Experiment Review
Allison DuVoe
Issue date: 4/20/09 Section: Opinion
Integrator Staff, I wanted to write to make some corrections to your article on Clarkson Theatre Company's production of An Experiment with an Air Pump. We appreciated the praise from Alicia but wanted to set a few facts straight about the show for those who saw it. First, our director was Tony Tambasco, not Tombasco, and his majors at SUNY Potsdam were Theatre and English. He graduated in 2002 and has been a member of the Clarkson Theatre Company since 2003, directing several shows for CTC.
The reviewer said that one of the settings of the play was 1899. But it was actually set in 1799, as evidenced by the period of dress and interior design and references to the French Revolution and John Paul Marat.
Additionally, the play takes place while the stealing of corpses was still popular, but a character references the Anatomy Act stopping this practice in the 1830s. This change in time period was important because, while the woman's rights movement was increasing in the 1890s, a woman being anything but a housewife and mother was impossible in 1799, even with a desire such as Harriet's. Similarly, Susannah had a firm love of poetry, but was not a poet by trade, only the head of her house.
The crew of Air Pump would also like to apologize for the sound problems you mentioned. Within a week of opening night, we had some serious technical problems to deal with which left us no time to put the microphones back up, so the actors had to rely on their voices alone.
We would also like to point anyone who enjoyed the show or is interested in the production process to read our cast blog at http://ctc-airpump.blogspot.com and to look for our fall production, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, over family weekend.
The reviewer said that one of the settings of the play was 1899. But it was actually set in 1799, as evidenced by the period of dress and interior design and references to the French Revolution and John Paul Marat.
Additionally, the play takes place while the stealing of corpses was still popular, but a character references the Anatomy Act stopping this practice in the 1830s. This change in time period was important because, while the woman's rights movement was increasing in the 1890s, a woman being anything but a housewife and mother was impossible in 1799, even with a desire such as Harriet's. Similarly, Susannah had a firm love of poetry, but was not a poet by trade, only the head of her house.
The crew of Air Pump would also like to apologize for the sound problems you mentioned. Within a week of opening night, we had some serious technical problems to deal with which left us no time to put the microphones back up, so the actors had to rely on their voices alone.
We would also like to point anyone who enjoyed the show or is interested in the production process to read our cast blog at http://ctc-airpump.blogspot.com and to look for our fall production, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, over family weekend.
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