Sally Clawson and Zack Stern in "Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye"
Alchemy Works' 2003 season presented
"Where
There's a WIL(L) There's A Play"
In it's third season of risk-taking works, Alchemy Works
presented an engaging collection
of short works by, or inspired by, famous WILs. Though some were old standbys,
Alchemy Works added innovative and odd twists.
The Program of 4 shorts included:
--"For Whom the Southern Bell Tolls" by Christopher Durang, spoof
of "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams, directed by John Warren
--"Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde, a cutting directed by Dylan
Russell
--"Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye" by Lanford Wilson, directed by Anthony
Schmiesing
--"Waiting for Phillip Glass" by Wendy Wasserstein, interpreted from
"Sonnet #94" by William Shakespeare, directed by Anthony Schmiesing
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Alchemy
Works'
2002 season presented "A Lashing of Malice, A Slice of Humor...the Adult
Short Stories of Roald Dahl."
Adapted and directed by Dylan Russell. Photo below from "Edward the Conqueror."
Rica
Anderson, Micaelee Ellswythe, Michelle Hathaway and Lee Williams
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Alchemy
Works'
2001 season presented "me/you...us/them."
Conceived and directed by Mike Ward, this program included three works by writers
with disabilities:
Parting Shots
by Cheryl Marie Wade, author
[featuring Mark W. Hendrix and Danielle Thys, below]
Parade
by Susan Nussbaum, author
[featuring Nadia Adame and Afi-Tiombe Kambon]
The Rise and Fall of the US/them Empire
by Pamela Kay Walker, author
The
above productions were presented by Alchemy
Works, a
theatre company of the Professional Enrichment Program (PEP).