Always have mixed feelings about the last day of the residency.  We’re excited to hear the presentations; we’re also sad, though, that the residency is over.   Page 73 generally is made up of a team of 3 – Liz, Asher and Dan.  But, during our residency at Yale, the team explodes to about 20 people.   It’s always a little bittersweet having to leave New Haven and get back to our three-person model.

Moving on.  It was great to hear Cory Hinkle’s Little Eyes and Kara Corthron’s Spookwater.  Davis McCallum (who directed Little Eyes) and Kip Fagan (who directed Spookwater) did tremendous work on these pieces.  Davis really managed to extract the creepy-funny aspects of the play; the actors (Dane, Jenn, Erica, Carter, Barret) were unbelievable.  And Kip helped bring to life the expansive world of Kara’s pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans with the contributions of percussionist John Corkill’s and the versatile actors (Teresa Lim, Nondumiso Tembe, Aja King, Aleta Mitchel, Trai Byers and Ben Horner).  Really, the plays couldn’t be more different – yet they’re both similar in that they depict societies in transition (Little Eyes’s post-9/11 Big Brother world and Spookwater’s New Orleans).  (Ed. note: So great that we were joined by board member Allison Blinken, who took some lovely photos!)

We’ll miss New Haven. We’ll miss everyone who worked with Page 73 this past week.  But we’ll be back to New Haven, for sure, and will continue to soldier on, hoping to work with each member of our 20-person Yale Residency family.

Trai Byers and Ben Horner

Nondumiso Tembe, Teresa Aviva Lim and Aleta Mitchel

Kip Fagan and Asher Richelli pre-"Spookwater" presentation

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