![]() ![]() Today we would call that kind of effort “world-building.” Masters, I think, would have simply called it life. ![]() It’s a real thrill to bring this town to life with the help of another 50 wonderful actors, and it’s mind-boggling to reflect that all these characters sprang from the pen of a single man. In this installment of Spoon River Anthology, we meet tragic figures, heroes and heroines, a few outright villains, the embittered, the regretful, the peaceful, the lost. Masters’s epic poem cycle is, of course, all about small details combining into a larger picture. Garrett Moyer.Actor 4/Tom Merritt/Fletcher McGee/Knowlt Hoheimer/Andy. As the we work our way through the full cycle - and as the poems and characters pile up - stepping back also enables us to see the emerging outlines of this fully imagined and wholly believable small town. Actor 1/Washington McNeely/Clarence Fawcett/George Gray/Fiddler Jones Pt. Releasing the poems in sets of 50 allows us to do just that. ![]() So it’s a real joy now and again to take a step back, share the most recent performances we’ve recorded, and reflect on the project’s progress to date. The logistics of Chatterbox’s Spoon River Anthology project are relatively complex, and while we’re busy getting all the performers auditioned, scheduled, recorded, and edited, it’s easy to lose track of the bigger picture. ![]()
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