Articles Tagged With: Penni Barnett

Chess at Third Wall Productions

Everybody’s playing the game— but nobody’s rules are the same— nobody’s on nobody’s side! It may be a direct quote from one of the show’s songs, but how hauntingly true it stands to this semi-post-pandemic world we’re all trying to scrape by in as it stands. Theatre is returning, for many— despite being May of 2022— these ‘late spring’ productions are the first live-in-person performances that companies are getting to experience since closing their doors over two years ago.

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(L to R) Louis B. Murray as Troy, Ryan Willis as Lyons, Tillmon Figgs as Bono and JoAn Monplaisir as Rose in August Wilson's Fences at Bowie Community Theatre 📸 Reed Sigmon.

Fences at Bowie Community Theatre

As I watched this long-awaited production of August Wilson’s Fences from the Bowie Community Theatre (it was set to open in March 2020 before life got so much more… interesting), I couldn’t help recalling lines from Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse”:

They f*ck you up, your mum and dad.  

    They may not mean to, but they do.  

They fill you with the faults they had

   

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Mary Poppins at 2nd Star Productions

They’re practically perfect, in every way! Almost practically perfect, that’s what we say! Mary Poppins popping up on the Bowie Playhouse Stage by way of 2nd Star Productions. Directed by Fred Nelson with Musical Direction by Sandy Melson Griese, this charming and quaint little Disney ditty is a lovely offering for the summertime. Anything can happen if you let it and they’re letting anything and everything happen on that stage; well, practically,

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