Anyone else feel surprised by summer this year? by it being May 1st all of the sudden? I’m nearly beside myself with joy to see leafy green everywhere and clean-slate skies. I always think of that e. e. cummings poem at this time of year: “I thank You God for most this amazing day:for the […]
Andrew, age 23, acted as the stage manager for a production of Rejected: The Inside Story, and he’s been so kind as to share some thoughts about his experience. I hope you enjoy this “backstage” perspective that Andrew offers! What were your main responsibilities as stage manager, and how did you go about them? My […]
Fifteen-year-old Ana Owens performed in a production of my play Narrow Escape last summer. She played the role of Kendall, a rather ditzy, oblivious prisoner who refuses to follow the Guide to freedom unless she can take with her the chain that binds her. Ana enjoyed her experience with the drama, and she was kind […]
Nineteen-year-old Cristian Washburn performed in a production of my play Narrow Escape last summer. He played the role of Chris, one of the few prisoners in the story who trusts and follows the Guide to freedom. (Check out the picture at the end of this post to see Cristian in costume and in character.) Cristian […]
I’m so honored to have received this lovely testimonial recently from Joana Stratton, a friend, mentor, and role model. She’s the Education Department Chair at Hobe Sound Bible College, and she and her husband Jon direct the college’s theater productions as well. “When I see one of Rachelle Ferguson’s plays, I am often surprised by […]
Some of my favorite lines from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (which I’ve been studying in a class lately) describe the purpose of drama — and in a way, of art in general. It’s fascinating to me the way in which Shakespeare explains how actors should play their parts so as to best unfold the “necessary question of […]