Thank you for a wonderful weekend!
On June 25 & 26, 2022 The Nora’s That’s What She Said program presented workshop performances of Medusa Reclaimed at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge MA. Both performances sold out. This workshop directed by Eileen Little featured a fantastic cast of 6 actors in multiple roles utilizing dialogue, movement, aerial theater, shadow puppetry by Norah Solorzano, and music by the band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?.
CREATIVE TEAM:
JAMILEH JEMISON (Producer)
EILEEN LITTLE (Director)
BRIAN KING (Writer/Artistic Director)
NATHAN COHEN (Music + Sound Director)
NORAH SOLORZANO (Shadow puppetry design)
LAURA CROOK WAXDAL (Contributing Artist)
CAST (alphabetical):
KATELYN BEAUDOIN (Athena)
LINDSAY EAGLE (Narrator, Zeus, High Priestess)
JULIA HERTZBERG (Thera, Aphrodite)
ALEX LEONDEDIS (Perseus, Phineus)
DANIEL LUTZ (Poseidon)
ISABEL VAN NATTA (Medusa, Andromeda)
PUPPETEERS:
LIBBY SCHAP
LISA KATE JOYCE
CREW:
TY RUWE (Stage Manager)
BEN BROTMAN (Lighting Design)
MUSIC by WHAT TIME IS IT, MR. FOX?
RENEE DUPUIS: voice, piano
BRIAN KING: voice, piano, guitar
NATHAN COHEN: violin, viola, cello
JOE CARDOZA: bass
DENNIS MONAGLE: drums
WARREN BABSON: recording engineer
Medusa logo courtesy of ADW, Athens, Greece
photos by Jonathan Beckley jonathanbeckley.com
BTS photo below courtesy of Anna Rae
On June 25 & 26, 2022 The Nora’s That’s What She Said program presented workshop performances of Medusa Reclaimed at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge MA. Both performances sold out. This workshop directed by Eileen Little featured a fantastic cast of 6 actors in multiple roles utilizing dialogue, movement, aerial theater, shadow puppetry by Norah Solorzano, and music by the band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?.
CREATIVE TEAM:
JAMILEH JEMISON (Producer)
EILEEN LITTLE (Director)
BRIAN KING (Writer/Artistic Director)
NATHAN COHEN (Music + Sound Director)
NORAH SOLORZANO (Shadow puppetry design)
LAURA CROOK WAXDAL (Contributing Artist)
CAST (alphabetical):
KATELYN BEAUDOIN (Athena)
LINDSAY EAGLE (Narrator, Zeus, High Priestess)
JULIA HERTZBERG (Thera, Aphrodite)
ALEX LEONDEDIS (Perseus, Phineus)
DANIEL LUTZ (Poseidon)
ISABEL VAN NATTA (Medusa, Andromeda)
PUPPETEERS:
LIBBY SCHAP
LISA KATE JOYCE
CREW:
TY RUWE (Stage Manager)
BEN BROTMAN (Lighting Design)
MUSIC by WHAT TIME IS IT, MR. FOX?
RENEE DUPUIS: voice, piano
BRIAN KING: voice, piano, guitar
NATHAN COHEN: violin, viola, cello
JOE CARDOZA: bass
DENNIS MONAGLE: drums
WARREN BABSON: recording engineer
Medusa logo courtesy of ADW, Athens, Greece
photos by Jonathan Beckley jonathanbeckley.com
BTS photo below courtesy of Anna Rae
From April to August 2021, the Medusa Reclaimed Team completed 3 residencies at Manship Artists Residency + Studios (MARS) in Lanesville, MA. During the time we hosted more than 20 cast & crew to explore and develop various aspects of the production including script work, table reads, aerial dance, shadow puppetry, and animation culminating in a special "proof of concept" performance on the property.
In July 2021 we were awarded a Live Arts Boston (LAB) grant from the Boston Foundation to further develop the production for a Greater Boston performance by summer 2022.
In January 2020 we completed a sold-out run of Medusa's first iteration as an animated radio play with live music at the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science, Boston to rave reviews and ecstatic audiences. Rosalind Bevan of WBUR wrote, "This performance reclaims the myth of Medusa after #MeToo. I felt like I was floating. As I gazed up from my reclined chair, I realized I had never seen a show or movie from this angle. The literal shift in vantage point helps liberate us from the confines of what we've always been told." We are currently adapting the play into a fully staged live action production.
