Show The Black Box takes on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Ani Arakelian in Editor The Twelfth Night is coming t to Salt Lake Community Colleges College's Black Box Theatre this April Frank Gerrish Assistant Professor and the production director is excited to be doing a comedy He has gathered a cast and crew of SL C students faculty and staff as well as actors from the community The play will not be done in traditional Shakespearian costume It instead will be bein bein bein in early twentieth century costume or as Gerrish put it Circa Titanic Its location which is traditionally near water is the Caribbean There is no such thing as a Shakespeare way to todo todo todo do it A lot of people do it within two hundred years of Shakespeare but that is three different eras there is this misnomer that there is a way to do Shakespeare said Gerrish When I do Shakespeare I try to put it itin itin itin in a place where people can understand it it Another thing that has some changes is the music Gerrish says The Hie Twelfth Night features more music than any other Shakespeare play There are no melodies so I said what can I do to tomake tomake tomake make this effective to the audience So what I have done is substituted classic folk songs like City of Ne New v Orleans some Bob Dylan and a couple of jazz standards My funny Valentine Because I feel thoughts are the songs that capture the essence of the relationship in the moment said Gerrish This is a nostalgic time for Gerrish and his cast and crew This is the last play in the current Black Box Theatre which is the size of ofa a classroom This summer work will begin on a new space for the theatre as part of the plans for the Center for New Media We are going to be going from a forty-five forty seat theatre to a hundred and ten seats said Gerrish Tickets are free to students 5 for faculty I tIL i p Mah l olio played by Tim Maness is give Viola Cesario played by Susan Barry a ring staff and 10 for the public Tickets can be purchased at The Grand Theatre box office The Twelfth Night will be running April 8 24 at pm p.m. The Black Box Theatre is located at South City Campus 1575 S. S State St. St in S alt Lake Lak City Photos by Ani Arakelian i I I Ati At- At i Feste played by Tom is hold I I a letter away from I I Fabian played by Mike Hardy |