by Terry Weber | Apr 11, 2013 | Featured, MainStage Wing
by Terry Weber In a couple of weeks, The WordPlayers will embark on rehearsals for YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN. Excitement abounds. The director, music director, and designers have all been working enthusiastically and are chomping at the supper bowl (a little...
by Terry Weber | Apr 5, 2013 | Featured
A Credo for Christian Actors by Terry Weber With thanks to and based on the suggestions of Prof. Dan Buck at Lee University, The WordPlayers’ company recently adopted the following credo: We believe that glorifying God through our art requires diligent care of our...
by Terry Weber | Mar 29, 2013 | Featured
Jesus’ Mandate By Terry Weber Those of us in The WordPlayers like words. We play with words. Sometimes, in cases when we dramatize parts of the Bible, we even play the Word. During our recent Word-a-thon, we read the Word, the entire Bible, straight through from...
by Joe Jaynes | Mar 21, 2013 | Featured, MainStage Wing
Unfinished Business of the Committee by Gabe Potter By curtain fall, The God Committee wrapped up a lot of disparate storylines very nicely. If only it had left me with the same sense of resolution. Instead, it opened up all manner of disturbing questions: How dare I...
by Joe Jaynes | Mar 15, 2013 | Featured, MainStage Wing
Reflections on The God Committee Father Dunbar has continually evolved in my mind since the first time I read the play. Like most performers, I mentally catalogued much of my character and thought I knew who he was and where he was going. Then as rehearsals began,...
by Terry Weber | Mar 8, 2013 | Featured, MainStage Wing
A Note from the director of The God Committee One of the reasons I am so drawn to live theatre is the ability it has to let us closely experience the kinds of situations we otherwise might never get to see. Most of us do not have to make the kinds of decisions...
