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Crimson Company Takes on Shakespeare in “As You Like It”

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Crimson Co. Fall Play - PosterUPDATE: Due to the Dunmore Buck’s recent win on the football field, the performance schedule for As You Like It has been adjusted.

Shows will now only take place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (November 14th, 15th and 16th) at 7PM.

There will be no matinee or evening performance on Saturday, November 17th.

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Shakespeare’s comedy of love and laughter comes to the Dunmore High School auditorium stage later this month.

The Crimson Company will present As You Like It on November 14, 15, 16 and 17. Curtain rises at 7 p.m. sharp each evening. On Saturday, November 17th, the cast and crew will also take the stage for a 1 p.m. matinee.

Tickets cost $10.00 for adults, $8.00 for students and seniors, and $5.00 for children under the age of five.

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Forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, Rosalind and Orlando become entangled in a beguiling game of love and mistaken identity that turns traditional rules of romance upside down. Disguises and secrets get in the way of true love and result in hilarious love triangles that only a ‘magical transformation’ can fix.

A firm favorite among Shakespeare’s comedies, As You Like It has some of the bard’s best loved characters, pastoral romance, love notes, music, satire, slapstick, passion and even the famous “All the World’s a Stage” soliloquy.

This will be the final fall Crimson Company production under the direction of Brian McGurl.

Crimson Co. Fall Play - Brian & Dawn McGurlBrian, an 7th grade geography teacher, will retire as both an educator and Crimson Company director at the end of this school year.

He and his wife Dawn have spearheaded the high school drama club since 2005.

Brian and Dawn will take their final bow following the run of the Crimson Company’s spring production, “Beehive: The 60’s Musical.”

Members of the cast for As You Like It are as follows: Kaitlin Ahern, Ben Amaya, Matthew Behler, Patrick Burke, Lily Conboy, Ariana Costanzi, Colby DeSando, Madison Eagen, Raj Gandhi, Ian Gratkowski, Sam Hanna, Louis Hanni, Julia Ingargiola, Brigid King, Ally McNeff, Jake McNeff, Julia Pasko, Bell Pendon, Marquette Pendon and Isabella Stanco.

Stage managers for this production are Spencer Asman and Max Burke.

Recognition for Marywood Theatre Production

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Senior theatre major, Sarah Wagner, and Ellis Vogt a junior architecture major, are shown as Cass and Captain Mike during a production of “Wonder of the World” at Marywood College.

The cast and crew of Marywood University’s production of Wonder of The World were recently notified that they are the recipients of several special recognitions from the American College Theatre Festival respondent who saw the show at Marywood on Oct. 6.

Dunmorean Sarah Wagner, senior theatre student; and Angela Klawiter, freshman elementary education and theatre minor student, were both cited for excellence as performers and were nominated to participate in the Irene Ryan Scholarship Award auditions at the regional festival that will be held in January.

Marywood University’s production of Wonder of the World also received commendation for “Excellence in Student and Alumni Design Collaboration,” specifically citing the scenic design by recent graduate Tiffany Atkins, lighting design by Jakob Pepper, junior theatre student; and Helena Rankin, senior theatre student.

The play’s respondent was Trish Ralph, chair of theatre and music studies at SUNY Brockport.

Charles Gorden, M.F.A., associate professor of theatre and director of the theatre program at Marywood University, said, “We are extremely proud of the production and the hard work that our students put forth to make the production such a success.”

All of the student designers will be entering their work for competition at the regional festival, which will be held at Montclair State University in January 2019.

Dearly Departed Players to Host Annual Cemetery Tour This Month

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Cemetery Tour

The Dearly Departed Players will host their annual cemetery tour on Sundays, Oct. 7 and 14. Tours begin promptly at 2 p.m. Photo Credit: Drew Bubser

The Dearly Departed Players will be at Dunmore Cemetery on Sunday, Oct. 7 and 14 with tours beginning promptly at 2 p.m.  Audience members should arrive early to view exhibits. Comfortable walking shoes are suggested.

Admission is free but we participants are being asked to bring a non-perishable food item as the Players are partnering with Feed-a-Friend again this year.

“We partnered with Feed-a-Friend last year and it was extremely successful,” says Julie Esty, a member of the Dearly Departed Players. “ It was wonderful to see so many people streaming through the cemetery gates and filling those food barrels.  Barrels will be at the cemetery gates before the tour. “

This year the tour was the recipient of a small Lackawanna County Arts and Culture grant, thus the Players will incorporate a few people from the past who are buried in other cemeteries throughout the county.  While the tour is mainly Dunmore Cemetery residents — there are two or three from other cemeteries who have very interesting stories to tell.

According to Esty, “Reoccurring themes on the tour this year are some warnings — things we need to be mindful of today.  Those warnings, or life lessons, are regarding both good and bad things.

“The other theme is that this has all happened before.  We think that we are dealing with things that are new, but that’s not the case at all. It’s all happened before. The people from the past made it through things and we will too. Our people from the past will be sharing incidents and experiences with the people of today.”  

Also in the spotlight the Scranton Public Library’s Scranton Reads.  War of the Worlds is the reading selection this year, so a scene has been dedicated to that event.  

The Players also partnered with Scranton Films, a group of young filmmakers.  

happie“They’ve been with us in the cemetery during rehearsals and they’re doing some fun things in the way of video with the Dearly Departed Players,” says Mrs. Esty That will be represented before the tour.

“The Dearly Departed Players are very excited to be back at it again in the cemetery.  Rehearsals started in July and we’re hardly waiting for October. Last year we were again recipients of Happenings Magazine Happie Award for Best History-Centered Event,” says Julie.

“The crowds — and the distance people are traveling to attend the event — are amazing.  People are joining us from all over the country. Last year we also made the County’s list of Top Five Things to do in the Lackawanna Valley. It’s quite the event. “