CCC Theater will present The Real Inspector Hound November 8th, 9th, and 10th at 7pm. Director Chris Gates is trying something new in presenting Hound in the Round. “Theater in the Round or arena seating will add a new element to the production, which is a style that has yet to grace the Central Stage,” said Gates. In arena seating the audience is on all four sides. This allows the actors to really push themselves, and experience the challenge of working all sides of the stage. The cast is both excited about and nervous at the opportunity to be that close to their audience. “I told my family they have to sit in the back, because it would mess me up to see them in the front,” said one actor.
Sir Tom Stoppard is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love and has won one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.
“Christie's Mousetrap is formulaic. Hound mocks the formula. The play starts with a stage empty of actors except for the corpse.... It is not a whodunit--it is about whodunits and also about the petty jealousies of the second strings, the understudies, the seconds in command and their desire to do away with those who block their way. They watch each other as we watch them.... The barriers between theatre and stage audience dissolve and the distinction between the real and the fictional disappears.” TERRY HODGSON, The Plays of Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love and has won one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.
“Christie's Mousetrap is formulaic. Hound mocks the formula. The play starts with a stage empty of actors except for the corpse.... It is not a whodunit--it is about whodunits and also about the petty jealousies of the second strings, the understudies, the seconds in command and their desire to do away with those who block their way. They watch each other as we watch them.... The barriers between theatre and stage audience dissolve and the distinction between the real and the fictional disappears.” TERRY HODGSON, The Plays of Tom Stoppard