The Cape Cod Theatre Projectâs 27th season, which will begin on July 1, will include the staged reading of the groupâs 100th play.
The season will once again be presented in an all-virtual format, with a mix of emerging and established playwrights. This year the Cape Cod Theatre Project welcomes new and in-progress works by Bill Cain, Amy Evans, Selina Fillinger and Mike Lew, who explore themes of identity, hidden secrets, far-reaching love, birth and death.
Every week from July 1 through 24, a new play will be performed via a livestreamed reading. Post-show talkbacks will follow each 7 PM performance. During the talkback, audience members can share candid feedback with the playwright, director and actors, feedback that can improve and alter the script, sometimes dramatically from night to night, and ultimately change the final outcome of the play. Tickets to individual performances along with an all-access pass, which provides access to every performance all season long,
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Hilma Prather helps her husband, Circuit Judge John G. Prather Jr., into his new judicial robe after he was sworn in by retired Judge Bill Cain Thursday afternoon.
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John G. Prather Jr., new Circuit Judge for Pulaski, Lincoln and Rockcastle counties, addresses the audience attending his investiture ceremony Thursday afternoon.
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John Prather Jr., left, takes his oath of office as Circuit Judge as wife Hilma holds the Bible and retired Judge Bill Cain administers the oath. Looking on at right are Circuit Judge Teresa Whitaker, Justice Debra Hembree Lambert and District Judge Katie Slone.
Bill Cain s play 9 Circles explores in dramatic confrontations the questions also raised in Pete Seeger s song Last Train to Nuremberg and Bob Dylan s Clean Cut Kid.
Yes, the accused committed horrible crimes. But, to use Seeger s questions, Who gave the orders? Who planned the campaign to lay waste the land?
Directed by Michael Cotey and videoed by Timothy Moder, Next Act Theatre s fully staged production can be viewed online by ticketholders through May 16.
in 9 Circles, Reeves (Casey Hoekstra), an American soldier, is first honorably discharged from the Army, then arrested, interrogated and prosecuted for the rape and murder of Iraqi civilians. The playwright has Dante s Inferno in mind, but don t look for the parallels to be too literal; in his script notes, Cain likens Reeves scene with a psychiatrist to the Purgatorio, where fire cleanses sinners rather than punishing them forever.
A Stunner About a Sociopath
Next Act’s “9 Circles” offers psychological interrogation of young killer with a powerful performance by Casey Hoekstra. By Dominique Paul Noth - Apr 26th, 2021 03:49 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Chiké Johnson, Casey Hoekstra in Next Act Theatre’s 9 Circles. Photo by Timothy Moder.
The pandemic has opened the door to a hybrid entertainment form that combines circular stage design, rapid-fire confrontational language and the observable microphones of theater with the close-ups, moving camera and intimacy of movies – a virtual form that Next Act Theatre has clearly mastered just as it is likely to go away in favor of full live theater in the company’s future works.
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