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A New Kind of Theatre Experience |
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RACING THE MOON (Oct., 2005) premiered LFTC’s “Westering” series, as Elsbeth Westering & niece Daisy set off in 1921 in their Pierce Arrow touring car to experience NM’s vivid land-scapes, quaint natives, romantic cowboys, & eccentric art colonies. A wild & witty observation on the last gasp of the Frontier, with Eastern Society & Art adopting the Wild West. London Frontier continues to present a further variety of plays from original scripts, ensemble work, history & legend, & adaptations of literary classics & contemporary writings, incorporating the area’s vivid multi-culture to create exciting, entertaining theatre. |
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London Frontier is leaping into the New Year – our thirteenth season in Magdalena, NM! – with a February presentation of YOU MIGHT AS WELL LIVE!, Dorothy Parker’s witty, bittersweet – and wildly funny – prose and poetry, staged with “New Mexico style” and presented as a Valentine tribute to the eternal game of love. 2007 was creative and innovative, often frantic and sometimes desperate, but always delightful to see in our audiences familiar attendees of countless shows and new faces from ever-wider geographic locations. The season opened in March with NEW LIFE ON LOST WIFE CREEK; in April, LFTC sponsored FORTY YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM & VIDEO, an eclectic sampling of LFTC videographer Michael Mideke’s work. July’s DOWN & OUT DIARY combined stage, video, and live music to create a saga of settlement and survival, tragedy and triumph, on the frontier. In October, we returned to 1930's NM for DARK MOON OVER LOST WIFE CREEK. December’s COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, JESSEE was reviewed as “tender and evocative” of memories awakened by the holiday season. We enjoyed our first full year in our own home, Magdalena's historic (1936) WPA gym, now the “WPA Theatre”, which we were able to purchase in 2006 with a USDA “Community Facilities” grant, a loan from NM Community Development Loan Fund, help from Magdalena Schools and from local teacher/columnist Jack Fairweather, plus generous donations from our “Friends of the Theatre.” In the coming year, we hope to start renovation on this grand old building, improving acoustics (hear as well as see a play), seating and heating (with gratitude for faithful attendees who’ve arrived with blankets and cushions), and display areas for local art and crafts. Again, we’ve had amazing support from local, state-wide, and out-of-state audiences, many of whom attend every show; from “Friends of the Theatre”, who contribute not only cash but goods, raffle items, and services: Web hosting (ProAccess, Inc.), costumes, props (The Market Place), fine photos (La Luz Photography) and promotion; NM Legislator Don Tripp, our grantors: the Kerr Foundation, Socorro Electric Coop; and last but never least, the press: Pengwen Prods./ Steppin’ Out, El Defensor-Chieftain, and The Mountain Mail. Heartfelt thanks to all who’ve supported us not only with donations but with attendance, comments, and encouraging words, giving us the impetus and courage – often in dire circumstance, always in the antic madness that is theatre production – to continue creating and presenting plays. It’s your theatre, too. Join us in 2008, as LFTC again offers four (or more) productions created from our area’s unique multi-culture, history, and legend. We want to continue preserving New Mexico's past and giving to its future. But to do so, we need the help of FRIENDS. Become a Member of Friends of the Theatre “Care and feeding” of our venue - loan repayment, heat, lighting, insurance - is vital; your contributions help insure its maintenance and improvement. We'll gradually renovate, with care for historical features, audience comfort, and better presentational qualities: improved heating/cooling, acoustics and sight-lines, installation of our 1920's/30's theatre seats, and a lobby displaying works of local artists. We'll make the space available to other organizations for performances, art shows, music, videos/films, story-telling, and meetings, creating a performance-and-arts center for the area. What does it mean, to be a FRIEND of the THEATRE? (Besides our eternal gratitude, and a tax deduction?) Each FRIEND will have their name/business name on a plaque in the theatre, and we proudly list you in our programs and on our Website – view a list of our FRIENDS. Any FRIEND who buys two adult tickets for a performance will be given a third ticket free. And there will be a yearly Gala for FRIENDS (May, 2007, was the first: an “It’s Ours!/Cinco de Mayo celebration): food and entertainment, a chance to tell us what you’ve liked/disliked (get fed for being a critic!) and to make suggestions for future plays. Celebrate with us; it’s your theatre, too! Donna Todd, Director, LFTC London Frontier Theatre A SPECIAL THANKS to our FRIENDS
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