Post by PokerKitten on Dec 27, 2003 13:23:48 GMT
I've split the Other Roles thread, so if you find any theatre reviews, references, articles about James, please do post 'em here. Here is Hallow's Eve's original post in the old thread;D
Oh, my gosh...NAKED JAMES ON STAGE!!! Should have been there....
A review of a March 1989 theatrical production:
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''Making Noise Quietly,'' Ronald Holman's trio of intimate and eerie playlets, tiptoes softly out of left field to surprise you with its unsettling revelations.
Presented in a Midwest premiere production by Bailiwick Repertory, each of the short dramas deals with a war-related subject, and each concerns a pivotal, disturbing meeting between strangers in a sylvan setting. In director David Zak's pristine production, all three plays are staged in a plain black box environment, so that nothing distracts from the immediate moments the actors are able to create.
The best of the lot, in writing and performance, is the opening work, ''Being Friends,'' a sentimental idyll on the union of two young men, an openly homosexual artist and the conscientious objector he meets on a quiet picnic field in England in World War II. The two youths come from entirely different backgrounds, but both, in the author's eyes, are men of courage, and within the few minutes of this meeting, they have arrived gently at a mutual understanding and appreciation.
Having gradually revealed the personalities of each man, the play then reveals their bodies as well, as both actors strip off their clothes and lie down, slightly apart from each other, in symbolic brotherhood.
Under Zak's perceptive direction, James Marsters, as the garrulous, sophisticated urban artist, and Andrew Scott, as the shy, soft-spoken young man who finds in him a curious but appealing new friend, make this sensitive meeting a delicate, probing affair through their spoken, and unspoken, exchanges.
Oh, my gosh...NAKED JAMES ON STAGE!!! Should have been there....
A review of a March 1989 theatrical production:
QUOTE
''Making Noise Quietly,'' Ronald Holman's trio of intimate and eerie playlets, tiptoes softly out of left field to surprise you with its unsettling revelations.
Presented in a Midwest premiere production by Bailiwick Repertory, each of the short dramas deals with a war-related subject, and each concerns a pivotal, disturbing meeting between strangers in a sylvan setting. In director David Zak's pristine production, all three plays are staged in a plain black box environment, so that nothing distracts from the immediate moments the actors are able to create.
The best of the lot, in writing and performance, is the opening work, ''Being Friends,'' a sentimental idyll on the union of two young men, an openly homosexual artist and the conscientious objector he meets on a quiet picnic field in England in World War II. The two youths come from entirely different backgrounds, but both, in the author's eyes, are men of courage, and within the few minutes of this meeting, they have arrived gently at a mutual understanding and appreciation.
Having gradually revealed the personalities of each man, the play then reveals their bodies as well, as both actors strip off their clothes and lie down, slightly apart from each other, in symbolic brotherhood.
Under Zak's perceptive direction, James Marsters, as the garrulous, sophisticated urban artist, and Andrew Scott, as the shy, soft-spoken young man who finds in him a curious but appealing new friend, make this sensitive meeting a delicate, probing affair through their spoken, and unspoken, exchanges.
