I’m off right now to stage another of my singular Play in a Day projects at Never Ending Books TODAY (Thursday, Feb. 23) from 2-5 p.m., 810 State St., New Haven. Fee is $5 a child. No need to pre-register. Just show up.
The word has gone out to kids all over town. I see who shows up, then explain a classic piece of theater to them. Then we stage it, in time to present to their parents when they come to pick them up.
I never know what it’ll be before I meet the potential cast. We’ve done Aristophanes, Ibsen, Chekhov, Jonson, Plautus, Shaw and several others. I’ve pretty much ruled out Machiavelli’s Mandragola for today. Above is an outtake from our last production, the Victorian melodrama Under the Gaslights.