Projects around Othello

ASP has a ton of stuff to be excited about going on outside of the Othello rehearsal room as well! Our own Othello and Desdemona (Jason Bowen and Brooke Hardman) will be working in the Charlestown High School two days a week. They will work with students on scenes from Othello. The really exciting thing about this is that these students have NEVER had a theater program in the high school!
Company member Robert Walsh (last seen as Bottom in Midsummer) will be working at the Eliot Treatment Facility for boys for days a week through March 4th. I saw their performance last year and it was amazing! They did a fight scene from Othello and just loved working with Bob and performing in front of an audience for the first time.
Michael Forden Walker (our Cassio) will be making school visits to schools who will be attending the Othello matinees. They'll do work on the play before the students see it so they'll have a deeper understanding of the text right from the get go.
Outside of the Othello text itself, Jennie Israel and Project Director Lori Taylor will be at the Pelletier Assessment Facility and Rotenberg Treatment Facility 2 days a week through the end of March; Magda Spasiano is working on Midsummer with our Shakespeare on the Outs girls two days a week as part of an after school program. (Check out the SoS page on Facebook!); Magda and Jason are also working with student at Boston Arts Academy on Midsummer. Some of the actors that performed in our Midsummer (which closed in January) are performing in this production as well! I went to one rehearsal and you should see Jason direct these kids! They think he's just the bees knees (but they would never use such an old fashioned word to describe it!). And last but not least, Lori Shaller and Mara Sidmore (our Hermia in Midsummer) will be leading a teacher training at Charlestown High School for 12 English teachers in March.
Check back in soon for reports on how all of these projects are going!
Adele