Freed Heart to open 2022-2023 season with ‘Julius Caesar’

September 16, 2022

The Freed Heart for the Performing Arts at Ohio Northern College (ONU) is happy to launch its full slate of theatre, dance and music occasions for the 2022-2023 season, beginning with Julius Caesar on Sept. 29.

Tickets for all performances are actually obtainable for buy by means of the 4, eight or 12 versatile subscription packages that enable patrons to construct their season subscription the way in which they need it, and save as much as 20% off single ticket costs. Subscription package deal tickets could be distributed throughout a number of reveals in any approach and at any time.

Single tickets can be found for buy roughly six weeks prior to every occasion. Single tickets presently on sale embody Julius Caesar and Swing! with the annual ONU Vacation Spectacular happening sale on Oct. 3.
Subscription packages and single tickets could be bought on-line at www.FreedCenter.com, by cellphone at 419-772-1900 or in particular person on the Freed Heart Field Workplace, Monday by means of Friday, 12 p.m. to five p.m.

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The season opens on Thursday, Sept. 29 with Shakespeare’s epic political tragedy of Julius Caesar staged within the intimacy of the Stambaugh Studio Theatre with 7:30 p.m. performances Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, and a couple of p.m. matinees Oct. 1 and a couple of.

Making his directing debut at ONU, Assistant Professor of Theatre James Savage, Jr., explains his method to the play starting with the “perception that artwork makes us suppose and, at its finest, creates dialogue.” That is evident with Julius Caesar, a timeless play that audiences nonetheless discover fascinating.

Savage describes the play’s similarities to our present society, which led to his directorial imaginative and prescient, saying, “Taking a look at our personal modern political local weather we are able to see the putting relevancy. To this finish, I needed this manufacturing to have a contemporary really feel, however felt the necessity to shrink back from a up to date illustration as a approach for the viewers to seek out their very own parallels between the play and present occasions. I additionally needed to discover a method to embody the viewers, to ‘really feel’ the world of the play by creating an environment riddled with anxiousness and angst. This led me to discover the theme of punk rock.”

Savage is a educated Meisner actor and an authorized trainer of the Michael Chekhov Approach with the Nice Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. He has carried out Off Broadway, regionally and internationally. His New York Metropolis performing highlights embody Henry V, Richard II, Hamlet (American Globe Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (The Wild Challenge), Tape (Duel Theatre Firm), Doubt, Everyman, Homicide within the Cathedral (Black Orchid Theatre) and Your Warfare’strive Grave (La MaMa). His regional performing credit embody Julius Caesar (Nice Lakes Theatre Pageant, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Pageant), The Sweepers (Ensemble Theatre at The Cleveland Playhouse), Six Levels of Separation (Charenton Theatre), Boy Will get Lady (Beck Heart for the Arts). He additionally carried out and co-created 8×10, a solo present about solitary confinement within the U.S. jail system, and performed Odysseus in The Odyssey on the Hydrama Theatre on the island of Hydra in Greece.

As a director and struggle director, Savage has labored for each academic {and professional} establishments round NYC. Along with performing and directing, James has additionally taught at varied faculties in and round NYC together with The New Faculty for Drama, the New York Movie Academy and NYU Steinhardt.

ONU musical theatre and theatre majors painting varied Roman characters that includes 9 seniors together with Garrett Fant (Hilliard) as Caesar, Hannah Enciso (Romeo, MI) as Antony, Caleb Jingo (Westerville) as Brutus, Juliana Tate Kelly (Cleveland) as Cassius, Camryn Lamontagne (Austin, TX) as Decius, Dani Miller (Charlotsville, VA) as Trebonious, Gabrielle Sophia Mouch (Cincinnati) as Flavius, Elena Rosales (Frisco, TX) as Metellus and Reagan Curry (Pittsburgh, PA) as Calpurnia. Junior solid members embody Nicholas Beiser (Cleveland) as Casca, Grant Bell (Brunswick) as Marullus, Molly Beth Blanchard (Baton Rouge, LS) as Portia, Morgan Francis (Austin, TX) as Cinna and Selah Schertz as Lucius. Three sophomores, Ross Fogle (Eaton), Andrew Holdsworth (Parma Heights) and CJ Miller (Findlay) seem as Lepidus, Octavius and Claudius, respectively.
The visitor artists who helped convey this modern staging to life embody struggle and intimacy director Alexis Black, who’s Assistant Professor of Motion and Stage Fight at Michigan State College; scenic designer Kenneth M. Ellis, proprietor of DogAndPonyShow Enterprises LLC; lighting designer Dustin Druckman from ITA Audio Video Options; and graffiti artist Nathaniel Runkle “Runk” because the scenic artist.

ONU employees members on the manufacturing group include Brian Sage as producer; costume store supervisor and resident costume designer Ameera Ansari; Kathleen E. DeVault, sound designer and manufacturing supervisor; Brian Phillips, technical director; and Elynmarie Kazle, stage supervisor mentor. ONU college students on the manufacturing employees embody seniors Ren Cassidy (Van Wert) as assistant lighting designer, scenic painters Rachel Boyle (Morrow) Abby DeLong (Wapakoneta), props grasp Levi Dubach (Ashtabula), assistant stage supervisor Ben Schneider (Wapakoneta), and Kyra Hanes (Dublin) as costume crew; junior  Isabelle Rowe (Cincinnati) is the dramaturg; and sophomores Jared Hoshaw (Northville, MI) and Tarrah BeVier (Johnstown) function stage supervisor and assistant stage supervisor, respectively.

The 2022-2023 Season for the Freed Heart for the Performing Arts continues with the next occasions:

Oct. 22-23: Swing!, the Authentic Broadway music and dance present
Oct. 30: BAND-O-RAMA that includes the ONU Marching Band
Nov. 17-19: The ONU Vacation Spectacular at The Freed Heart for the Performing Arts
Dec. 2-4: The ONU Vacation Spectacular at Veterans Memorial Civic and Conference Heart (Lima)
Dec. 8: ONU Chamber Winds Live performance
Feb. 11-12: Impulse, ONU Spring Dance Live performance
March 2-5: Anne of Inexperienced Gables, The Musical
March 25: ONU Symphonic Band Live performance
April 1-2: Worldwide Play Pageant: The Center East
April 27-30: The Addams Household, A Musical Comedy
Could 7: Spring Band Pageant at ONU
Could 12: ONU Chamber Orchestra Live performance

For extra details about the Freed Heart and its 2022-2023 Season, go to www.FreedCenter.com or name the Field Workplace at 419-772-1900 to obtain a season brochure.