HADRIAN VII
Pay what you will/open rehearsal is this Thursday night - Feb. 18 at 8pm!

Pay what you will is an excellent opportunity to see a show still "in progress" and maybe even a chance to see scenes reworked depending on how the run goes. It's also a cheap way to see great theater!

More and more people are coming to the "pay what you will" night and then coming later in the run to a real performance. It's gives an audience member the chance to how a show grows and changes during a production run.

And how can you resist seeing Doug Ryan as a Pope - come on - and a Pope eating pickles is just too funny to miss!

We hope to see you at The Freight Depot for Hadrian VII at any or even all of the following shows:


Feb 18 Pay what you will/open rehearsal 8pm
Feb 19, 20, 26, 27 March 5, 6 8pm
Feb 21, 28, March 7 2pm

Call 518-677-2495 for advance tickets or get remaining tickets at the door.
Remember - the box office is open Monday - Friday from 9am to 5pm. We don't know you've called if you don't leave a message! If you haven't secured your tickets during open hours, remaining tickets will be sold at the door.

DANCE VANGUARD SERIES

AVA HELLER

PERFORMANCE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH @ 8PM

BEACON FEED STUDIO

Ava Heller is a New York-based artist and teacher investigating the layered and inter-changeable dynamics between movement, music/sound, audience, and performers. She holds a BA from Bennington College and an MA in Dance Education (New York State Certification, Teaching Dance Grades PreK-12) from New York University. Ava works with multi-media choreographer Koosil-ja and collaborates with dancer Keren Ganin-Pinto and musician Westbrook Johnson to develop ensemble-based improvisation for performance. She has studied with and performed in the works of Dana Reitz, Susan Sgorbati, Terry Creach, Susan Rethorst, Jennifer Nugent, Paul Matteson, and the Batsheva Dance Company. Ava has performed at the Figment Festival (New York), The Tank (New York), Danspace Project at the St. Mark’s Church, and in the 2005 d.u.m.b.o. dance festival (Brooklyn, NY).
As a teacher, Ava facilitates the creative ambitions of her students through standards-based curricula. Students actively engage in the dance-making process and develop decision-making skills through the study of compositional improvisation. Ava is a 200-hour certified yoga teacher through Yoga Works and an avid student of contact improvisation.

CLASS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH @ 10am

BEACON FEED STUDIO

Contact Improvisation for all levels. Contact Improvisation is a partnering form of dance. Skills such as falling, rolling, following and leading, and giving and supporting weight will be explored through a series of fun and refreshing activities. Spend this Valentines Day dancing with a partner or best friend. Come as a pair or just bring yourself!

Sweet Storm Review: Loved It!

For The Daily Gazette *Date:* February 1, 2010

Elements combine to create refreshing, gentle '*Sweet* *Storm*'

*Author(s):* Matthew G. Moross

CAMBRIDGE -- Sometimes one can be charmed by what seems to be the
slightest of scripts. A smile comes to your face and stays there for the
whole of the play. You find yourself transfixed by an idea so odd and
fresh, you are not completely aware of what is lurking underneath. It is
on the ride home from the theater when the processing and revelations
take place. Such is the case with The Theater Company of Hubbard Hall's
current production of Scott Hudson's "*Sweet* *Storm*" running through
Feb. 7. Running a scant 70 minutes, "*Sweet* *Storm*" is a one-act comic
charmer with an absurd premise, gentle restraint, winning cast and a
deceptively simple little theme.

Set in 1960's Florida during an approaching ominous summer *storm*, the
play follows newlyweds Ruthie and Bo. In their arboreal honeymoon suite
in the sky, a tree house that Bo has built as a romantic gesture to his
bride, they start to explore the future from the view above. Ruthie's
initial excitement and surprise turns to doubt and fear and the two see
that their ideas of happiness and marriage may not be in synch.

The future will bring many unforeseen dramas and frightening situations.
How will they prepare? As the *storm* grows closer, Bo and Ruthie
struggle to brace themselves against forces both inside and outside
while presenting a story which challenges our perception of trust, faith
and love.

In a delicate play like this one, careful watch must be applied not to
force, cajole, trick, dazzle or manipulate the audience into a feeling
or an emotion. It just needs to breathe and be. Under the watchful eye
of director Dina Janis, cast members Remy Bennett and Monroe Robertson
manage to not only get the emotional honesty each of their character's
require, but are able to maintain that honesty for the duration of the
evening, a feat not easy in a fable so fanciful and one that borders so
close to fantasy.

Robertson as Bo, the enlivened parson, finds all the earnest and
eagerness that young faith can embody. Robertson's small awkward actions
as a man of the cloth experiencing the land of the lustful and the
fervent wish to redeem the emotionally crippled is engaging and appealing.

As the sensitive and melodramatic young bride Ruthie, Bennett succeeds
in revealing a wounded girl who has lost her faith as she struggles with
the notion of trust and opening up to its power to heal. Bennett's
performance is chock full of nuance and offers clues of what the future
holds for both Ruthie and her spouse.

With a simple setting full of tree branches, gardenias and glimpses of
hope, the evening succeeds in both charming us and puzzling us all at
once, leaving us wondering if what we have witnessed is the start of
something good or a vision that will be washed away by the impending
deluge. *Sweet* *Storm* is a parable which will leave you refreshed as
the air on a hot summer's night after a cloudburst of rain.

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