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Bakerloo Announces 2010 Season
Posted by Gail M. Burns - March 2010
2010 Season
Academy Hall
Corner of 15th Street and College Avenue
Troy, NY
Jane Austen City Limits
June 28 and 29
(to coincide with Troy Night Out)
Romeo and Juliet
July 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 21, 22 at 7pm
17th at 2pm
Third Production Coming Soon
Troy NY, March 24, 2010 — Bakerloo Theatre Project’s 2010 season will feature Romeo and Juliet, Jane Austen City Limits and a third play to be announced soon. The season will begin June 28th and run until July 24th in Troy, NY. The company, noted for innovative and unexpected productions of classic works, is in its 11th season in the region.
“For us, the focus of the season is ‘community’. With these plays we will be examining the various aspects of our community. We are looking forward to a thrilling and enlightening season,“ says artistic director William Addis.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and directed by William Addis, will be performed July 9, 10, 11, 14,15,21 and 22 at 7pm and on July 17th at 2pm. “We are known for our Shakespeare productions, and for our young explosive ensemble. We figure it is time for us to tackle this beautiful yet brutal play. This is the the play that invented the idea of the rebellious teenager,” says Addis. Lily Junker, Bakerloo’s New co-artistic director, seen as Hero in Much Ado about Nothing and Caliban in Tempest, will play Juliet.
Jane Austen City Limits, by Josh Levine, Maureen McGranaghan and Patrick Shaw, was conceived by Addis as part of Bakerloo’s New Works Lab-aimed at fostering new adaptations of great texts. The trilogy will set three famed Austen novels (Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice) in three cities: New York City, Pittsburgh and Troy (the three cities the company produces in). The project looks at love, manners and modern city life. Addis and Junker direct. The workshop will be performed June 28 and 29th.
A third project, to be performed in repertory with Romeo and Juliet, will be announced soon.
In 2009, The North Adams Transcript named two Bakerloo productions to their “best of the decade” list and the Albany Times-Union readers called Bakerloo one of the Best Summer Theatre companies in the region.
It is the mission of Bakerloo Theatre Project to present vital, intelligent productions of Shakespeare’s canon and other classic works by serving as a home to up-and-coming professional theatre artists of the highest caliber. Through performance and education, Bakerloo produces high-quality, low-cost, innovative theatre that shuns pretense so that a new generation of audiences will see theatre as a dynamic, accessible and inclusive experience.
Since 2000, Bakerloo Theatre Project has produced a summer theatre residency in the capital region of New York State. Beginning as a brief retreat for early career actors from New York City the residency has developed into a precious sanctuary for emerging theatre artists from around the country. In ten years, Bakerloo Theatre Project has provided over 100 actors, directors, designers and stage managers the opportunity to work on the greatest plays in the dramatic canon in a focused, intensive setting. As a result, Bakerloo Theatre Project has become a summer tradition in the capital region. Audiences looking for intelligent, athletic and literate productions appreciate Bakerloo’s style. Augmenting our summer productions, Bakerloo produces many readings, workshops and educational programs while serving as a laboratory for the development of new interpretations of classic texts. Bakerloo has participated in Troy Night Out, the Victorian Stroll and the Troy Food and Film Festival, has performed at the United States Military Academy at West Point, The West End Theatre and Center Stage Theatre (NYC) and the Society Library of NY, and conducts the weekly Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl.
“The best thing about Bakerloo’s production is that it neither merely interprets dialogue nor tries to reinterpret it, but rather builds on the wonderful foundation of the playwright’s words.”
- The Albany Times-Union
Bakerloo is grateful to the continued in-kind support of the Student Union of RPI.
For more information, contact William Addis at (518)892-2241 or by e-mail at: press@bakerloo.org, or visit www.bakerloo.org.