Play Set for Halloween to Dia De Los Muertos Period
Sets Nearly Perfect Spooky Tone
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LFTC Founder, Playwright & Producer Donna Todd
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Magdalena, New Mexico– Dark Moon Over Lost Wife Creek... A phantom hound, a strange night visitor, and a road that never goes twice to the same place – what haunts Lost Wife Creek? And who was the “lost wife” for whom the area was named? Long the source of local gossip and legend, will her true fate ever be known?
...On a dark night in October, 1935, Manny (Aragon) is frantic, searching everywhere for wife Ruby, careening along winding backcountry roads in his rusty flivver with friend Cass (Trotter) hanging on for dear life. Accompanying them is young Ambrosia, refuge from an Orphan Train and master of the tall tale (also known as “fibbing”). But the familiar road doesn’t seem to lead home – or to anywhere they’ve been before. Are they being followed...?
Meanwhile, Gardy Trotter, waiting by lamplight in her isolated farm kitchen, is startled by the appearance of an odd but fascinating new neighbor. The intertwining stories – from ridiculous (Manny’s latest “great idea”) to despairing (a marital spat), hopeful (young Ambrosia) to touching (an undying love) – are endearingly, frustratingly human, but with an eerie touch of “something other” – perfect entertainment for an autumn evening near Halloween and Dias de los Muertos.
Dark Moon, a complete play in itself, is part of the popular Lost Wife Creek series, reviewed as “Hilarious, nostalgic, historic, thoroughly enjoyable....with sure and true ensemble acting”, while New Mexico Magazine likened it to “the ‘Honeymooners’ meet the ‘Waltons.’” London Frontier Theatre, now in its historic WPA venue and 12th season in Magdalena, continues to present a wide variety of plays, incorporating our vivid multi-cultural heritage for exciting, entertaining theatre.
Actors in Dark Moon are Sarah Kate Gallaher, Frank Howard, Ruth Ryan, Donna Todd, and Donald Wiltshire, all of Magdalena, and Fernando Montano of Socorro. Wiltshire is also LFTC’s set/ lighting director, and Greg Vivian executes lights and sound.
Performances are Friday, Oct. 26th and Saturday, Oct. 27th, both at 7 pm, with a matinee on Sunday, Oct 28th at 2 pm, and again on Saturday, Nov.3rd, at 7 pm, and Sunday, Nov. 4, at 2 pm. Performances are at Magdalena’s historic WPA Theatre on Main at Fourth Street. Tickets are $3.50 for adults, $2.00 for children under twelve, and are available at the door one hour prior to performance, and by Reservation (recommended) at (505) 854-2519 or londonfrontier@gilanet.com (londonfrontier@gilanet.com)
This project is funded in part by the Kerr Foundation of Oklahoma, the McCune Foundation of Santa Fe, Socorro Electric Cooperative, & LFTC’s “Friends of the Theatre.”
Once Upon A Time in Lost Wife Creek...
Dark Moon Play is Perfect for the Season
<center><font color="black" face="Arial Narrow" size="2"><table align=center cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><caption align=bottom><font color="black" face="Arial Narrow" size="2">We learned some of the secrets and lore of the mythical New Mexico frontier village named Lost Wife Creek.</font></caption><tr><td><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_5145_lftc.jpg border=1 hspace=5 alt="We learned some of the secrets and lore of the mythical New Mexico frontier village named Lost Wife Creek."></td></tr></table></font></center>
Magdalena, NM: It was a dark and stormy night in the sleepy mountain village of Magdalena (Okay, so it wasn't so stormy but it sure was dark!) when my Wife/Owner and I arrived at the WPA theater to enjoy the Saturday night performance of 'Dark Moon' at London Frontier Theater Company's home theater. It was a trip well worth making. We had a delightful evening as we visited with old friends and made some new ones while enjoying the latest 'ink's-not-dry-yet' theatrical farce written and produced by Donna Todd, founder of the company. For the first time we learned some of the secrets and lore of the mythical New Mexico frontier village named Lost Wife Creek. The cast put on a fine performance of this amusing comedic-drama with a few surprises thrown in to keep the audience guessing.
<font color="black" face="Arial Narrow" size="2"><table align=right cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><caption align=bottom><font color="black" face="Arial Narrow" size="2">The play is just spooky and surreal enough to fit perfectly in this season of Halloween and the Day of the Dead.</font></caption><tr><td><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_5150_lftc.jpg border=1 hspace=5 alt="The play is just spooky and surreal enough to fit perfectly in this season of Halloween and the Day of the Dead."></td></tr></table></font>
The play is just spooky and surreal enough to fit perfectly in this season of Halloween and the Day of the Dead. This latest installment in playwright Todd's Lost Wife Creek serial theater series even incorporates an eerie time-lost 'dejavuesque' sequence in which cast members find themselves lost late at night on a strange and mysterious road somewhere near Lost Wife Creek that none of them remembers or has driven before. Their journey down that road had the audience on the edge of our seats wondering how the actors would escape from a place where things they saw and the conversation they were having as they travelled seemed to repeat themselves.
<font color="black" face="Arial Narrow" size="2"><table align=left cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><caption align=bottom><font color="black" face="Arial Narrow" size="2">This very enjoyable new play takes its audience on a fun and intriguing romp through the land of 'what's possible'.</font></caption><tr><td><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_5152_lftc.jpg border=1 hspace=5 alt="This very enjoyable new play takes its audience on a fun and intriguing romp through the land of 'what's possible'."></td></tr></table></font>We won't give the story or its outcome away. But we can say this very enjoyable new play takes its audience on a fun and intriguing romp through the land of "what's possible" in this season when La Llorona and Her ghostly cousins freely roam the rivers, streams, streets, highways and byways of New Mexico and the dead sometimes drop by to visit neighbors and relatives just for fun.
Our thanks to Donna Todd and her cast of seven for putting on a great show! It was the most fun I'd had since my birthday last year when my Owner and I also had the pleasure of attending another LFTC original performance except that Halloween night I was wearing a dress!
Our Rating: Five Stars! *****
Our Recommendation: Don't Miss It!
Final Performances: Saturday and Sunday Nov 3 - 4
Conclusion: Be there! You'll be glad you went!
For More Information: Visit www.LondonFrontierTheatre.com (http://www.londonfrontiertheatre.com/)
Sets Nearly Perfect Spooky Tone
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LFTC Founder, Playwright & Producer Donna Todd
at the WPA Theater christening</CENTER>
Magdalena, New Mexico– Dark Moon Over Lost Wife Creek... A phantom hound, a strange night visitor, and a road that never goes twice to the same place – what haunts Lost Wife Creek? And who was the “lost wife” for whom the area was named? Long the source of local gossip and legend, will her true fate ever be known?
...On a dark night in October, 1935, Manny (Aragon) is frantic, searching everywhere for wife Ruby, careening along winding backcountry roads in his rusty flivver with friend Cass (Trotter) hanging on for dear life. Accompanying them is young Ambrosia, refuge from an Orphan Train and master of the tall tale (also known as “fibbing”). But the familiar road doesn’t seem to lead home – or to anywhere they’ve been before. Are they being followed...?
Meanwhile, Gardy Trotter, waiting by lamplight in her isolated farm kitchen, is startled by the appearance of an odd but fascinating new neighbor. The intertwining stories – from ridiculous (Manny’s latest “great idea”) to despairing (a marital spat), hopeful (young Ambrosia) to touching (an undying love) – are endearingly, frustratingly human, but with an eerie touch of “something other” – perfect entertainment for an autumn evening near Halloween and Dias de los Muertos.
Dark Moon, a complete play in itself, is part of the popular Lost Wife Creek series, reviewed as “Hilarious, nostalgic, historic, thoroughly enjoyable....with sure and true ensemble acting”, while New Mexico Magazine likened it to “the ‘Honeymooners’ meet the ‘Waltons.’” London Frontier Theatre, now in its historic WPA venue and 12th season in Magdalena, continues to present a wide variety of plays, incorporating our vivid multi-cultural heritage for exciting, entertaining theatre.
Actors in Dark Moon are Sarah Kate Gallaher, Frank Howard, Ruth Ryan, Donna Todd, and Donald Wiltshire, all of Magdalena, and Fernando Montano of Socorro. Wiltshire is also LFTC’s set/ lighting director, and Greg Vivian executes lights and sound.
Performances are Friday, Oct. 26th and Saturday, Oct. 27th, both at 7 pm, with a matinee on Sunday, Oct 28th at 2 pm, and again on Saturday, Nov.3rd, at 7 pm, and Sunday, Nov. 4, at 2 pm. Performances are at Magdalena’s historic WPA Theatre on Main at Fourth Street. Tickets are $3.50 for adults, $2.00 for children under twelve, and are available at the door one hour prior to performance, and by Reservation (recommended) at (505) 854-2519 or londonfrontier@gilanet.com (londonfrontier@gilanet.com)
This project is funded in part by the Kerr Foundation of Oklahoma, the McCune Foundation of Santa Fe, Socorro Electric Cooperative, & LFTC’s “Friends of the Theatre.”
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