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Double Trouble
Translating and Staging the Menaechmi by Plautus We conclude our “Found in Translation” season with one of the great comic masterpieces from antiquity. Written by Plautus early in the 2nd century BC, Menaechmi was presented for the first time in the context of the festival games, or ludi, of Republican Rome. These were spectacles of…
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Director’s Note: The Thanksgiving Play
Larissa FastHorse’s Thanksgiving Play is a brutal indictment of the cultural climate in America today, fitting perfectly into our season-long exploration of the Miseducation of the American Mind. It is cleverly conceived, written in the tradition of social satire going back to Aristophanes. We are delighted to present this recent work from one of America’s…
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Reintroducing Senator Preston B. Plumb, Rediscovering “The Senator”
Theatre of the Poor is thrilled to be collaborating with Stage III and the Fort Caspar Museum Association to bring to Casper a unique theatrical experience: a production of The Senator by David D. Lloyd and Sydney Rosenfeld. First staged in 1890, the play was a Broadway hit and toured nationally, with the actor William…
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Auditions for “The Senator”
Fort Caspar Museum and TotP Receive $23,000 Grant From Joint Powers Board to Stage Historical Recreation of the Play, which has been lost for over a century. Performances: Sept. 14-16 at Natrona County High School Auditions: Monday, July 31 and Tuesday, August 1 at 7:00 PM; Call Backs Wednesday, August 2 (if necessary). Rehearsals begin…
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The Miseducation of the American Mind
Our 2023-24 season is now (finally) underway! The Senator project required all of our energy and focus, so we had to delay the commencement of our own season to make way for this massive collaboration. It was wonderful to work with so many people across the Casper theatrical community; supported by a generous grant from…
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Director’s Note: The Senator
Every now again in the history of the theatre, surprising artifacts emerge that help us to better understand the theatre’s past. These artifacts take many forms and when put together, resolve into increasingly clearer pictures of what theatre practitioners did and how they did it. Knowledge of the theatre’s past can greatly enhance the work…
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Director’s Note: Oleanna
David Mamet is in our estimation one of America’s greatest playwrights. He challenges actors and audiences as few dramatists do, or are even able to do. Mamet has been taking on the issues of the moment for nearly five decades. Oleanna was written in 1992 in the aftermath of the Clarence Thomas hearings, during which…
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Director’s Note: “The Imaginary Invalid”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin, better known to history as Molière, was the consummate man of the theatre. Famous in his day (1650s-1670s), Moliere had dropped out of law school and began his career touring the French provinces as an actor in the Bejart troupe. After striking out on his own, failing, and doing a stint in…
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Curtain Call!
The Cast of The Imaginary Invalid Congratulations to our fabulous actors, and thank YOU for your support, as we continue to bring our audience the best of what has been thought and written.
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