In this episode The Three Poor Players start, what will certainly be, an ongoing exploration of “immediacy” in the work.

In his book WHAT ACTORS DO, Mike Alfreds describes this search for spontaneity as one of seven paradoxes that actors continually wrestle with.

Today, John works with two young artists and experiments with one way in which actors could encounter a text for the first time.

Along the way we look at how we can begin connecting the cues we get from our partners, the text and our own bodies, we discover that the whole process of acting can be a little less scary, and Jason tells us about the greatest moment of student acting he’s ever seen.

In Chris’s words: “This is FUN!”

(The Three Poor Players was conceived, created, and produced by Jason Pasqua, Chris Will, and John O'Hagan. Please rate and review us, leave comments, or reach out to us at 3poorplayers@gmail.com.

Music for this episode is by Yurii Semchyshyn , WaveMaster , Roman Senyk and music_for_video - all from Pixabay)

We start off our full series by exploring the ability to manipulate time!

In this first full episode from The Three Poor Players, Chris and his student Kara Reynolds introduce us to a simple yet powerful way to bend time in such a way as to give the actor a whole host of options.

Who wouldn't want to get in on that action?

Our thanks to Kara Reynolds for her most excellent work and, as always to the Bankside Arts Collective for hosting The Three Poor Players.

(The Three Poor Players was conceived, created, and produced by Jason Pasqua, Chris Will, and John O'Hagan. Please rate and review us, leave comments, or reach out to us at 3poorplayers@gmail.com.

Music for this episode is by Yurii Semchyshyn and WaveMaster at Pixabay.)

Welcome back to the Bankside Arts Collective podcast and the second "Inside The Dumb Waiter" episode! It’s opening week for The Dumb Waiter and today we get to speak at length with Riley Capp, who is playing Gus in our production.

Before we get to today’s episode I just want to remind everyone that the first full episode of Three Poor Players will be dropping next week - The Three Poor Players Play with “Time”. From there we should be on our regular schedule of a new episode every month. We’ve got some great guests coming onto the podcast - so please, if you haven’t already, go ahead and subscribe.

The Bankside Repertory Theatre’s production of The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter opens tomorrow -October 2nd, and in this episode of “Inside The Dumb Waiter” we sit down with actor Riley Capp for a very thoughtful and engaging conversation about his journey as an actor and some of the really wonderful things he is bringing to his work as a whole, and this production in particular.

We hope you enjoy these "behind the scenes" looks and we certainly hope to see you Oct 2-5, at 7:30pm, in the Davis Black Box Theatre, (located on the Principia College campus, in Elsah, IL) for The Dumb Waiter.

Principia College is located at 1 Maybeck Place, in Elsah, IL. Tickets are $5 for students, $12 all others and are available at the door. Seating is limited so we recommend you arrive early enough to book.

(This podcast is a production of Bankside Arts Collective, based in Alton, IL.

This episode was produced by John O'Hagan.

Music by Yurii Semchyshyn from Pixabay

You can email us at banksidereptheatre@gmail.com.

Visit our website: Bankside Repertory Theatre)