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Pam Galle, producer
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in LILLIAN Directed by Marilyn Carter |
This one-woman touring production is a depiction of the iconoclast and author of The
Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, and Toys in the Attic. Widely
known for her life and thoughts, Lillian Hellman is identified inextricably with the political
consciousness of this country; in particular, with the political persecutions of the
McCarthy era and the House Un-American Activities Committee. The great woman of
letters relives her life while awaiting word on the health of Dashiell
Hammet, her life-long companion, in a New York hospital room, January 10, 1961. |
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performs The Gospel According to Saint Mark
directed by Marilyn Carter
Spring, 1997, at Spirit Square |
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Pam Galle Laurie Jaimeson
Tracy Terell
in Judy Simpson Cook's
directed by Marilyn Carter
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at Spirit Square
Set Design & Technical Direction
Light & Sound Design
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| In Cerulean Blues, the Henderson sisters -- Connie Francis, Brenda Lee, and Sandra D'Elvis
("What in heaven's name was Mama thinking of?") -- spend a weekend at the old family beach house, at
Connie's invitation, ostensibly to celebrate her fortieth birthday; but early on it's obvious there's an ulterior
agenda. Before it is revealed, the three catch up and reconnect; although they all live in the same large
southern city, they rarely cross paths. Brenda is a new mother, married to overbearing Ted Bishop, who's
pushing her to go back to work in advertising, but can't or won't change diapers; Dee, a self-obsessed
beauty queen, married wealthy attorney Jimbo Williams and lives in social style. Connie is an artist,
divorced mother of two, dissatisfied with her low-paying day job acquiring art for the city, and inspired by
her idealistic dream for the three of them. The way the other two respond, and her response to them,
uncover closet skeletons that evoke both tears and laughter. Judy Simpson Cook is one of Charlotte's quietest celebrities. Besides generating a formidable body of frequently-produced works that epitomize southern living (Country Songs, Earline, Nuptials, the local Christmas favorite, Retrieving the Lamb) and celebrate womanhood (Revolution Without Casualties [with Terry Bryan]; Appoggiatura and Gladys, one-character historic plays), she is highly regarded as a stage director, stage and film actor, and producer. In the early eighties, she co-founded and managed The North Carolina Stage Company, a pioneer in independent professional theatre to which Stage One is indebted, which in turn produced the first season of the popular Blowing Rock Summer Theatre; later she was instrumental in the salvation of the Golden Circle Theatre (now under the wing of Charlotte Repertory Theatre). Since then, as a talent representative for JTA, Inc., she has earned the love and respect of actors and producers from Hollywood to Wilmington, with a reputation for hard work, long hours, good cheer, honesty and fairness, wit and humor and, above all, the southern charm and grace that caused Cerulean Blues. |
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