For a little over four years, I was hardly ever seen around Blacksburg without my camera. As a result, I have quite a lot of pictures.
These are a few of them.
From my directorial debut –
A Trio of Ten-Minute Scenes. This is scene one – “Variations on the Death of Trotsky.” This picture features Betsy Cross as Mrs. Trotsky, and Ryan Kirk and Trotsky. That’s Trotsky’s skull he’s holding up, and that thing sticking out of his head is the handle of a mountain climber’s axe.
Scene two – Hunter Parker in “Thursday is my Day for Cleaning” receives a note through her mailslot from a deaf and mute vacuum cleaner repairman. The repairman is there because Hunter has just shot her vacuum cleaner.
Scene three – Hunter Parker, Ryan Kirk, Jesse Bogue, and Betsy Cross in “Marred Bliss” – a play written entirely in Freudian slips.
A shot from rehearsal for my second play,
Three Shots Fired Point Blank. Top – Charles Hilton. Bottom – Mike Hutchison and Bri Laskey.
And now, a few of my prize collection of backstage photos. The things you don’t realize are going on behind the scenes.
Karissa Swannigan, Jenel Ambrose, and Hunter Parker rehearse in the PAB lobby for a number from Chris Zavadowski’s production of
Cole, a musical revue featuring the work of Cole Porter.
Backstage at Greg Justice’s and Bernard Dukore’s
Arms and the Man. Jack Bennett waits as Felice Proctor prepares to fix his make-up.
Backstage at
Arms and the Man. Lauren Marinelli (Catherine Petkoff) visits me (Major Petkoff) in the men’s dressing room – here we are looking like the typical married couple. In widescreen, no less.
Three of the men from
Arms and the Man – Yours truly (Major Petkoff), John Bryant (Russian Soldier), and Jack Bennett (Nicola). We are, of course, dreadfully out of costume.
And, finally, one of my prized Halloween photos.
This is a picture of me dressed as Animal (of the Muppets) and Emily Rubin dressed as a bumblebee sort of thing.
It may seem like a lot of pictures but consider that these few scanned prints came out of a stack that measures more than five inches in height – and that’s only a fraction of the photos I took in four years.
We call this “having plenty of material to spare.”
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