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THE REAL THING—A Staged Reading
- BY Tom Stoppard
- DIRECTED BY Steve Siler
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SHOW DATES
Wednesdays: November 11 & 18 / $10 or FREE with a subscription
with John Craven, Ana Lucas, Matt Ramsay, Lucas Kiehn-Thilman, Elizabeth Lashar, Jason Pitt, Sukriti Chopra-Smith
From Steve Siler on the process and goals of a Staged Reading:
To take on Stoppard— the wit, the brilliance, and the excellence of his craft – places a challenge before us all to get the story and the characters off the page and off the boards; to lift the audience intellectually, emotionally, and artistically, I think that’s what theater people mean when they use the word “exciting”. This is that kind of show.
One of the themes in the play is in the title: The Real Thing. Characters consistently see through or reveal what’s under the surface to get to what’s really happening in the scene and in their inner lives. That’s part of the challenge: to get what’s under the surface into the conversation and interaction.