Good Medicine Theatre Company

Our show has opened! Les, Barbara, and I can now only sit back and watch the magic unfold before us. That is, of course, in between scene changes, light cues, and projection operation since all three of us are teching. We are completely exausted and completely proud. Go see us at the Winchester, you'll have a great time.
 
By way of a little teaser for the show I have included my directors notes below. Enjoy!
 

Same Time, Next Year is a play very dear to me. I am a dramaturge at heart (one who conducts research into the historical and social conditions, specific locations, time periods, and/or theatrical styles of plays chosen by the company, to assist the playwright, director and/or design team in their production) so the fact that each scene is set in a different time period makes this play catnip for me. More than that, it is a play about the human experience. It tells the story of a time that many consider to be America’s loss of innocence. As the generations come and go what we learn of this tumultuous time is often whittled down to a paragraph or two of cold, boring facts. If we read in a textbook that a Baptist minister was killed when he spoke out for a disenfranchised labor union in Alabama, we are unmoved. We deal with death on the news and in our city everyday, why should this be any different? But when my mother tells the story of how she risked her safety by volunteering to drive African American mourners to the bus station in Chattanooga Tennessee so that they could attend the funeral of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; I am riveted by the impact that one man can have on a nation and it’s people. It is not the facts of our lives that move us, but the relationships – the people that touch our lives. Now more than ever as our lives become increasingly more global and infinitely more complicated we recognize similarities between the era of 1950 to 1975 and today. We are a nation polarized by politics, terrified by strange new threats and enduring tragedies that change our lives forever. Naturally, we hope to entertain you this evening, but it is my wish that in some small way we might also remind you of your humanity and shine a light on the people with which you share your human experience.
                                                                               
Susanna Brent