As the image suggests, Walking Shadow Theatre’s production of Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher opens on May 18th and runs thru June 2nd. (Generally Thursdays thru Saturdays, but click thru for the full schedule.)
The production is lavish: Beautiful set, beautiful costumes, beautiful performances. I’m also appearing as Prime Minster Hyde.
If you’re local, come check it out!
I’m producing and starring in a two-person adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece at this year’s Minnesota Fringe Festival. We’ve got three shows left:
Tuesday 8/9 – 10pm
Thursday 8/11 – 5:30pm
Sunday 8/14 – 7:00pm
All performances at the Theatre in the Round.
An intimate, intense, and terrifying adaptation of William Shakespeare’e epic poem. In this dramatic, storytelling staging, the vibrant, staccato beats of the Bard’s eternal verse pound out a tale of erotic savagery and violation.
Lucrece is the sweet and virtuous wife of Colatine. But when Colatine sings her praises to his fellow officers, he lights a blazing lust in the heart of Prince Tarquin. Tarquin flees the army, returns to Rome, enters Lucrece’s home under false pretenses, and in the blackest hours of the night forces himself upon her.
Lucrece’s ordeal, however, is only beginning as Shakespeare vividly captures her bleak and hopeless struggle to cope with unimaginable trauma…
You can visit the American Shakespeare Repertory’s website for my information. You can also listen to a podcast Fringe Mini interview I did with Joshua Humphrey from Twin Cities Theater Connection.
John and Abigail, the play I wrote starring John and Abigail Adams, is now available for the Nook.
Through war and peace, tragedy and joy, the friendship and love of John Adams and Abigail Smith formed a passionate and enduring marriage which helped shape the future of a newborn America .
Through long years of separation – brought about by John’s work in Boston and Philadelphia during the events of the American Revolution – the couple’s only means of communication were their letters. Literally thousands of letters survive, and this unique adaptation – in the style of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters – allows the couple to live again in their own words.
The play was produced independently in January 2002. It received a second production in August 2007 as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival.
Of its inaugural performance in 2002, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune wrote: “John and Abigail is an adroit adaptation … a chance to hear about the sacrifices involved in championing the American Revolution. John and Abigail endured their extended separations with pen, paper, and patience, communicating news of disease, death, battles, longing, and love.”
The play is also still available for the Kindle and in a print edition from Lulu.
Under the electric lights of London, Mina is enamored of a handsome young solicitor. But when Jonathan disappears on a business trip and Mina is approached by an alluring foreign prince, a shadow falls over their lives. Now, seven years since the defeat of the vampire, the wounds of betrayal remain… until their private journals are published under the name “Bram Stoker” and they must either face the past or be destroyed by it.
Adapted from Bram Stoker’s Dracula by John Heimbuch.
February 11th – 26th, 2011
Red Eye Theater
Minneapolis, MN
Produced by Walking Shadow Theater
I was the dramaturg on this show. Biased as I may be, I have to say that the script is marvelous: It succeeds at being absolutely faithful to the original story (in a way that most adaptations are not), while simultaneously transforming it into something fresh and interesting.
Twin Cities Theater Connection is a semi-regular podcast hosted by Joshua Humphrey covering the local theater scene in Minneapolis / St. Paul. Episode #161 is titled “Justin Alexander and John Heimbuch”. As that title might suggest, I appear on the episode along with John Heimbuch. We’re discussing the upcoming of Drakul — which is both the most faithful adaptation of Dracula you have ever seen and, simultaneously, the least faithful adaptation of Dracula you have ever seen.
Even if you can’t make the show, you might find the wider discussion of Dracula interesting. You can check it out here.
Drakul runs February 11th thru 26th at the Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis, MN.
