Sailors take on armed suspects during security forces drills across the Pacific
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Buy PhotoPetty Officer 1st Class James Eggers detains an actor playing an armed suspect during the Citadel Pacific exercise outside the exchange at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, July 20, 2021. (Daniel Betancourt/Stars and Stripes)
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan Early Tuesday morning, a security forces team, weapons raised, entered the Navy Exchange, searching for a knife-wielding suspect.
The action was a drill using blue, rubber versions of M4 carbines, all part of Citadel Pacific 2021, five days of security-forces exercises this summer at Navy installations across the region.
At Yokosuka, a combination of security teams cleared the exchange before finding and apprehending someone playing the role of suspect. The teams then moved to a second scenario at Yokosuka Middle School, where they took another roleplaying suspect into custody and discovered a “suspicious” package.
The trio of productions includes “Barrymore,” “The Belle of Amherst” and “Barefoot in the Park.”
The shows are ALT’s first to be produced live on stage in 15 months.
“We’re doing small cast shows for summer,” executive director Henry Avery said. “Audience response has been incredible.”
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Christopher Plummer won a Tony Award for his portrayal of John Barrymore in the acclaimed Broadway production of “Barrymore.” ALT’s Mario Cabrera (of “Amadeus”) plays the title role.
The play opens with Barrymore down on his luck and in rehearsals for a revival of “Richard III.”
“He was an alcoholic and had a lot of personal issues,” Avery said. “Growing up in a theatrical family – it was a hard life to live up to those expectations.”
“I wanted to claim Charlotte Brontë as one of our own because she is,” said Irish actress Maxine Linehan, who portrays Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, in the one-woman show Brontë: A Portrait of Charlotte by William Luce.
“Charlotte’s schoolmates have remarked that she spoke with an Irish accent,” says Linehan. “Her father, Patrick, was born in County Down at Emdale, Drumballyroney, near Rathfriland, about 20 miles from my own home place in Newry. The more research I did, the more I saw the profound influence their Irish heritage had on Charlotte and her sisters.”
Patrick, whose family name was originally Brunty, an Anglicized version of O’Pronntaigh – a family of hereditary scribes (appropriate, that) – was the oldest of 10 children. His father, Hugh, a farm laborer had eloped with his mother, Alice McClory, when her family objected to the marriage, perhaps because Hugh was an outsider, born in southern Ireland and adopted by an uncle – a tale that resona
Palm Beach Daily News
If you missed the chance to see Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production of
The Belle of Amherst online last month, you’ll get the opportunity next year to see it live.
The West Palm Beach-based theater troupe announced Wednesday that Margery Lowe will return at the end of the 2021-22 season in May to recreate her role as the American poet Emily Dickinson in William Luce’s one-woman show.
“The feedback on this production was so extraordinary that we wanted it to have a new life in front of an audience. That was the only thing missing from our online version,” producing artistic director William Hayes said in a prepared statement.