NOW PLAYING:
Stars in a Dark Sky
Thu., Aug. 21 @ 4:30 p.m.
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In the Q-Box: R.E. Vickers
Hopes, fears and courage. Join Stars in a Dark Sky characters Hans and Sophie Scholl inside WWII Germany as they turn from forced service in Hitler Youth to organizing student resistance against Nazi atrocities--challenging the silent majority. Is their choice worth the price? A true story.
R.E. Vickers, pseudonym for the family of four that collaborated in writing Stars in a Dark Sky, steps into this special Fringe-inspired Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
What's the best thing about Fringe?
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The diversity of shows, the variety of people, and everyone's passion to perform.
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What's the #1 reason people should come see your show?
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Stars in a Dark Sky presents on stage the personal thoughts of courageous young people and their observations about the world around them and what they could do to make a difference. And they did.
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Do you have any opening-night rituals?
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Chocolate malted milkshakes, post performance.
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What are the craziest performance conditions you've had to work under?
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Loading the Director (Melanie Moyer Williams) in the back of a New York City taxicab after our latest showcase performance with two stools, a large crate with lighting materials, costumes on hangers, scripts, tote bags, computer and sound equipment and one white rose, while Tibetan protestors visiting New York for the day streamed across 9th Avenue.
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How did you get involved with the arts?
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The writing team is a family of four who have always been involved with the arts.
1) The father was named LIFE Magazine's amateur painter of 1958.
2) The mother helped establish the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian and is an accomplished water-colorist.
3) The older sister is a full-time painter and writer.
4) The younger sister is a civil rights lawyer who reads a lot.
We all love the theater in every shape and size. We had long talked about collaborating on a play, especially after attending a favorite Shakespeare festival in Utah year after year. One day, the youngest member of the family said: it is time to write our own play.
It has been a long effort. We stopped counting how many times we have revised the text and asked for audience input. We have been fortunate in finding a talented director in Melanie Moyer Williams, who has cast amazing actors Dana Berger, Walker Hare, Nathan Johnson and Annie Keating. And we are now fortunate in finding an enthusiastic audience... you.
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THE STATS:
High school attended:
School of hard knocks.
Favorite Class:
History.
Next-up on Netflix queue:
1) You Only Live Twice (Sean Connery, 1967)
2) The Lives of Others (2006)
3) North and South (BBC, 2004)
4) Pane e Tulipani (Italian, "Bread and Tulips," 2000)
Playing on his iPod right now:
1) Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits
2) Schumann's Unfinished Symphony
3) Sting
4) Dolly Parton
Favorite pizza topping:
1) onion
2) pepperoni
3) extra cheese
4) all of the above
Last good book he read:
1) O'Brian, Patrick
Treason's Harbour
2) Weber, Caroline
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
3) Dillard, Annie
The Writing Life
4) McCullough, David
John Adams
All-time, hands-down favorite piece of theater:
Production of Arthur Miller's Death of A Salesman at the Southern Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City Utah, c. 1995.
Actor with least-bad portrayal of the title character in Batman:
Adam West [1966, TV]. [West was cast for the pioneering TV series (a favorite with two of our authors) by TV show producer William Dozier after he saw West perform in a TV commercial for Nestle's 'Quik' drink mix. West had appeared as the James Bond-like Nestle's spy: "Captain Q." Talk about an actor's range!]
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