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By Jenny Lyn Bader
Turn To Flesh Productions, Workshop Theatre
My experience as a director is split between new plays and classical verse. Jenny Lyn Bader’s In Flight, a new play in rhyming couplets, offered an amazing opportunity to unite these two seemingly disparate sides of my work. Set in the present day office of the editor of an in-flight airline magazine, the play achieves a remarkable balance between contemporary subject matter and heightened, classical style. My challenge for the production was to find a tone that supported that balance. My goal was to make the experience so satisfying that no one in the audience would want to ask, “But why is it written in verse?”
Cast: Rajesh Bose, Lynnette R. Freeman, Ginger Grace, Drew Ledbetter, Danielle O’Farrell, Jackson Thompson
Designers: Elli Engstrom, Iris McElroy, Chelsie McPhilimy, Nicole Slaven
"The new production of In Flight by Jenny Lyn Bader at first was like watching an adult version of Dr. Seuss. Then I realized the exquisite wording, which was more like a restoration comedy or Shakespeare. It was prolific and so clever going places you did not expect the rhyming couplets to go. The poetry makes the characters and their dilemma’s jump off into full throttle."
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