Tom Strini
TCD.tv

Our video series begins with Youngblood Theatre

By - Jun 23rd, 2011 04:00 am

Youngblood Theatre has been Milwaukee’s must-see in-group for over a year now. This collective of multi-talented actors, writers, directors and designers is daring, provocative, serious, entrepreneurial and resourceful. Most recently, Youngblood packed them in for Mickle Maher’s An Apology, directed by Edward Morgan and featuring a remarkable star turn by artistic director Michael Cotey. He plays Dr. Faust, musing on his life and his deal with the devil during his last hour on earth, as Mephistopheles (Rich Gillard) looks on, maddeningly mute but intensely present. Youngblood sold out the entire run, in rough space in the industrial Pritzlaff Building, and extended through June 22.

In the short piece below, video artists Joel Van Haren and Kelly Anderson capture the feel of the play and the power of Cotey’s performance in our very first TCD.tv episode. In this series, videographers and artists of all sorts will collaborate to create videos just for ThirdCoast Digest. We are proud to present these videos, which we regard as artworks in their own right. Van Haren will collaborate with Anderson, also a dancer-choreographer, violinist Frank Almond, and African drummers from Ko-Thi on projects through the summer. We plan to make TCD.tv a standing feature beyond that. So stay tuned.

Categories: A/C Feature 1, Arts & Entertainment, Theater, Videos

0 thoughts on “TCD.tv: Our video series begins with Youngblood Theatre”

  1. Anonymous says:
    June 23, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    Thank you so much for this fantastic opportunity. Joel Van Haren and Kelly Anderson are pros and I can’t wait to see the rest of their work.

  2. Anonymous says:
    June 24, 2011 at 10:10 am

    This kid(my kid) stole all my creativity!

  3. Anonymous says:
    June 24, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    My husband and I saw the final performance of this play on Wednesday. Powerful, funny, sad, and above all, ironic. Michael’s performance had me appreciating the tragic end of his character. I believe he conveyed the final horror of Dr. Faustus’s last hour apology: that rather than getting 24 years of power and wealth, he entered nothingness and hell the moment he signed his contract in blood…Thanks for providing this video capture of a few moments of the play!

  4. Anonymous says:
    June 25, 2011 at 1:58 am

    Nice work! The style of the video really matches the tone of the play.

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