Someone to watch over me.
An Anonymous Production:
Directed by Melvin Hancock
Starring the Imprisoned Talents of:
Scott Schneider, Gene Dove & Melvin Hancock
The Reforming Production Staff
Head Jailers: Alcatraz Rodriguez & Midnight Jones
Asst. Jailers: Kayla & Kimberly Kafka
Lighting Design: Tim Reid & Billy Papillon
Sound Design: Throbbing Universe and Son
Assistant to the Producers: John Whitley
Set & Costume design: Cool Hand Luke & Miss Blau
Props: Mark Tucker’s Used Furniture
Sets: Neil Vaughn Cold Spring Galleries
Graphics: ‘Redemption Bros’
Someone to watch over me
It was a sheer joy to watch my favourite actor direct this piece. Mel had chosen for his directorial debut a beautiful and challenging script. The playwright Frank McGuinness’ words explored the daily crisis of an Englishman, an Irishman and an American locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. He shows their collective and individual suffering and how strength is found by talking to each other. As they spill their hearts and thoughts out in their confinement. Finding hope in their fears. Making laughter out of their tears. The play was utterly simple to produce, having only a bare stage which we placed a real cage on. The cage added a sense of grounded, gritty reality to this rather surreal script. The rest was just the powerful performances of these actors.
