Class A Runner-Up - Ellsworth Regional Drama Festival
All Festival Cast
Isabelle Peterson
Evangeline Meister
Special Commendations
Grace Weed - "Mother Money" Song Composition, Sound Design and Operation
Isa Raven, Abigail Kimball and Aidan Fisichella - Video Design
Cayla Swanberg - Lighting Design and Operation
Ensemble Acting Award
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MDI Drama's entry in the 2024 one act competition is "Interview: A Fugue for Eight Actors" written by avant-garde playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie and directed by Casey Rush. "Interview" premiered in 1966 as part of the America Hurrah trilogy, widely hailed as the watershed play of the sixties. This short play is at turns absurd, hilarious, and unsettling. In what one critic calls a "Hurricane of Horror," four jobseekers are ricocheted through ludicrous job interviews, chilly urban parties, and coffin-like subways as they search for human compassion. "Interview"'s stark reflection on modern technology, bureaucracy, social institutions, and war in the 1960s proves eerily relevant fifty years later.
Performances:
Black Rose Performance: Wednesday, March 20 @ 7:00 PM
Please contact Mr. Rush at crush@mdirss.org if you have any questions.
The Behavioral Replication and Integration Node (BRaIN)
A scene from MDI Drama's 2013 production of "Interview, A Fugue for Eight Actors" by Jean-Claude Van Itallie. MDI Drama's production finished third at Maine State Finals held in Freeport. More information is available here. Photo: Chris Dougherty.
Copy of MDI HS Program.docxFugue and Jean-Claude van Itallie’s Interview .pdfVsevolod Meyerhold’s Biomechanics.pdf