Listen Fridays at 9:00am (replayed on Saturday also at 9am) to Paula Granquist’s “ArtZany!: Radio for the Imagination”
Paula’s Guest/Topic this week: This week Paula has a double dose of theater folks on ArtZany! Radio. There two Northfield Arts Guild productions set to open next week. First she will visit with the Bob Gregory-Bjorkland and the kids of the Young People’s Theater Workshop and then Bryan Reed and Shelley Whitehead from the Guild production of Country Wife will visit about the theater in the park show The Country Wife.
Young People’s Theater Workshop:
Bob Gregory-Bjorkland is a teacher and arts coordinator at ARTech Charter School and manager of the Northfield Arts Guild Young People’s Theater Workshop and choir director of the Spirit Voices Choir at First United Church of Christ in Northfield.
The Young People’s Theater Workshop students that will join us are: Diana Montero, an elementary school student, Hannah Mahr, a middle schooler and Patrick Walker, a high schooler.
Performances of the Young People’s Theater Workshop for this session, based on the theme “Wrap it Up” will be:
Venue: Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street in Northfield
Prices: Adults $5, Students and Children $3 (available at the door)
Dates: Wednesday, 3 August and Thursday, 4 August at 5:30PM and on Friday, 5 August at 10:00AM.
The Country Wife by William Wycherley directed by Susan Dunhaupt:
The Country Wife cast members on ArtZany! Radio:
Bryan Reed (he plays Horner)
Shelley Whitehead (she plays Lady Fidget)
The Country Wife is a popular Restoration Comedy written in 1675. Based on several plays by Moliere, it features colloquial prose, a fast-paced plot tangle, and many jokes. It turns on two indelicate plot devices: a rake’s trick of pretending impotence in order to safely have clandestine affairs with married women, and the arrival in London of an inexperienced young “country wife”, with her discovery of the joys of town life, especially the fascinating London men. Come join us for comedy al fresco!
Venue: Central Park, corner of Winona and Third Streets
Prices: Adults $15, Students $10
Dates: August 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13 at 7:00 pm
ASL Interpretation: Available August 5 only
Audio Description: Available August 13 only
