A-B Tech Drama Club Ready to Shake Some Boots
October 7, 2009
A-B Tech and its Drama Club announce performance dates for the company's ninth production, Skeered??, an evening of ghost stories and hauntings with a local twist. The production is directed by Peter Carver and David Novak and designed by Laura Chaney. Performances will be held:
Jack Werner and Brandon Dark are featured in the A-B Tech Drama Club production of Skeered with performances Oct. 22-24 and 29-31. Photo by Roxy Taylor.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 22-24 at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday and Friday, October 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 31, 2:30 p.m.
Carriage House Theatre (behind the Fernihurst mansion)
$3 A-B Tech students and staff, $5 area students with ID, $10 adults
For reservations and information, contact pcarver@abtech.edu or call 254-1921, ext. 890
Skeered?? is a storytelling project that combines classic technique with local anomalies. Hear a jack tale, haints and the truth about such local haunts as Helen's Bridge, the Brown Mountain Lights and the Pink Lady at the Grove Park Inn. The student cast features
Brandon Dark, Amelie Delaunay-Vandal, Naomi Dunn, Danie Easter, Kathy Gordon, Karen Parton, Jordan Pfluger, Lauren Racer, Peter Smith-McDowell and Jack Werner.
The Carriage House Theatre is an ideal location for ghost stories. The striking building was erected by Mr. and Mrs. John Curran in 1933 as a garage for "Viewmont," their name for the remodeled colonial Fernihurst mansion. The adjacent Fernihust mansion is known to be haunted with the ghost of Mary Connely. Now a small theatre complex, the carriage house features a 35-seat black box theatre/classroom in what was once the garage. The second floor, originally the gardener's apartment, now houses a green room/design classroom, a costume shop, and two offices. The aesthetic highlight is the original garage door on the south side of the building. A cupola and weathervane top the newly remodeled exterior.
The A-B Tech Drama Club was founded in 2003 to encourage students to participate in drama at the community's college. Drama is growing at A-B Tech, and such classes as Acting I and II, Acting for the Camera, Storytelling, Stagecraft, Play Production, Readers Theatre, and Stage Makeup are now staples in the curriculum. A-B Tech Drama produced its first play, The Boys Next Door, at Asheville High School in December 2004.
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