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Calling the Shots:
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Stage Moments
Production photography stands alone at the intersection of the performing and visual arts. It is the still photographers who turn the action and emotion of theater, dance and opera into potent images that serve both promotion and posterity. And, as long as economic and union restrictions make video recording prohibitive, that responsibility will be one more weight they shoulder with their equipment bags.
While running hundreds of photo calls during my 22 years at a major regional theater, I gained respect for these artists.
I worked closely with a half-dozen freelance photographers hired by the theater as well as scores more sent by newspapers. By the end of my tenure, a technology that had been inconceivable when I started would revolutionize all photography, boosting ASA and turnaround speeds, eliminating film processing, and putting a highly sophisticated camera in the pocket of anyone with a smart phone.
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‘Director Lisa James’ carefully choreographed staging allows the tension to build slowly to the play’s frightening climax and unsettling final moments.’
Patrick Stafford, Emily James in Kim Davies’ Smoke
Rogue Machine (John Perrin Flynn, 2016)
THEATER REVIEWS
Slow reveal
‘Smoke’ by Kim Davies at Rogue Machine Theatre, 2016
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While boundary-pushing sex heats up among a large group in the living room, two of the guests separately steal away to the kitchen. Their meeting appears accidental. At 31, John is a veteran of these parties familiar with the line between pleasure and pain. Julie, the 20-year-old, may be inexperienced at pushing the limits of physical tolerance, but she will gradually reveal a gift for the deeper psychological cut in Kim Davies’ surprising Smoke.
Their encounter, unfolding in real time over the 70-minute one-act, gets a compelling West Coast premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre (through June 25) as part of the annual Hollywood Fringe Festival. Director Lisa James’ carefully choreographed staging allows the tension to build slowly to the play’s frightening climax and unsettling final moments.
John (Patrick Stafford) and Julie (the fast-rising young Emily James) are actually connected through Julie’s father, a world-renowned photographer. John is currently his intern. When Julie arrives, after John has settled in for his smoke, she seems slow to recognize him. But we begin to suspect she knows more than she lets on.
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‘Gina [Gionfriddo] is not afraid to spoof it all, and she has this incredible balance of being able to make fun of stuff and love it at the same time.’
Amy Brenneman on her Rapture, Blister, Burn playright.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Slow reveal
‘Smoke’ by Kim Davies at Rogue Machine Theatre, 2016
[All Theatertimes Reviews]
While boundary-pushing sex heats up among a large group in the living room, two of the guests separately steal away to the kitchen. Their meeting appears accidental. At 31, John is a veteran of these parties familiar with the line between pleasure and pain. Julie, the 20-year-old, may be inexperienced at pushing the limits of physical tolerance, but she will gradually reveal a gift for the deeper psychological cut in Kim Davies’ surprising Smoke.
Their encounter, unfolding in real time over the 70-minute one-act, gets a compelling West Coast premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre (through June 25) as part of the annual Hollywood Fringe Festival. Director Lisa James’ carefully choreographed staging allows the tension to build slowly to the play’s frightening climax and unsettling final moments.
John (Patrick Stafford) and Julie (the fast-rising young Emily James) are actually connected through Julie’s father, a world-renowned photographer. John is currently his intern. When Julie arrives, after John has settled in for his smoke, she seems slow to recognize him. But we begin to suspect she knows more than she lets on.
Double Takes
Some favorite past Theatertimes reviews, interviews and previews worth a second look.
John Scofield & Lettuce
‘Bring in the Jazz-Funk’
Lettuce and John Scofield create a fusion septet for five California concerts in Los Angeles and San Francisco | March 2019
Mandy Patinkin ‘Diaries’
‘Arrangements of Shadows’
Abetted by a dozen gifted songwriters, Mandy Patinkin casts a memorable, wistful look at collective memories in ‘Diaries’
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