07.May.2010 Indiana Public Radio’s Bill Liston review AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
[402 words; about 2:45 [4 May 2010; [broadcast 6 May 2010 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS AT IRT By BILL LISTON For INDIANA PUBLIC RADIO Around the World in 80 Days opened on the main stage of the Indiana Repertory Theatre last Friday night, and it was a busy night for the five actors [...]
22.Apr.2010 Meet the Cast and Production Team of AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
La Shawn Banks Passepartout et al. La Shawn hails from Chicago and makes his debut at the IRT. Chicago credits include The Island at Remy Bumppo Theatre; Old Glory, The Turn of the Screw, Othello, The Duchess of Malfi, and To the Green Fields Beyond at Writers’ Theatre; Edward II at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Execution [...]
Jules Verne, Author of AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Author Jules Verne 1828-1905 Universally acknowledged as the father of science fiction, Jules Verne wrote nineteenth century novels that featured many wonders not yet invented. He is often credited with predicting skyscrapers, submarines, helicopters and airplanes, film projectors, and jukeboxes, as well as expeditions to the north and south poles, the use of hydrogen as [...]
Artistic Director Janet Allen on AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
80 days, 37 chapters, 24 time zones, and 5 actors by Janet Allen, Artistic Director Just three years before Jules Verne wrote Around the World in Eighty Days (serialized in Le Temps in 1872), two great achievements changed the course of human movement. In 1869, the French opened the Suez Canal, so that ships from [...]
Design Concepts for AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Kevin Depinet Scenic Designer From the beginning, the director and I wanted to incorporate the exotic and foreign nature of the Indiana Theatre’s existing architecture into the set. The red walls of the theatre evoke a Victorian sensibility that could easily represent Fogg’s home or even an exotic temple in Bombay. The set echoes the [...]
Special Thanks to the Artist Sponsors of AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Brian & Katie Barker Artist Sponsors of William Brown, director Cynthia & William Smith Artist Sponsors of Jeff Cummings as Phileas Fogg William & Patricia Hirsch Artist Sponsors of John Lister as Detective Fix Cliff & Janet Johnson Artist Sponsors of La Shawn Banks as Passepartout Daniel & Virginia Emerson Artist Sponsors of Minita Gandhi [...]
22.Mar.2010 Catching up with Constance Macy
Local actor Constance Macy plays Becky in Oxford Financial Group presents BECKY’S NEW CAR. Making her IRT debut in 1990 and appearing in over 18 IRT productions, she is a familiar face on the IRT stage. We caught up with Constance during rehearsals for a brief interview. IRT: What first attracted you to BECKY’S NEW [...]
18.Mar.2010 Becky’s New Car: About the Playwright
Steven Dietz, playwright Steven Dietz is one of America’s most-produced contemporary playwrights. Since 1983, his 30-plus plays have been seen at over 100 regional theatres in the United States, as well as Off-Broadway. International productions have been seen in England, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden, Austria, Russia, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Greece, Argentina, Peru, Korea, Singapore, and [...]
The Designers of Becky’s New Car Discuss their Concepts
Zero to Sixty Kate Sutton-Johnson Scenic Designer The staging dynamics for Becky’s New Car drove the set concept and early environmental decisions more than any other style choice. The pace at which Becky’s story unfolds and the undeniable sense that the various locations in her life overlap and occupy a shared space were departure points [...]
The Production Team for Becky’s New Car
James Still Director Over his 12 years as playwright-in-residence, IRT audiences have seen James’s plays The Heavens Are Hung in Black, Interpreting William, Iron Kisses, Looking over the President’s Shoulder (twice), The Gentleman from Indiana, Searching for Eden, He Held Me Grand, Amber Waves, And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne [...]