out &aabout
Above, Chris Kayser, standing, and
Joe Knezevich, front, practice hand-
to-hand combat during a rehearsal of
‘Metamorphoses.’ Below, front to back,
Barrett Doyle, Joe Knezevich and
Travis Smith, with Park Krausen,
right, go over a scene.
“Mighty Myths & Legends,”
a children’s play, in July; and
Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in
October.
“The 2013 season is a
smaller season. That was by
design,” Bauer-Lyons said.
“It wasn’t really about sav
ing money. We needed the
time to reinvent our business
model.”
“This is kind of rock bot
tom as far as the quantity of
work,” Garner said.
The idea was to create
time to plan, he said.
“We needed to pull back,
to slow the train down,” Gar
ner said.
Over the next couple of
years, Georgia Shakespeare
officials say, the theater com
pany will change.
Through new partner
ships with Kennesaw State
University and with the
Gainesville Theatre Alliance,
which includes Brenau Uni
versity and the University
of North Georgia, Georgia
Shakespeare plans to devel
op new shows in those cit
ies. Eventually, Bauer-Lyons
said, Georgia Shakespeare
will have bases in four north
metro Atlanta counties — at
Oglethorpe in DeKalb, at
Piedmont Park’s “Shake In
the Park” in Fulton, Gaines
ville in Hall and Kennesaw
in Cobb.
“Were expanding our
geographic footprint, but
we’re also focusing on one
product at a time,” Bauer-
Lyons said. “It’s expanding
who we work with and how
we work with them.”
Georgia Shakespeare says
the new alliances will allow
it “to co-develop new artistic
works and to integrate the
company’s artistic produc
tions into the academic pro
gramming of its partners.”
“We are working togeth
er on something rather than
trying to go it alone,” Bauer-
Actress records show’s metamorphoses
Music, movement and the importance of ^
a good cup of coffee to a theater produc
tion are just some of the subjects that ac
tress Carolyn Cook has explored as she blogs
about her experiences in the Georgia Shake
speare production of “Metamorphoses.”
Cook, who says she plays “all the old wom
en” in the show, in which actors take
multiple parts, plans to keep her blog
- Lifelong Metamorphoses, found at life-
longmetamorphoses.wordpress.com - go
ing throughout the run of the play and perhaps
!&•
longer.
She said she hopes the blog will give members of the audience a sense
of what goes into preparing a play for a performance. “I just feel like
theater is a communal experience,” she said. “The audience comes
to the theater and they have a group experience, but I don’t think
they realize how much they influence what we do. I just want to
open a door and say, ‘You’re welcome. Let me show you around.’”
Lyons said.
Georgia Shakespeare also is expand
ing its college internship program, Bau-
er-Lyon said. This summer, the compa
ny has 22 interns working in all phases
of programming, from acting to building
sets, and from box-office sales to market
ing, she said.
This summer, even the choice of the
main play Georgia Shakespeare is pro
ducing was figured in to the company’s
transition. “Metamorphoses,” originally
staged in 2006 and 2007, had been one
of the theater group’s most popular plays.
“When we did it, it was the most pow
erful and important piece of theater we
had done,” Garner said.
He said he had to tell his house-clean
ing crews to wait longer after the end
of the show to start cleaning the the
ater. Some patrons just sat in their seat,
thinking about what they had seen, for
10 to 15 minutes, he said. “It’s a really
Georgia Shakespeare’s
2013 season at the Conant
Performing Arts Center at
Oglethorpe University
“Metamorphoses” by Mary
Zimmerman, June 21-July 21.
“Mighty Myths & Legends”
adapted by Richard Gamer
and Allen O’Reilly, July 2-20.
“Hamlet” by William
Shakespeare, Oct. 3-27.
Season tickets cost
from $40 to $100.
For more information:
404-504-1473.
powerful piece of theater,” he said.
So it seemed the perfect play for re
vival in 2013 “if we’re going to do one
thing and remind people we’re still here
while we regroup.”
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