Dog Sees God
Short Comings
Directed by Ami Sallee Corley and Chris Rutherford
Apr. 11 – 14, 2008
Fri. – Sat. 11 pm, Sun. – Mon. 8pm
Tickets: Apr. 11 is a pass-the-hat preview.
All other nights $5 at the door. FREE for Jobsite Season Ticket holders.
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Jobsite Theater proudly presents their second Job-side Project of 2008, Short Comings, a collection of short plays and music featuring Tom Stoppard’s The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, Candice Benge’s Clown and Dancer and Listeners and original music by Justin Duggan. Christopher Rutherford directs The Fifteen Minute Hamlet and Listeners. Ami Sallee Corley directs Clown and Dancer.
Short Comings was born out of both Corley’s and Rutherford’s shared interest in generating challenging and diverse work for local actors, as well as enlightening entertainment for Tampa’s growing theatre audience.
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The three short scripts were carefully chosen. The Fifteen Minute Hamlet became increasingly relevant after Studio 620, American Stage and Jobsite all chose plays revolving around Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Consider it a lighthearted homage. Rutherford introduced Dallas playwright Candice Benge’s into the mix, allowing them to expand the artistic opportunity to writers as well as actors. Clown and Dancer is the story of a clown and an exotic dancer in a domestic situation. Listeners offers a creative spin on the communication breakdown between government and journalists.
Short Comings is a Job-side Project as part of Jobsite Theater’s Ensemble Program. Jobsite Theater is committed to continually cultivating Bay area talent and developing a true artistic home in the region for artists of all disciplines. Previous Job-side Projects have included The House of Yes, See Bob Run and most recently Bondage – also directed by Corley. All proceeds go directly to the artists involved with the process.
Age recommendation: for mature audiences only.
About the Artists
The project is produced and directed by Ami Sallee Corley and Christopher Rutherford. Corley has been in the Tampa Bay theater scene since 1996 and has performed and/or directed for Jobsite Theater (Joe Popp’s Maxwell and Cloud Nine, respectively), American Stage (Romeo and Juliet, Mere Mortals), Gorilla Theater (Bug, Jane Eyre) and TheaterUSF (Dancing at Lughnasa, Vinegar Tom). She has been awarded Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay Best actress (2007) and Best Director (2003).
Rutherford, who grew up in Tampa has recently returned to a successful tour of the local theaters. Audiences have seen his work at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center (Jewtopia), Gorilla Theatre (Rag and Bone), American Stage (Hamlet) and can look forward to seeing him in Hat Trick’s Burn This and Jobsite’s Embedded this summer.
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