Nintendo-inspired theatre

by Site Admin on Monday, August 11, 2008
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National

Here’s one we’ve unfortunately missed: a play based on the life and times of Princess Zelda and her heroic often-time rescuer, Link, both characters from the long running Zelda series on multiple Nintendo gaming platforms.

The production by the Foolhardy players, entitled Liink & Zellda (do you think the misspelling will protect them from copyright infringement? - or is that why the play is now closing? I can’t think of any other possible reason why its run is over already) updates the fairy tale, finding the troublesome twosome no longer living in domestic bliss.

Liink and Zellda do what they always do to obtain the Tryforce. She gets into trouble and loses it. And he saves her and gets it back. But, after Liink and Zellda come to blows, they part ways to decide what’s best for them – can they survive alone?

Unfortunately, Liink and Zellda closes tonight in London.

(Via BoingBoing.)

Worcester Standard anticipates “a powerful and funny play”

by Site Admin on Saturday, August 9, 2008
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Newspapers, Publicity, STAC productions, Worcester Live

This week’s Worcester Standard, out yesterday, looks forward to STAC’s Worcester Festival production, The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson.

The article is online: “Sister act at the Swan”.  The Standard calls the play “powerful and funny”.

You can read more about The Memory of Water here on the play’s dedicated page, or at the Worcester Festival website’s event page.

A Humble gallery

by Site Admin on Saturday, August 9, 2008
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Online, STAC productions

The STAC website is abandoning its fancy “Flash” galleries in favour of a new, embedded thumbnail format.

(This option was made available by an upgrade to the content management system behind the scenes, and may be useful for users with lower resolutions, without Flash, or with slower connections.)

Humble Boy is the first play whose dedicated page sports a gallery in the new, simplified format, and somewhat belatedly the performance photos are now up!

Catch up!

by Site Admin on Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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STAC productions

Sincere apologies from the STAC website team, of one, for failure to keep up to date since the run-up to Humble Boy.

Their dedicated pages are not up yet, but there are two plays quickly approaching and already in rehearsals.  The Memory of Water is our Worcester Festival production, Tuesday 19th to Saturday 23rd August.  And Wilde’s famous The Importance of Being Earnest is due Tuesday 7th to Saturday 11th October.

More details coming soon.