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It's been said, all that is needed for theatre is three boards, two actors and a passion. But we probably could do without two of the boards and one of the actors.
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Lisa's Last Day backstage at the Pocono Ren Faire 7 11 94.wmv
Production manager Lisa's last day backstage at the 1994 Pocono Renaissance Faire before leaving for school. Though we were loathe to lose Lisa, her replacement Johnny M turned out to be quite a wonderful guy and invaluable theatre tech person in his own right.
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Dirk Perfect Instructs Keeshab at Pocono Ren 1993.wmv
Doug Mumaw and Chris Ockler take us on an amusing improv journey of instruction in the ways of the English gentleman at the Pocono Ren Faire in 1993, Dirk Perfect style. Those providing able support include: Kim Sava, Ron Haynes, Barry Lambert, Francie Huffstetler and Carl Asch.
In 1987, our first year at PRF as Artistic Directors, Brian and I created and directed a series of Elizabethan Feasts for the holiday season. What a talented lineup of actors and performers we had! After seeing a number of other feasts, including the franchised Medieval Feasts (at the huge Meadowlands where the Queen standing at the entrance and posing with each patron for photographs to be purveyed later, was queried by Dave Donovan, "What's your name?" "I don't know," she replied, "No one ever asked me before.") and the Feast at Bube's (two performers and lots of negative assumption), we wanted ours to be better theatre. With our peerless ensemble and the $500 budget bequeathed by the Grand Duke, this series of shows was the result, and made alot of people happy.
Remarkably, our indefatigable fight director Michael Donahue did this extraordinary full body burn stunt in front of thousands of people night after night without incident. I've been told that most stunt persons are way too careful and/or superstitious to do a burn over and over. But Michael, a family man and father, quickly volunteered, because, as he put it, he wanted to test himself. Michael found out that the rigors of performing the burn again and again, particularly the two hour prep period covered in 40 degree gel where he dangled on the edge of hypothermia, were as much a serious psychological test as a physical one. Today I still give him an A+ in all subjects. Our arena was a former roller coaster site at one end of beautiful, waterfall-filled grounds which we jousted in during the Pocono Ren Faire, and used for this midnight conflagration spectacle during Poe's Haunted Village. Once again we were trying to push the envelope of interactive themed festival theatre, past the common to the exceptional, and thanks to many special people, in this instance we succeeded.
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