(FREE) "The Tempest" Coming Soon to the Ponca Playhouse Stage
(FREE) "The Tempest" Coming Soon to the Ponca Playhouse Stage
Director Emily Rose Parman will transport the audience to the heart of this Shakespearean world with her beautiful scenic design and impeccable costumes
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Ponca Playhouse announces it is time to purchase your tickets for their upcoming production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by a favorite, Emily Rose Parman. Some of Parman’s recent shows for the Playhouse stage include The Revolutionists, The Humans, and Sense & Sensibility.
“Director Emily Rose Parman will transport the audience to the heart of this Shakespearean world with her beautiful scenic design and impeccable costumes,” says Playhouse Board President Jennie Hinterreiter. “She never disappoints. I love how, in the same show, she can challenge and satisfy the audience.”
“This production of The Tempest was conceived (though never realized) for a different theatre company in New York, approximately 10 years ago,” explains director Parman. “It has been fascinating to watch my ideas change and develop to fit this particular cast and the flexible space of Ponca Playhouse.”
Shakespeare’s The Tempest is thought to be one of the last plays he individually wrote. It begins with a shipwreck and then moves to an island, with survival and betrayal, magic, revenge, reconciliation and love. The Tempest covers the gambit of emotions.
Director Parman often uses a variety of tools to set the mood for her productions: “I always use music as a touchstone on whatever project I’m working on. The Tempest is rooted strongly in the music of the mid-1990s, in particular one of my all-time favorite bands, Toad the Wet Sprocket and their album ‘fear’.”
The fourteen-member cast will bring all these various emotions to life on the Playhouse stage in this five-Act production. As is usual in the Playhouse tradition, you will see families together on stage—fathers and mothers with their children, husbands and wives and so on. The theatre is a place where families and friends thrive together!
This also extends to the crew. Rehearsal stage manager is Meghann Parman and producer is Thomas Rowell. Director Parman is taking care of costume design, Nathan Oesterle is doing light design, and Stacie Snyder designs props. Many others have already been part of bringing the production to life, and more will join as show time grows closer.
Emily Rose Parman is glad to have moved back to this area and to work in the craft she loves. “My career in New York was focused in the world of classical theater, and primarily Shakespeare, through my work with the theatre company Hudson Warehouse, explains Parman. “I am overjoyed to finally be sharing my love of this work with the actors and community of Ponca Playhouse.”
Bringing any show to fruition is always complex, but there is excitement with the process of production and working with Ms. Parman on the project. Board president Hinterreiter explains that the cast has some new faces to the Playhouse, which builds the Playhouse family: “The Tempest will be a breath of fresh air. A perfect way to start this spring season!”
Production dates for The Tempest are March 22-24 and 29-31, with Friday and Saturday night show times beginning at 7:30 pm and Sunday the 24th at 2 pm and Easter Sunday the 31st moved to 4 pm so members can first enjoy dinner with their families.
Tickets for this production go on sale beginning Monday, March 11, and may be purchased on the Ponca Playhouse website, Poncaplayhouse.com, by calling our box office at 580-765-5360 (you can leave a message with the tickets you desire, or your call will be returned), or by visiting the box office at 301 South 1st Street one hour prior to show times.
Come out and see William Shakespeare’s The Tempest come alive on stage at the Ponca Playhouse!
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