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Anima (Her Soul)
by Amelia P. Rosselli
Translated by Natalia Costa-Zalessow
Adapted & Directed by Becca Westbrook
Mary Baldwin Shakespeare & Performance
February 2025
Cast
Olga De Velaris Joan Raube-Wilson
Silvio Vettori Grayson Whitaker Fulp
Giorgio Mauri Dennis Colin Graham
Graziana Mauri, Marquis Bei Megan Parlett
Teresa Mauri, Count Lorenzi Elle Lewis-Eme
Marietta, Salvelli, Ferrandi Maggie Lengerich
Production Team
Assistant Director
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Set Designer
Music Director
Music Assistant
Costume Designer
Costume Assistant
Dramaturg
Intimacy Director
Publicity/Marketing
Olga De Velaris painting Marietta. Photo by Ariel Tatum
"Just as the Academy froths at the mouth whenever anyone makes a movie about movies, I have been so excited to review Becca Westbrook’s production of Amelia P. Rosselli’s Anima, or Her Soul, because, at its core, it is a play about reviewing and judgment, of art, yes, but also of character... Westbrook’s direction focused on something I admittedly am a novice in: devising. Olga’s paintings were more than just what fueled her soul, they were also the main vocabulary for the staging. Characters stood behind empty picture frames, posing as if for a portrait, and would only move when their character was set to enter."
Analise Toone
Tommy Hegarty
Xueyun Zhang
Brooke Crittenden
Joan Raube-Wilson
Megan Parlett
Hailey Pearce
Maggie Lengerich
Megan Parlett
D. Scarlet Darling
Maggie Lengerich
Photos by Ariel Tatum
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Adapted & Directed by Becca Westbrook and Megan Parlett
Mary Baldwin Shakespeare & Performance
May 2024
Set Design - Brooke Crittenden
Fights & Props - Gray Casterline
Music Director - Joan Raube-Wilson
Pub/Mark - M. Finch
Intimacy - Matthias Bolon
Hair, Makeup, Movement - Aubree J. Gray
Costume Design - D. Scarlet Frishman
Stage Manager - Hailey Pearce
Dramaturg - Tommy Hegarty
Photos by Ethan Goodmansen
"The Forest of Arden is many things to many people: a place of work, a place to waste one’s time, a place of fear. But for Megan Parlett and Becca Westbrook’s production starring the MBU Shakespeare & Performance first years, it was more than anything else a place of refuge and community. By reimagining the sprawling pastoral Forest of Shakespeare as a queer-friendly bar in 90s America, the production reversed the usual movement from court to country and instead found liberation in the confined walls of a single small sanctuary from the outside world, whose inhabitants rubbed shoulders closely with one another and were able to, as the song told us, express themselves."
- Dr. Peter Kirwan, The Bardathon. Embedded Critic.
Cast
Adam - Gray Casterline
Orlando - Grayson Whitaker Fulp
Oliver, Jaques - Joan Raube-Wilson
Charles, Silvius - Jake Raiter
Rosalind - D. Scarlet Frishman
Celia - Brooke Crittenden
Touchstone - Louis Altman
Amiens, Corin, etc. - Aubree J. Gray
Duke Senior, etc. - Dennis Colin Graham
Lord, Phoebe - Emily Bassett
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