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shows. “Even if someone doesn’t nervously stares into the spot receive a show well, as long as it’s shining on the small stage. “I provoking questions, it’s done what suppose you’d like me to sit down?” we came to accomplish,” says Berlin he asks. Schlegel, who played Richard Loeb in The audience—a blend of races, Thrill Me. genders and ages rarely found in You enter Good Company’s Utah—portray a parole board that is 1,500-square-foot space through the passing judgment on Morris’s back of its 25th Street building, up the character, Nathan Leopold. The parole stairs from Jack-N-Jill’s novelty shop. hearing will transform into a sadistic Alicia says the small space allows the recounting of how audience to help he and his lover shape the Richard Loeb performances. “You planned to murder a have a confined child for the thrill of energy, and it’s it. Thrill Me, which shared with the Ogden’s Good actors Company Theatre immediately.” staged last Apart from February, explores what’s on stage, how love and Good Company is delusions of as good as its name. superiority can lead Alicia smiles wide people to perform as she hands horrific acts. patrons programs, Thrill Me is also a Camille cracks a perfect example of joke as she hands what the Good out a beverage and theater looks for in the actors gather –RUSS ADAMS a play. after the show to Sisters Camille chat about their and Alicia Washington co-direct the characters’ motivations. nonprofit theater, gaining buzz for Alicia typically handles artistic plays that raise the bar for arts in matters, while Camille manages the Ogden, whether it’s a thoughtbusiness side. “We joke that she’s on provoking production or something no stage and I’m behind the scenes,” other company in the area is doing. “I Camille says. Like their actors, the don’t feel like theater needs to knock sisters survive through day jobs. you over the head with a message, but Alicia is a property manager and just present questions, be engaging Camille works in medical billing. and allow you to let it simmer after the “Good Company is on my mind 24/7. show,” Alicia says. “Theater should stay I tell people my day really starts at with you longer than the final bows.” 5 p.m.,” Alicia says. Good Company’s still-simmering “They’ve got all kinds of creative plays include David Mamet’s Race, ways of using that small space,” says which tackles racial and sexual Russ Adams, Ogden City Arts politics, and Mark St. Germain’s Advisory Council member who Freud’s Last Session, which raises portrayed a cop questioning Leopold religious questions. The theater also in Thrill Me. “You’d really be missing hosts annual showings of Eve Ensler’s out on the arts scene if you didn’t know The Vagina Monologues and drag what Good Company was doing.”
YOU’D REALLY BE MISSING OUT ON THE ARTS SCENE IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHAT GOOD COMPANY WAS DOING.
NOW PLAYING In July, Good Company will premier It’s a Two-Bit Town, written by Salt Lake real estate agent Babs De Lay. The melodrama chronicles Ogden’s sordid history. “It’s nice to look back through where the city’s been and how those things relate to what’s happening now,” Camille says. In August, the theater will stage Jim Christian’s Pirated! a family-friendly production set during the introduction of talking films. In October, Jennifer Haley’s The Nether is set in the future and explores the dangers of virtual environments. Find tickets and more information at goodcotheatre.com.
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