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Friday, December 2, 2011

The Slithering Return of "A Pale and Lovely Place"

Posted by on Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:01 AM

During a recent rehearsal for A Pale and Lovely Place, director Kevin Kent stood in the middle of the room, proposing a sound cue to one of the show's designers.

"And Kevin will only change it once," performer Kevin Joyce said sarcastically, "and in a way that's clear and understandable." Kent advanced on Joyce, playfully wagging his middle finger. Joyce gingerly retreated to his stand-up piano. "You move away as if I might strike you," Kent said. "I move away so that I don't strike you," Joyce responded.

Kent turned toward me with a dramatic sigh: "That's the way it is sometimes—pulling of hair, slapping of..." He trailed off and returned to the sound cues. There was love in the air, and something a little darker, too...

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