Freehold Theatre Lab : Studio
Pericles - Engaged Theatre Production
SEATTLE, WA – Freehold will tour Shakespeare's Pericles, directed by Robin Lynn Smith, to unique locations across the greater Puget Sound area, June 24 – July 3, 2011. Realizing the power of theatre to bring about an extraordinary communion between audience and performer is at the core of Freehold's mission and at the heart of our annual Engaged Theatre tour. Since 2003, Freehold’s Engaged Theatre has toured Shakespeare productions to communities with little or no access to live theatre. This year the tour will perform for the general public as well as for a number of underserved populations including Echo Glen Children’s Center, a juvenile detention center. The tour begins with performances in Seattle for the general public.
The cast for this year’s performance of Pericles will be comprised entirely of students from Freehold’s Ensemble Training Intensive which is a 10 month acting conservatory program. This performance will be the culmination of the last ten months of the students’ training at Freehold.
This year’s Engaged Theatre cast includes: Monica Chilton, Kevin Dailey, Elizabeth Deutsch, Lori Evans, Luisa De Paula, Anthony Leahy, Parker Matthews, Phillip Mitchell, Jonathan Nawn, Riley Neldam, Caleb Slavens, Lance McQueen, Melissa Topscher, Amy Wason, and Kiki Yeung.
The production will include live musical accompaniment with a score composed by Gino Yevdjevich of Kultur Shock, set design by Roberta Russell, and choreography by Lee Eisler and Jessica Jobaris. Cast across gender and race lines, reflecting the diversity of our audiences, this ensemble will bring this story simply and vividly to life.
When asked why she chose Pericles for this year’s tour, director Robin Lynn Smith responded that this story addresses a number of powerful themes including the role fate, destiny and providence play in the characters’ lives. Pericles’ characters discover a powerful lesson that to find themselves they have to lose everything.
Freehold and the artists of Engaged Theatre return eagerly year after year to this work for the creative inspiration it confers on all of us as well as for the opportunity to experience and share in the power and “communion” that occurs between our performers and enthusiastic audience members.
Freehold’s Engaged Theatre tour 2011
Pericles by William Shakespeare
Director: Robin Lynn Smith
Directing/Movement Consultant: Lee Eisler
Movement Director: Jessica Jobaris
Composer: Gino Yevdjevich
Musicians: Paris Hurley, Beth Fleenor, Gino Yevdjevich
Fight Choreographer: Jesse Sherfey-Hinds
Set Design: Roberta Russell
Costume Design: Hannah Stern
Properties Design: Heidi Hunt
Sound Design: Alejandro Iragorri
Stage Manager: Kristina Kyees
Set Painter: Montana Tippett
Road Chief: Brandon Chapman
Assistant Director: Marquicia Domingue
Cast includes: Monica Chilton, Kevin Dailey, Elizabeth Deutsch, Lori Evans, Luisa De Paula, Anthony Leahy, Parker Matthews, Phillip Mitchell, Jonathan Nawn, Riley Neldam, Caleb Slavens, Lance McQueen, Melissa Topscher, Amy Wason, and Kiki Yeung.
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Our Mission: Freehold engages artists of all levels in training and experimentation so that they may become more innovative and heartfelt in generating theatre that has a lasting impact on the community we serve.
Our Vision: We at Freehold believe that theatre should inspire people to embrace the full range of human experience and connect us all more deeply to ourselves and to each other. In order for theatre to accomplish this, it must be truthful, illuminate the unseen, and articulate the unspoken. To realize this potential, there must be a place dedicated to research and experimentation in training and performance for working artists, inspired novices, and willing audiences.
To realize this vision, we have built an artistic community dedicated to research and experimentation in training and performance. Freehold’s environment actively encourages diversity of age, race, economics, age and physical ability.
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