As much as bang on actors, I feel like it is incumbent upon me to occasionally get back up on the boards to strut and fret, if only as an exercise in humility, and as a reminder of how, each year, it just gets that much harder to memorize my lines.
Well, tomorrow is just a reading, so my failing memory won’t be an issue, but I still get nervous whenever I have to put my stage money where my big fat stage mouth is. See details below.
(BTW: one of the last times I attempted to act this is what fellow cast members were forced to do . . . )
NPA & Seattle Repertory Theater present
In the Poncho Forum – Seattle Rep – 155 Mercer St
(please use main entrance)
Tues. Feb. 9 @ 7 p.m.
Two Readings:
Borders
By Lenore Bensinger
Directed by Carol Roscoe
with
Alycia Delmore
Todd Licea
Brandon Simmons
&
Lee Blessing’s, Reagan in Hell, directed by John Vreeke
with
Paul Mullin
& Jim Gaul
Free Admission
About the Play
BORDERS: A medical romance. When Paul and Jean, two young Docs, sign up for hardship duty with Doctors without Borders, they find more challenges than short supplies, “friendly fire” and death lurking everywhere. What’s it really like to test your idealism in the modern heart of darkness? BORDERS penetrates the private lives of dedicated medical volunteers.What does it take to serve in the midst of terrifying conflict? You don’t just give your skill. What are the joys and costs of putting your life, your marriage and your heart on the line?
About the Playwright
Lenore Bensinger’s plays have been produced in Seattle, California, Canada and St. Louis. She has worked as a dramaturg in most Seattle area theaters, with a special fondness for new plays. She worked at the Empty Space and The Group, co-founded Rain City Projects, produced the first US Fringe Festival locally, “On the Fringe.” Next up, an adaptation of Sophocles THEBAN PLAYS with Jake Groshong and Ryan Higgans for Balagan late this spring. Within the year, she’ll be bringing together an ensemble-
developed exploration of today’s returning soldiers through a “medical lens.” A near and dear project is the revival of NEW WAVES, the playwrights’ radio show happening SOON.
About the Director:
Carol Roscoe most recently directed DEAD MAN’s CELL PHONE, THE VERTICAL HOUR and RETREAT from MOSCOW at Arts West, END DAYS and HALCYON DAYS at Seattle Public Theater, BUG at Theater Schmeater and many, many more shows in town. She was seen most recently in Seattle Shakespeare Company’s TWELTH NIGHT and will be featured in the upcoming Seattle Children’s Theatre production of GETTING NEAR to BABY. Carol is currently teaching at Cornish College of the Arts.
