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Title | Talk to me like the Rain and Let me Listen |
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Playwright | Tennessee Williams |
| Director | Kenneth Collins |
| Festival Production Stage Manager | Dylan Nicole Martin |
Category | Iowa Directors Festival (Second Stage), Thayer |
1st Rehearsal | Nov. 29-Dec. 11 & Jan. 11-26 |
Tech/Dress | Jan. 27-Feb. 11 (Schedule TBD) |
Performance Dates | Feb. 10-12 |
| Roles to be Cast | Man Woman Narrator Camera Operator (this in a nonspeaking role and will involve operating live feed video onstage as a character in the play) |
Synopsis | This will be a very unconventional production of Tennessee Williams's moody play in which two unnamed characters, Man and Woman, live in a crumbling flat on the Lower East Side. He is a drunk, and she is purposefully wasting away - but between them there is an intimacy of desperation. This production will include a heavy use of live feed video projection, live ambient rock music, actors on microphones, vocal effects processing, and the employment of a signature acting style Collins developed with his company Temporary Distortion (https://www.temporarydistortion.com/) over the last 20 years in New York City. |
Notices | Note That students will need to return early from Winter Break as this production will resume rehearsals the week before classes begin from January 11-January 17. |
| Holiday Conflicts | 11/29 -12/06 Hanukkah*, 12/13-12/17 Fall Finals, 12/18 -1/17 Winter Break, 1/14 New Year (Orthodox), 1/14 Tamil Thai Pongal Day, 1/14 Makar Sankranti, 1/17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Observed), 1/18 Spring Classes Begin, 1/18 Thaipusam, 1/18 Mahayana New Year, 2/2 Groundhog Day, 2/13 Superbowl, 2/1 Chinese New Year (Year of the Tiger), 2/1 Seol-nal, 2/1 Tet Nguyen Dan, 2/2 Tsagaan Sar * Holidays marked with an asterisk (*) begin at sundown on the previous day. |