Greenville News Review of TURN OF THE SCREW

Check out the review of TURN OF THE SCREW.  Great work everyone! Rock on Debra and Brock.
 

http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070929/ENT/709290342/1056

 

J15: Blue Ridge High School

(Saxaphone in the background, I light a cigarette)

Monday was a cool and early morning, a little too early, as all five of us J’s piled into Paul’s champange Toyota Corolla…thank god the windows worked, for the coffee he brought us that morning was not sitting well in my stomach.  I would have felt a little resonsible for the low team moral on our first day of residency at Blue Ridge, had that backseat window not worked.  Since I’m on the subject of gas I might as well let you know that I thought it was mighty nice of Paul to let us use his car and not pay for gas…for the price we would have to pay later that morning, with those high schoolers, could of covered a 20 person bill at American Grocery.

Just kidding, I felt like going a little noir this evening.  Anyway, the kids were awesome!  Nick, Lauren, and myself taught two, hour and a half, morning classes. The first, a freshman english class, the second, an advanced drama class.  Dave and Jenn taught the afternoon class, which I believe was a underclassman drama class of about 33 kids.  Everything from my end went great, I think we reached more kids than we expected too.  After the show this morning, which got a double bow…by the way (brushes shoulder off), 2 guys from the english class came up to us and complimented the choice of songs and said ‘they went with the show very well.’  All and all it was a great experience can’t wait for the next one…hopefully the coffee will be better. 

a dose of entertainment for your day

Here I am blogging!  And as far as I can tell, Jen Goff hasn’t stolen my dog or animal of any kind.  I just wanted to share something amazing with you all.  Check out the newly updated myspace page for the theatre - specifically the video posted by David.

Make sure to thank David.  I can’t take any credit for this amazingness, but I felt the immediate need to share it with the world.

(Jen I tried to put the video in this post, but I couldn’t make it work.  Maybe I need blog lessons?)

Turn of the Screw

I know I shouldn’t be using this for adverts but TURN OF THE SCREW this weekend! Brock and Debra are GREAT. I saw the dressed run last night and that last scene blew me away…skin tingling freaky wonderfulness!
 
 

Blogging for the wrong reasons…

I heard that if I blog I get to have a donut. 

Jen Goff made me do this

Hi friends, My name is Jason and I’m one of your new Journeymen

Wow, finally I see what this blog business is all about.  I love it here, it’s like I’m in a virtual dreamland with nothing but time on my hands.  Anyway, Jen Goff kidnapped my canine b/c I haven’t been blogging like a good J should.  A big reason for that, get ready for excuse time, is that i have contracted crappy car karma.  A disease primarily known to effect Yugos and Rabbits.  Judging by the amounts of anti-freeze my car has been leaking I think Kryptone’s Ford Fiesta line has been making midnight stops to my apartment complex, and having special visits with my Saab.  Enough ranting, I have to go back to work.  Take care

p.s. Jen can I have my dog back…please?

Checking In

Well, we’re gearing up for another opening.  THE TURN OF THE SCREW opens in about two and a half weeks. The play is in great shape. I watched a run this weekend and we could have an audience at the end of this week.  It is making me think that we should start having VERY short rehearsal processes…two weeks and then tech…it would sure make it easier to make ends meet.  The eternal NFP Theatre problem…making ends meet.  I put in a couple of grants to try and raise seed money for the first year salary for a Director of Development…we’ll see how that goes, but we need to have things happen earlier here. I’m planning on settling on the 08/09 season by the end of November so that we can start our process of budgeting and planning reasonably ahead of time. So much to do! Give a call if you want to talk.

Post Frankie & Johnny

Thank you so much for a successful run of FRANKIE ANND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE! A great show all round.   
 
Check out the season’s first Edge production this weekend 9/7-9, OF WIDOWS AND VEGETABLES, a hilarious farce by Michael Scanlon and directed by North Greenville University’s David Holland.
 
Also, coming soon is TURN OF THE SCREW by Jeffery Hatcher, directed by David Matthews who has brought down his entire design team from Flat Rock Playhouse up in North Cackalackie.
 
AND…swing by the theatre and say hello.