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This past year, The Acting Company presented Orson Welles'
Moby Dick
Rehearsed, a stage adaptation of Herman Melville's classic, and
William Shakespeare's magical last play,
The Tempest.
For the 2006-2007 season, The Acting Company presented Polly Teale's adaptation of
Charlotte Bronte's classic
Jane Eyre
and Student Performances of
Love,
Shakespeare. The 2005-06 Season included Shakepeare's
Macbeth
and Alexandre Dumas'
The Three
Musketeers. In 2004-05,
The Turn of the Screw was joined in touring
repertory by Shakespeare’s
The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
In 2003, Murder by Poe continued The
Acting Company’s series of commissioning, developing and
producing new plays based on great American literature. Following powerful and
successful productions of Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!
(2000-01), Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson (2001-02) and Stud's
Terkel's
American Dreams: Lost and
Found (2002-03), Murder by Poe brought
to the stage the work of one of our country's most well-known and widely read
writers. In 2005-06, we presented
The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson for student
audiences nationwide. Our commissioned adaptation of Carson McCullers'
The
Heart Is A Lonely Hunter played 5 weeks in Atlanta prior to a tour
southern cities. A New York presentation is planned for next season. More
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