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19-Dec-2022 Alastair Norcross

15 Midwinter's Revels Celebration

Boulder, CO

I took this during the dress rehearsal for a show that I help put on every year (I write, direct, and act in it), called the Midwinter's Revels. It has a different cultural theme each year. This year, it's a French Canadian story of voyageurs (fur trappers) who make a deal with the Devil to borrow his flying canoe to get back home in time for the New Year's party. Of course, the Devil specifies conditions (being back by midnight, no swearing, no drinking) which must be met in order for their souls not to be forfeit. They break all the conditions, but the local priest bets the devil that he can't beat a villager in a dance contest, and, this being a family show, the devil loses, and our intrepid voyageurs get to keep their souls!

Canon EOS R ,Canon RF 50mm F1.8 STM
1/250s f/2.2 at 50.0mm iso3200 hide exif
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Date/Time19-Dec-2022 19:29:10
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Canon Image Challenge24-Dec-2022 02:20
I am a bit surprised that there is not one in Tucson. We have a number of theaters and the University of Arizona which has a good arts department. Minneapolis could support one as well, although the last I looked MSP had more seats per capita than anybody except NY.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge23-Dec-2022 17:16
I forgot to add, there's a Revels company in Houston too. That's actually where we first came across it. We went to their show one year when we were living in Houston (I taught at Rice, before moving to Colorado).
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge23-Dec-2022 17:14
Thanks Traveller and Jim. Our Revels company is actually one of nine around the country, and pretty much the smallest. It was founded in Cambridge (MA) fifty years ago, and the Cambridge show is the biggest (we call it "The Mothership"). Each company picks its own theme each year, but we share scripts, and do variations of each other's shows. Three years ago, my wife and I wrote a completely new show, centering on Shakespeare and all his characters coming to life to persuade him not to burn all his plays. This year's show (the flying canoe story) has been done by at least a few of the other companies over the years, but it's our first time doing it. I rewrote the script extensively (about 60% changed), and completely rewrote the Mummers play (which is an element of pretty much all the shows), to include some distinctively French and French Canadian characters (like Dudley Do-Wrong, a mountie who never gets his man, the flamboyant singer Celine Dijon, who carries a large pot of Grey Poupon mustard, and a quack doctor dressed as Napoleon).
There are two Revels companies in California, the Santa Barbara Revels, and the California Revels, which is in Oakland. There's also one in Portland, one in Puget Sound, one in Washington DC, and one in Dartmouth (NH), as well as our little Rocky Mountain Revels and the big one in Cambridge. None in Arizona, I'm afraid, but we will be having our annual Revels Directors' conference in Scottsdale this February.
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge23-Dec-2022 02:25
I agree with T. What fun, and congratulations on the many ways you contribute to the play.
Merry Christmas,

Jim
Traveller22-Dec-2022 21:37
I absolutely love this! I also particularly like the summary of the plot, what fun! I have a certain admiration of you. Truly...Merry Christmas, Traveller