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REVIEW: "The Road to Mecca" at Silverthorne Theater

REVIEW: “The Road to Mecca” at Silverthorne Theater

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#Athol Fugard #Chris Devine #Greenfield MA #Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center #Jeannine Haas #Jenny Hansell #John Iverson #Mo Mosley #Molly Hall #Reba-Jean Shaw-Pichette #Rebecca Daniels #Sharon Weyers #Silverthorne Theater #Silverthorne Theater Company #The Road to Mecca

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Our forthcoming books for Spring | Summer 2021!

See our full catalog PDF → https://bit.ly/UTPS21 

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From a Taller Tower The Rise of the American Mass Shooter By Seamus McGraw April 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/TallerTower

A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles A History of Politics and Race in Texas By Bill Minutaglio May 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/SingleStarBloodyKnuckles

Seeing Sideways A Memoir of Music and Motherhood By Kristin Hersh May 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/SeeingSideways

A Singing Army Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School By Kim Ruehl March 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/SingingArmy

Far From Respectable Dave Hickey and His Art By Daniel Oppenheimer June 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/FarFromRespectable

Why Solange Matters By Stephanie Phillips April 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/SolangeMatters

Why Bushwick Bill Matters By Charles L. Hughes June 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/BushwickBillMatters

Why Labelle Matters By Adele Bertei March 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/LabelleMatters

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters By Tanya Pearson July 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/MarianneFaithfullMatters

Razabilly Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene By Nicholas F. Centino July 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/RazabillyBook

The Politics of Patronage Lawyers, Philanthropy, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund By Benjamin Márquez July 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/PolitcsOfPatronage

Reverberations of Racial Violence Critical Reflections on the History of the Border By Sonia Hernández and John Morán González June 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/ReverberationsRacialVi...

Grandmothers on Guard Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the U.S.-Mexico Border By Jennifer L. Johnson May 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/GrandmothersOnGuard

Violence in the Hill Country The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era By Nicholas Keefauver Roland February 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/ViolenceInTheHillCountry

Lone Star Vistas Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861 By Astrid Haas March 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/LoneStarVistas

The Myth of the Amateur A History of College Athletic Scholarships By Ronald A. Smith May 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/MythOfTheAmateur

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban By Patrick Keating May 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/AzkabanBook

Tragedy Plus Time National Trauma and Television Comedy By Philip Scepanski April 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/TragedyPlusTime

American Twilight The Cinema of Tobe Hooper By Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson June 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/AmericanTwilight

Below the Stars How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production | By Kate Fortmueller July 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/BelowTheStars

Building Antebellum New Orleans Free People of Color and Their Influence By Tara A. Dudley August 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/AntebellumNO

Monsters and Monarchs Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History By Debbie Felton July 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/MonstersAndMonarchs

Arrian the Historian Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire By Daniel W. Leon April 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/ArrianTheHistorian

Poggio Civitate (Murlo) By Anthony Tuck June 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/PoggioCivitate

The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights By Rachel Hall Sternberg July 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/AncientHumanRights

Playing with Things Engaging the Moche Sex Pots By Mary Weismantel August 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/SexPots

Surviving Mexico Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century By González de Bustamante Celeste and Jeannine E. Relly July 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/SurvivingMexico

Electrifying Mexico Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City By Diana Montaño August 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/ElectrifyingMexico

Roots of Resistance A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras By Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda March 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/RootsResistance

Vital Voids Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture By Andrew Finegold May 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/VitalVoids

Egypt’s Football Revolution Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics By Carl Rommel July 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/EgyptFootballRevolution

It Can Be This Way Always Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival By David Johnson; essay by Jason Mellard; foreword by Mary Muse March 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/ItCanBeLikeThisAlways

The Republican Party of Texas A Political History By Wayne Thorburn June 2021 | Pre-order → https://bit.ly/RepublicanPartyTX

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A Singer’s Notes 85: John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," NOT on Broadway!

A Singer’s Notes 85: John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” NOT on Broadway!

Chris Barlowe as Lenny and James Udom as George in Hubbard Hall’s production “Of Mice and Men.” . Photo John Sutton.

Hubbard Hall’s production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Menwas solidly cast and effectively staged by Jeannine Haas. Not surprisingly there were standout performances from James Udom as George and Doug Ryan in the role of Candy. Simply put, we have been given a gift in Mr. Udom.…

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#Benjie White #Chris Barlowe #Hubbard Hall #James Udom #Jeannine Haas

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Pauline Productions Presents "Whispering Bones: An Evening of Ghost Stories and Dancing"

Pauline Productions Presents “Whispering Bones: An Evening of Ghost Stories and Dancing”

Pauline Productions presents Whispering Bones: An Evening of Ghost Stories and Dancing October 25 at 7:00 PM First Congregational Church of Ashfield, 429 Main St. (Route 116), Ashfield, MA

Join Dr. Betterov-Underhill and a bevy of talented performers for an evening of tales creepy and comic.  Come in costume, if you dare.  And after the tales, partake in a bit of dancing upstairs. Appropriate for…

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#Alice Barrett #An Evening of Ghost Stories and Dancing #Ashfiield MA #Dr. Betterov-Underhill #First Congregational Church of Ashfield #Jeannine Haas #Kare Marshall #Kelvin Keraga #Nan Parati #Pauline Productions #Richard Pree #Whispering Bones #Whispering Bones: An Evening of Ghost Stories and Dancing

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Strident Theatre Presents "The Final Say"

Strident Theatre Presents “The Final Say”

Strident Theatre presents THE FINAL SAY By Meryl Cohn Directed by Jonny Epstein and Susanna Apgar Actors: Susanna Apgar, Kyle Boatwright, Marty Bongfeldt, Jeannine Haas, Steve Pierce, Chris Rojas

June 28-30, July 4-7, July 11-14 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:00 PM, Sunday at 2:00 PM Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre at Smith College

Naomi might finally get her play about her grandmother’s…

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#Chris Rojas #Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre #Jeannine Haas #Jonny Epstein #Kyle Boatwright #Marty Bongfeldt #Meryl Cohn #Northampton MA #Smith College #Steve Pierce #Strident Theatre #Susanna Apgar #The Final Say

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Majestic Theater Presents Three Theatre Pieces for Short Runs in June

Majestic Theater Presents Three Theatre Pieces for Short Runs in June

Summer 2019 at the Majestic Theater, 131 Elm Street, West Springfield MA

  JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN Thursday, June 13 • 7:30PMTickets $26/$24 Friday, June 14 • 8:00PM Johnny Got His Gun is Bradley Rand Smith’s award-winning stage adaptation of the Dalton Trumbo novel of survival and the persistent need in all human beings to live with dignity and purpose. This powerful and passionate story reminds us…

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#Andy Dolan #Bradley Rand Smith #Dalton Trumbo #Dorian Gregory #Emily Fox #Gordon Clapp #Jeannine Haas #Joe Bonham #Johnny Got His Gun #Laurel Turk #Majestic Theater #Pauline Productions #Rand Foerster #Robert Frost #Robert Frost: This Verse Business #This Verse Business #Tosh Foerster #Trenda Loftin #West Springfield MA

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Pauline Productions Presents "The Roommate" by Jen Silverman 

Pauline Productions Presents “The Roommate” by Jen Silverman 

Ashfield, MA–Pauline Productions continues their 11thseason with Jen Silverman’s nuanced comedy THE ROOMMATE, starring Jeannine Haas and Lisa Abend. Performances will be July 26 through August 4 at the First Congregational Church of Ashfield.

Sharon, in her mid-fifties, is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn, also in her mid-fifties, needs a place to hide and a…

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#Amy Putnam #Ashfield MA #First Congregational Church of Ashfield #Jeannine Haas #Jen Silverman #Lisa Abend #Pauline Productions #The Roommate #Toby Vera Bercovici

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by Jenny Hansell

The Road to Mecca, South African playwright Athol Fugard’s 1984 play about an elderly artist in a remote desert town, is being given a rich, thoughtful production at the Silverthorne Theater in Greenfield.

Elsa Barlow, a young school-teacher in Cape Town, has driven 12 hours to the desert region of Karoo, to visit her elderly friend Miss Helen, who has sent her an alarming letter. The apparently somewhat dotty Miss Helen, disheveled and flustered, bustles about with the tea kettle, begging Elsa to stay more than just a night, as the somewhat prickly Elsa unspools tales about her troubles: she has encouraged her students at the “colored” school to write essays protesting apartheid, and is in danger of getting fired.

Helen, it turns out, is in some trouble herself. She is an artist who has populated her yard with owls and mermaids, camels and  wise men, all looking to the east, towards Mecca. This profusion of imagination has discomfited the villagers–children throw rocks at her sculptures, and few people visit her anymore. Most concerned is her old friend Marius, the church pastor. Convinced that she is no longer able to care for herself, he is pressuring her to leave her home for confines of the Sunshine Home for Our Aged and, lonely and depressed, Helen is almost ready to sign the papers.

The play unspools as a series of lengthy, sometimes stagy monologues laying out Fugard’s themes and preoccupations: the political–the horrors of apartheid and its toll on the bodies and souls of South Africans, both black and white; and the personal– the intense pressures to conform in a small town,  the overarching drive of an artist to create, no matter the cost. Fugard is not a subtle playwright and the metaphors — lighting candles to beat back the darkness, for example — can be heavy-handed. But in the hands of an actress like Jeannine Haas, who plays Helen with luminous passion, Fugard’s graceful language and deep empathy for his characters are both absorbing and immensely affecting.

The first act sometimes drags, as Elsa and Helen explain their relationship to each other. The younger woman’s insistence that Helen must beat back Marius’s plot to put her away in a home is gradually undermined by creeping doubts about Helen’s ability to care for herself — Helen has burns on her hands and there are mysterious smoke stains on the wallpaper.

Marius’s arrival at the end of Act 1 give the play a welcome jolt.  The second act is structured as a battle between Elsa and Marius, each trying in turn to convince Helen that they have her best interests at heart. Marius initially seems like a moralistic scold, horrified that Helen has stopped going to church, practically nauseated by the heretical imagery of her art, seemingly unaware that if children were throwing rocks, they were probably encouraged to do so by the adults around them. Elsa is even more doctrinaire, even harsh, haranguing Helen to hold up Elsa’s own vision of a woman’s independence. Helen, for long stretches, listens silently, unable to get a word in about what she wants for herself.

Miss Helen Martins (Jeannine Haas) and Elsa Barlow (Mo Mosley) chat.

Miss Helen Martins (Jeannine Haas) and Pastor Marius Bylveld (Chris Devine) chat.

There is no simple good guy/bad guy here: Marius, especially in Chris Devine’s nuanced and sensitive portrayal, believes to his core that he is acting out of love and concern for his old friend. As Elsa, Mo Mosley (a South African actress who also coached the other two in their mostly very convincing accents) comes off as abrasive and self-absorbed even though she adores Helen. It is Haas, as she finally reveals Helen’s vision of the glittering lights of Mecca, who cuts through the verbiage to movingly reveal how she is driven to create a landscape of glittering light.

Rebecca Hall’s staging is effective without being showy, with the characters allowed to simply sit or stand still, putting the emphasis on the words. Occasionally the actors are caught for long stretches standing awkwardly behind the ornate blue velvet sofa that takes up much of the downstage area – I found myself mentally trying to reorganize the furniture to make it less obtrusive and give the actors more room to roam. The house itself, by set designer Molly Hall, feels like a creative person lives there: the walls are aqua and purple, with worn rugs layered on top of each other, objets d’art and candelabras on every surface. The ground-up glass Miss Helen embeds in the walls as part of her drive to bring light into the darkness is here, disturbingly, shards of broken mirrors attached to the walls, as if to indicate the broken state of Helen’s psyche. We never see the garden – it lives in Helen’s imagination, from whence it sprang.

The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard, directed by Rebecca Daniels,  presented by the Silverthorne Theater Company, is playing at the Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center, 289 Main Street in Greenfield, through June 30.  Tickets are $18 and $20, and are available at www.silverthornettheater.org or by calling 413-768-7514. Run time including intermission approximately 2 hours 30 minutes.

Cast:  Jeannine Haas (Helen Martins); Mo Mosley (Elsa Barlow); Chris Devine (Pastor Marius Bylveld). Technical director: John Iverson; Stage Manager: Sharon Weyers; Scenic & Lighting Design: Molly Hall; Costume Design: Reba-Jean Shaw-Pichette.

  REVIEW: “The Road to Mecca” at Silverthorne Theater by Jenny Hansell The Road to Mecca, South African playwright Athol Fugard’s 1984 play about an elderly artist in a remote desert town, is being given a rich, thoughtful production at the…

#Athol Fugard #Chris Devine #Greenfield MA #Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center #Jeannine Haas #John Iverson #Mo Mosley #Molly Hall #Reba-Jean Shaw-Pichette #Rebecca Daniels #Sharon Weyers #Silverthorne Theater #Silverthorne Theater Company #The Road to Mecca

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"An Iliad," Homer's epic story of undying love, chaos and humanity coming to Hubbard Hall

“An Iliad,” Homer’s epic story of undying love, chaos and humanity coming to Hubbard Hall

Masterfully adapted by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare from Robert Fagles’s acclaimed translation, An Iliad adapts Homer’s Trojan War epic into a gripping piece of theater that captures both the heroism and horror of war. This fierce, funny piece will ignite your imagination and leave you breathless. It stars Jeannine Haas and is directed by Sheila Siragusa at Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, NY, in a…

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#An Iliad #Cambridge NY #Hubbard Hall #Jeannine Haas #Sheila Siragusa