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Lunchbox Interview: NBActs Acting Out

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My guests today are all involved in this year’s Notable Acts Theatre Festival. Gillian Salmon is the playwright and plays the Narrator for 32 Short Plays About Fredericton. Naomi McGowan is the director for 32 Short Plays About Fredericton. Brandon Hicks is the playwright for Sinking (as well as another play in the festival, Don’t Shoot Your Mother). Pluto Shaw and Mimi Martin are Stage Managers and Designers for each of these plays.

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Lunchbox Interview: NBActs Acting Out and Street Scenes

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My guests today are all involved the Notable Acts Theatre Festival. Len Falkenstein is a well known figure in local theatre, and a founder of this festival, as well as acting and directing in this year’s productions. Beth Graham is the Playwright-in-Residence and Dramaturg for this year, as well as presenting a reading of her new play Amber Hope Porter. Beatrix Culligan is a performer in the site-specific play For Whom The Troll Tolls. Brandon Hicks is the playwright of the 10-minute plays Don’t Shoot Your Mother and Sinking.

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The Lunchbox Interview: BitB’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor”

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My guests today are Len Falkenstein (Director), Shannon Munn (Mistress Ford), and Rhett Ellis (Falstaff), who are all involved in the upcoming Bard in the Barracks presentation of Shakespeare’s comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor. We discuss the farce of this play, especially in contrast to the visual reframing as a mobster story.

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Interview: Theatre UNB presents Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband”

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For the last play of the season, Theatre UNB is staging a production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. Joining me is John Ball (director; professor & acting Chair of the Department of English at UNB), Shannon Munn (actor: “Mrs. Cheveley”) and James Gwathmey (actor: “Sir Robert Chiltern”).

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Notable Acts 2024 part 2 (The Lunchbox Interview)

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My guests today are all participants in this year’s NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival: Len Falkenstein (festival organizer; director); Alex McAllister (playwright: “Gargoyles”, “Animate Objects”; director: “Predormital”; actor), Cassandra Bullett (actor: Soda Noir), Mimi Martin (actor: Soda Noir).

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Notable Acts 2024 (The Lunchbox Interview)

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My guests today are all participants in this year’s NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival: Len Falkenstein (festival organizer; director); Olivia Onalundala (High School Playwright: “Little Rock”); Merrit Johnson (director: “Little Rock”, “Burden of Proof”); and Madeline Savoie (playwright: “Splinter, Winter, Bloom”; director: “Animate Objects”).

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The Lunchbox Interview: “Romeo & Juliet” (Bard In The Barracks)

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My guests today are all involved in one of this year’s Bard in the Barracks Shakespearean productions: Len Falkenstein (Grand Poobah of Theatre In Fredericton), Mary Walker (“Juliet”) and Alex Fullerton (“Romeo”). They joined me to talk about staging such an iconic play, and the fun of bringing these characters just over the edge.

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The Lunchbox Interview: TUNB presents “Dead Man’s Cell Phone”

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The phone of the person you’re sitting beside goes off, but you realize with horror that they have died. What happens when you pick it up? My guests today are Len Falkenstein (director; UNB Drama), Emery Hatchard (actor: Dwight) and Sammy Cormier (actor: Jean) joined me to chat about this somewhat contemporary play, Dead Man’s

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The Lunchbox Interview: Herbert the Cow presents: “Once More With Feeling” (Buffy)

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To do something special is one thing; to do it in song is quite another! My guests today are Corinski Nowlan (Artistic Director) and Lee Therieault (Music Director) of the upcoming Herbert the Cow presentation of the musical episode of the hit TV program, Buffy the Vampire Slayer called “Once More With Feeling”. We chat

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The Lunchbox Interview: TheatreUNB presents: Shakespeare’s “Henry V”

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My guests today are Len Falkenstein (play director, Director of Theatre at UNB), Heidi Downing (King Henry V); Joshua Burke (Bardolph/Williams). We discuss the desire to stage Henry V, how the play reflects on modern life, and what the experience of representing royalty feels like.

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