“Fire in the Temple” February Update

The director and playwright have been tightening the script to make it a dynamic performance. Recent readings of the script in Copake, NY; Beaver Run, PA; Los Angeles; Santa Cruz; Sacramento; Boulder and Denver have drawn profound and encouraging responses and anticipation of the full production. 

And thanks to the kind generosity of many enthusiastic donors, we have already raised nearly $40,000, more than a third of what we need through donations, in order to inspire audiences, cover our expenses and modestly pay the performers. Can you help? We need a few more who can contribute $10,000, $20,000 or $30,000. Twelve people have already joined our $1,000 Club – with just twelve more we will reach our target of $24,000. And donations of any size can help us meet our remaining crowdfunding goal of $9,700.

Your financial gifts and your prayers are helping us to meet our projected budget of $125,600 and to bring this play to fruition. Please invite your friends to join us, and share this message with anyone you think might be interested. And please do consider joining the gracious and generous Debra Agee’s $1,000 Club*, if you haven’t already. 

Whether you give $20,000, $2,000, $200 or $20, your good will is essential in touching audiences’ hearts with this production. 

*Another meaningful way to participate is by joining Debra and Russell Agee in the $1000 Club.  According to Debra,”We are not able to fund the whole production, (as much as we might want to,) but we thought there might be others for whom $1000 is the sweet spot- a substantial contribution, yet it won’t break the bank! We have 11 new members., and would like to have another two dozen. If you can, please consider joining us…soon!!”

About

Anthropos presents inspiring, dynamic and portable stories for bookings in theaters, schools, churches and communities.

Through the arts of theater and storytelling, Anthropos (Άνθρωπος, the Greek word for human being) seeks to uphold and celebrate what is truly human.  Having been developing for many years, Anthropos received its name in 2010 to acknowledge the spirit of what Glen Williamson and his colleagues present and the impulse to create and perform stories and plays of unusual scope and humanity.

GLEN WILLIAMSON, a founding member in New York City of The Actors’ Ensemble and New Directions Theater, appeared in numerous productions with both companies. He currently plays multiple roles in the touring production of The Gospel of John with Walking the dog Theater and the title role in Aeschylus Unbound, which Glen co-wrote with the late film star Mala Powers.  He has given his one-man performances of Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story, The Incarnation of the Logos: An Epic Tale of Christ’s Coming to Earth, Kaspar Hauser: The Open Secret of the Foundling Prince, and Kurt Vonnegut’s The Kid Nobody Could Handle and Who Am I This Time? throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K, Germany and Switzerland and has toured throughout North America in The Refugees’ Tale, based on Goethe’s Green Snake parable, with Laurie Portocarrero. Glen’s performance of Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story won the award for Best Adaptation at the United Solo Theater Festival off-Broadway in 2011. The off-Broadway run of Glen’s one-man play The Boy Who Saw True was chosen by Back Stage as one of the five best plays of 1992.  Glen trained in the Michael Chekhov acting technique and at The Juilliard School and has acted with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the American Stage Festival in New Hampshire.  Other appearances include Macbeth with Shakespeare Alive!, Sylvia by A. R. Gurney, Rudolf Steiner’s The Souls’ Awakening at the Goetheanum in Switzerland, storytelling with the Grupo de Euritmia de São Paulo in San Diego, and speaking poetry in a Camphill benefit concert at Carnegie Hall.

LAURIE PORTOCARRERO trained in the Chekhov method under Fern Sloan and Ted Pugh in 1995, and studied speech, movement and drama in the US, Switzerland and Australia. She is a long-time member of The Actors’ Ensemble and Walking the dog Theater, appearing in many of their productions. Most recently she has been seen in The Little Prince, Under MilkWood, and Rudolf Steiner’s The Portal of Initiation. Laurie tours the United States and Canada in Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, Aeschylus Unbound, and the widely acclaimed The Gospel of John. She directs a summer program for children, Drama for the Little Folk and the Middle Folk, teaches adult workshops, and offers drama to special needs adults in New York’s Hudson Valley. Laurie is Waldorf-educated, holds a BA in Theatre Arts, and also trained at Sunbridge College and Rudolf Steiner College.

Performances

Fire in the Temple

The Antichrist

Incarnation of the Logos

An epic tale of Christ’s coming to earth. The story of Jesus’ birth, childhood and youth, as you’ve never heard it before. A Christmas tradition in several communities.

Beat the Devil! (Faust, the whole story)

Beat the Devil! (Faust, the whole story)

An exhilarating romp through Goethe’s theatrical masterpiece about heaven, hell and a battle for the soul of a man searching for the truth, satisfaction … and a Goddess.

Kaspar Hauser

A true story of an innocent boy imprisoned for most of his childhood.

Vonnegut, Vonnegut!

Two stories by Kurt Vonnegut

Aeschylus Unbound

A new historical play about mysterious ancient rituals, world-shaking battles and a warrior poet on trial for his life. By Mala Powers and Glen Williamson

Early performances by Anthropos Theater: The Gospel of John; and, The Mystery Journey of Johannes and Maria