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 [...]
30.Apr.2010 Around the World in 80 Seconds
IRT Actor Chuck Goad sent a link to this video called Le tour du monde en 80 secondes, which is very much in the spirit of our current production!
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 [...]
Director William Brown Invites You to go AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Travel with Us by William Brown, Director I read Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days when I was in grade school. I grew up in a small town in West Virginia. We didn’t have much money, and family vacations meant an occasional trip to grandmother’s house. But I always, always wanted to travel. [...]
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 [...]