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| A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennesse Williams
Directed by Dawn Youngs
Lorain County Community College
October 24th, 25th & 26th 2008
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This production was staged in the Studio Theater at Lorain County Community College. The studio theater is a flexible blackbox theater, and we ended up creating a thrust set with the audience occupying the corner and two sides of the space. The initial concept of our design was to recreate the memory of this story as seen in the mind of Blanche DuBois. The set was fragmentary, parts of it in sharp focus with realistic detail, other parts of the set simply disapear, break off into nothingness. The sound and lighting designed continued this motif, combining both realistic and supernatural dream-like elements.
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The Tragedie of Macbeth
A Dagger of the Mind
by William Shakespeare
adapted and directed by Dawn Youngs
The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival
Fall 2005
Using only the words of Shakespeare's text, I created a 60 minute five actor exploration of The Tragedie of Macbeth. The concept and rules of my adaptation were simple. The Concept: Macbeth and his Wife are in hell, damned to relive the events of their downfall, as enacted by three demons (our three witches). The rules: I must maintain iambic pentameter, only scenes with MacBeth and Lady Macbeth are included, there can only be five characters on stage at any time. The resulting production was a blend of expressionist movement based theater and classic language poerty.
I can't wait to put this piece on its feet again. I look forward to seeing what a new cast and design team will bring to the process.
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| Macbeth Murders Sleep |
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| Dawn and Dramaturg Erik Ramsey working on Demon Holler |
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WordBRIDGE Playwright's Laboratory
Demon Holler
by Nathan Warren Lanedirected by Dawn YoungsWordBRIDGE 2008
In June 2008, Dawn worked with dramaturg Erik Ramsey and Kennedy Center American College Theater Festical Playwright-in-Residence Nathan Warren Lane on Demon Holler.
Demon Holler explores the plagues of humanity (war, intolerance, and self-destruction) by using an actual demon as representation. Set in a cabin in the romote Ozark Mountians, we discover an evil force held captive there for centuries.
For more information on WordBRIDGE and the playwrights visit:
http://www.wordbridge.org/
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The WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory
Elephants Graveyard
by George Brandt
directed by Dawn Youngs
For the 2007 season at WordBRDIGE, I worked with UT Austin playwright George Brandt on his epic telling of the lynching of an elephant in rural America. George's play explores issues of justice and human nature through the voices of the town and the circus whose visit sparked this dramatic event. During the curcus parade, the lead elephant, riden by an eager but inexperienced new member of the circus family, departs from the planned route to pursue a melon left in the street. The rider attempts to violently whip the animal back into formation and away from the tasty treat. The elephant replies in turn, removing the rider from his mount and stomping on his head. Some might argue that the man got what he deserved, but the crowd was horrified and rose as a mob to demand the death of the offending animal. The portrait painted by George's words as we follow this tale to its grisly conclusions calls into question man's place in the order of nature.
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| Stephen Moore at the WordBRIDGE reading of Elephant's Graveyard |
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| Alice spots the White Rabbit in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
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| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
adapted by David White
directed by Dawn Youngs
The Beck Center for the Arts
October 26th, 27th & 28th 2007
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This original adaptation, commisioned by The Beck Center for the Arts' Theater Education Department, featured nearly forty students ages 6 to 18 in the Mackey Main Stage Theater.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
adapted and directed by Dawn Youngs
The Beck Center for the Arts
March 2007
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| Oberon and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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This one act adaptation from the first folio featured actors from the Beck Center's Teen Theater program.
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| The Queen tries to find a way to foil the pesky Princess Fred in this musical version of The Princess and The Pea. |
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| Once Upon a Mattress
Written By: Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller & Marshall Barer
Music By: Mary Rodgers
Lyrics By: Marshall Barer
Directed by Dawn Youngs
Musical Direction by Douglas Collier
Choreography by Megan Pitcher
The Beck Center for the Arts
Mackey Main Stage
May 2006
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