Hilary Somers Deely

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Wednesday April 6, 2011

PITTSFIELD -- Call it Berkshire Grown for the performing arts.

Made in the Berkshires, a festival of new cutting-edge works by Berkshires playwrights, dancers, composers, musicians, filmmakers, video artists and short story writers, will be presented over two weekends in October at the Berkshire Theatre Festival's Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge and The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield.

A bit of Tartuffe-Simon's Rock Nov 2010

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From Tartuffe

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MASS MoCA and Bazaar Productions Present

Theatrical Work-in-progress The Waypoint

(North Adams, Massachusetts) Since 2005, Bazaar Productions has brought up-and-coming,

experimental theater, dance and music to the region each summer as part of the Berkshire

Fringe. In addition to over 60 full length original works presented at the Berkshire Fringe, Bazaar

Productions also oversees EarlyStages, a play development program for emerging local writers.

In February, after a two-week residency, Bazaar Productions, in collaboration with MASS MoCA,will present a work-in-progress showing of The Waypoint, a play that began development during the EarlyStages Program at The Berkshire Fringe in 2008. After a two-week residency with the original ensemble The Waypoint will be performed on Saturday, February 6, at 8 PM in Club B-10 as part of MASS MoCA’s Alt Cabaret series.

“We are delighted to have the opportunity to further develop this extraordinary piece of theater

in partnership with MASS MoCA” commented director Sara Katzoff. “The residency provides ourensemble with a rare opportunity to fully immerse ourselves in the work. There is a focus and a depth to that process that would not be possible in any other environment. We are delighted to be doing so in collaboration with an organization we so deeply admire.”

“We are delighted to host The Berkshire Fringe artistic directors and the Bazaar Productions

ensemble” said Sue Killam, MASS MoCA’s managing director. “They are wonderful

contemporary art colleagues in the Berkshires. We’re proud that MASS MoCA has become the

back lot for creative production, a place that artists come to experiment or to put the finishing

touches on exciting new work. Our audience gets a first look at these new pieces. It’s really

quite remarkable to be able to experience such cutting-edge work in a small city in the

Berkshires.”

Developed by playwright Iris Dauterman while she was in residence at EarlyStages, The Waypoint

features Shelby, a pregnant woman who is optimistic but concerned that her broken past makes

her unfit to bring another life into this world, and Tristan, a child on the verge of being born who,

after watching and learning about the struggles of the world, is not sure he is ready to ‘get down

there and live.’ Under the guidance of the Waypoint’s gatekeeper and a mysterious tattooed

woman who weaves magical stories of life on earth, Tristan begins to see his life’s potential in a

new light. Shelby is heartened when her one-night stand proves to be more promising than

expected and her brother’s attempts to protect her confirm she has not only family but a

foundation. The Waypoint weaves rich narrative and magical realism with an original soundscore

to reveal the epic and often unexpected journey into life.

Directed by Sara Katzoff and scored by Peter Wise (who MASS MoCA patrons will recognize from his work in the past with Bang on a Can at their Summer Festival of Contemporary Music at MASS MoCA), The Waypoint features an outstanding ensemble including local actors: Emma Dweck of Great Barrington, Hilary Somers and Karen Beaumont of Stockbridge, and Adam Sugarman of Pittsfield, plus Timothy Ryan Olson and Josh Ramos of New York City. The Waypoint is the first full length production produced by Bazaar Productions, presenters of The Berkshire Fringe.

Texas time

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Dramatic in Texas!

The Waypoint in rehearsal 2010

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Rehearsals are underway and a new production is in the offing.

Berkshire Fringe Redux

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Berkshire Fringe is back for 2009 with am ambitious season!!

Bring me the head of PKD---BBC redux

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Bring Me the Head of Philip K Dick

LISTEN:

AVAILABILITY:

Sorry, this episode is not available to listen again . Why?

Last broadcast 08 Mar 2009, 20:00 on BBC Radio 3.

SYNOPSIS:

Gregory Whitehead's dark, surreal and satirical drama, set in contemporary America, centres on a deadly futuristic weapon in the shape of the android head of science-fiction writer Philip K Dick. Invented by a shadowy research unit inside the Pentagon, the head - which believes it actually is Dick himself - is wreaking havoc on society and must be stopped before it finds its body.

Cryptica Scriptura ...... Elizabeth Aspenlieder
Cathy Nebula ...... Karen Beaumont
Reverend Darkleigh ...... George Bergen
Nancy Robinson ...... Hilary Deely
Philip Dooley ...... Richard Jackson
Tiffany Splenda ...... Karen Lee
The Potato Man ...... Jon Swan
Perky Pat ...... Anne Undeland
The Patriot ...... Gregory Whitehead
Written, produced and directed by Gregory Whitehead.
Music by Laura Wiens and Nick Zammuto.
Poem by Jon Swan.

Moxie

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Hilary and Fringe-ista Sarah Katzoff celebrate Sarah's recognition as a woman of Moxie! March 2009.

Summertime at the Fringe

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HSD Fringe Festival Advisory Board Member with Petria May at summer 2008 opening.
Photo thanks to Rural Intelligence.

Mixed Company

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Mixed Company on Rossiter Street in Great Barrington produces plays throughout the year, served as the home for Ten Minutes In The Berkshires, and recently, was a venue for Berkshire International Film Festival.

First Role.....

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Marat/Sade
"Inmate"
The Lavender Door Theatre-Austen Riggs
Winter 1968
Director Jane Mooney Brooks

New Work in NYC

2008-08-25T16:47:00.001-04:00

The Lark brings top talent like Arthur Kopit together with new writers...a powerful combination.

Woodland Pot Luck

2008-08-25T15:46:00.001-04:00

Anne Fredericks and Hilary being wood nymphs ...Sunday August 24th 2008

When in Texas.....

2008-08-25T12:30:00.001-04:00

Grapevine Texas...

Simon's Rock Recollection

2008-08-25T10:54:00.002-04:00

Hilary Somers Deely ’68
recalls a community meeting that occurred after
Betty learned from the security officers that a
number of students had spent the weekend
drinking: “Betty called us all together, and,
dressed in her academic robes, paraded through
the ARC [Arts Recreation Center] with all the
whiskey bottles and beer cans tied on a string
clanking behind her and proceeded to totally
shame us with her lecture on how our misbe-
havior was a ‘blight on her dreams.

News Flashes!

2008-08-25T10:54:00.000-04:00

Foxcroft honors: Maureen Ann O'Rourke, of South Riding, graduated from Foxcroft School in Middleburg with the Josie Betner Mallace Prize for "courage and humor, that combination of qualities which represents the Foxcroft spirit"; and the Hilary Somers Deely Drama Award.

A standout in numerous Foxcroft productions and co-head of the school's drama club, O'Rourke also was a co-recipient with Savannah Guernsey of the Hilary Somers Deely Drama Award. During her senior year, O'Rourke served as a dormitory prefect and was co-captain of the varsity volleyball team.

King Hammer

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BBC Radio 4
Synopsis:
By Gregory Whitehead. A headless body falls from the sky into the middle of a prestigious American university. People quickly come to the conclusion the corpse is that of business supremo Sir Harry Hammersmith, also known as King Hammer. With a poem by Jon Swan