[Capdist-announce] PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Flies Into Siena 3/14-3/23

[Patrick White]

*To Have Faith is to Have Wings*
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Peter Pan, I’ve come to appreciate during this rehearsal process, is
probably the most fascinating character for me to look at from different
points in my life. As a child with my absolute suspension of disbelief, I
could fly away to a world of adventure, battling pirates with my lost boys
of the Colonie. As an adult, I’ve heard of the syndrome named after him,
realized his character in the Barrie play doesn’t have an emotional arc or
really growth of any kind, seen how absolute faith has done irreparable
harm in the world and just last week felt the name and idea of Neverland,
his idyllic home island, being forever depreciated.

Working as a theater artist in the Capital Region has changed in my
perceptions over the years as well. From being an embittered reject after
13 years striving in NYC to returning home to Albany in ’94 and being a
community actor doing the most challenging work of my career on area
volunteer stages in groundbreaking vital plays to being a fierce evangelist
for the primacy, health and excellence of Capital Region theater thru my
teaching, directing, advocacy and most importantly, my attendance. I have
been over the moon to be a colleague in this community for the past 25
years which has over 60 groups producing with thousands of participants. I
am proud to offer “Peter” to an entertainment calendar which has over two
dozen major theater productions in the area in the month of March alone.

 Along the way I met Dr. Krysta Dennis, the producer of this show, when she
played one of my partner’s six wives as he assayed the role of Henry VIII
at Albany Civic Theater. She has taken on the mantle of irreplaceable
champion of Capital Region theater by extending Siena’s facilities and
resources to over a dozen local groups making the school far and away the
outstanding supporter of Capital Region theater among area schools. An
invaluable assist which has incubated dozens of productions attended by
tens of thousands of Capital Region theater patrons who need the region and
world premieres made possible by the school’s generosity. Just as
importantly, she lends her great talents and time directing plays in the
community, serving on boards, all too rarely acting and can be found in the
audience weekly. I love the rough providence that “Peter” is my first
college directing job and it came from a colleague in the community.

Every show we attend takes a measure of faith. We rouse ourselves and
venture out from our comfortable homes and put our interest and attention
in the care of storytellers with all manner of skill sets. I return again
and again to the theater to make sense of myself in the world and who I
want us to be and the act of attending makes my world better. Tonight, we
ask you to participate in creating our technicolor adventure by filling in
with your imagination what we have so crudely sketched. Our students have
spent countless hours away from their other studies working on this prayer
in the fervent hope to entertain you.

We have all made this pilgrimage to experience what, exactly? Our cast,
designers and crew have entered our playground of a rehearsal room and
taken a beloved, oft-produced script and story looking to tell it in a new
way with found objects and exploratory movement and techniques. We hope to
tell our story hand-made with love, joy and collaborative invention. A
story where decency and altruism are rewarded, self-besotted villainy
vanquished, songs were sung, many laughs were shared and we had the best
time being in a large room with many strangers from our neck of the woods.
We are very grateful for your faith in attendance and now… let’s fly away.

*At A Glance:*

March 14-23, 2019

*Peter and The Starcatcher*

*by Rick Elice*

*directed by Patrick White*

*At Siena College's Beaudoin Theater/Foy Hall, 515 Loudon Road,
Loudonville, NY 12211*

*Admission $5/$12/$15*

*Siena.edu/CreativeArtsTickets*

#SienaStarcatcher




Patrick White
Actor/Director/Teacher
C.518-779-2803
*Peter & The Starcatcher*
Siena College
FREE preview 3/13
3/14-3/23
siena.edu/CreativeArtsTickets
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