This North Coast Weekend

Big news around here is the opening of Margaret Thomas Kelso's new play, Relative Captivity at HSU. It's apparently big news elsewhere, too: front page banner at the T-S and cover of Northern Lights with preview by Betti Trauth...Front page banner in the E-R and front of art section lead preview by Wendy Butler. Preview in the Arcata Eye this week, too. The show runs Thursday through Saturday this weekend and next, 7:30 in Gist. Much more at HSU Stage. (That's my favorite of the photos taken for the show by Kellie Brown of HSU Graphic Services. Nobody else used it, so I will.)

By the way, if you see the show, Margaret is very interested in hearing your response. This is the play's absolute first production, and responses are helpful in taking the script further. You can get it touch with her directly, or leave your response here, or at the HSUStage blog.

(As some of this blog's readers are in England and such places--and I'm not making that up--I'll note again that Margaret is my partner, and I did the publicity for the show, as I do for all shows produced by the Humboldt State U. Department of Theatre, Film & Dance.)

There are two other shows that had mid-week starts but one weekend performance left, both on Friday:

“Anéis de Saturno” (“Saturn’s rings” in Portuguese), the result of a two month collaboration between Dell'Arte International School second year students and Guest Faculty Artist Carlos Simioni of the Brazilian theater ensemble, Lume Teatro. It's Friday at 8 at the Carlo Theatre. Info: Dell'Arte.

And the touring Broadway production of Mel Brooks' The Producers, Friday at 8 at the Van Duzer, via CenterArts. I saw it Wednesday and it's very impressive and a lot of fun.

Continuing: Hunting of the Snark, the Dell'Arte Christmas show, continues at various locations. Betti Trauth loved it at the T-S, Willi Welton had reservations about the script in the E-R.

Also continuing: Fiddler on the Roof at NCRT and Charlotte's Web at Ferndale Rep.