Wednesday, January 30, 2008

More Limbo!

A small but enthusiastic audience, on a bitterly cold midwestern night, celebrated Limbo with five more plays, performed in masterly style by four of Columbus's leading performers.



Lori Cannon and Ken Erney in Craig Abernethy's That Day, a chilling reminder of the limbo in which the events of 9/11 placed both victims and survivors alike.




Lori Cannon, who's been a major figure in Columbus theatre for the past twenty years, with appearances at CATCO, Red Herring, Reality Theatre, and many others. She'll be in Hay Fever for Actors Theatre in May at the Dublin Recreation Center, and was a swashbuckling Petruchio in the gender-switched Taming of the Shrew at Actors in Schiller Park last summer.




Christopher Roche, Anita Davis, Lori Cannon, and Ken Erney in Karen Jeynes' Go Home Affairs -- caught in the bureaucratic limbo of visas in the Republic of South Africa.




Anita Davis, who gave a spectacular reading last summer in Adam Bock's Thugs for Columbus's Available [Light] Theatre--which made me make contact with her for future readings. She'll also be reading Judy Juanita's Theodicy in March in the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors series (see http://heckartdrama.blogspot.com)




Lori Cannon, Christopher Roche, and Ken Erney in Michael Kimball's imaginative Henny and Hitler in Hell




Ken Erney. I first worked with Ken some twenty-five years ago in the first season at CATCO, the Contemporary American Theatre Company; first saw him act some thirty years ago at OSU in The Importance of Being Earnest




Christopher Roche and Anita Davis in Joe Feinstein's Real Love




actor Christopher Roche, who finished his M.F.A. in acting last year and is now in his first year as a doctoral student; he'll be directing Working this spring at Ohio State.





Christopher Roche, Anita Davis, and Ken Erney in The Other Shoe by Lisa Soland.

photos by Ann Alaia Woods

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