ASP has a lot of experience making things work in weird spaces.