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'Belleville' by Backyard Theater Ensemble - My Review
The audience is often on the edge of their seats as we watch the skill with which the playwright carefully pulls at the loose threads.
After reprising their production of ‘Laundry and Bourbon’ at the recent AACT Festival, Backyard Theater Ensemble decided to take on another one act play for their seventh production. Yale Repertory Theatre commissioned Amy Herzog to write ‘Belleville’ in 2011 and it was hailed as one of the best plays of that year. The 90-minute play is presented without intermission in the black box theater at the Thomaston Opera House Arts Center and runs through April 12.
Click here to read my entire review on Onstage.
At this Saturday evening performance, I was seated in front of community theater veteran Lyle Ressler. We spent the 30 minutes after the house was opened talking about what we have been seeing in theater lately. I sang the praises of ‘Tarzan’ at Amity HS while he told me how wonderful Kristen Chenoweth was in ‘On the Twentieth Century.’ In June, Mr. Ressler will appear in Ronald Dahl’s ‘Willy Wonka’ by Theatre at TCC and his ‘Ragtime’ castrate CJ Janis will be playing in the pit. Kerri and Kennedy Morris have also been cast in the musical that will be directed by Jonathan Zalaski with musical direction by Beckie Scattergood Wallace and Michele Alicky.
