NOW PLAYING:
Seven in One Blow
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Fri., Dec 7 @ 7 p.m.
Sat., Dec 8 @ 2 p.m.
Sat., Dec 8 @ 4 p.m.
In Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, a child living in the city kills seven flies with a single swat and makes a belt emblazoned with "SEVEN IN ONE BLOW" to commemorate the event. As he is traveling about, most people think his belt refers to seven people and assign the Kid all kinds of difficult tasks based on this faulty presumption. Along the way a few interesting things are learned: an Ogre finds that you don't always have to show how strong you are... sometimes it's okay just to be quiet about it; a girl realizes that when you tease people you are hurting someone who may be just like you; and a scary monster understands that because she is loved, she may not be so scary after all. In the end, the Kid ultimately discovers that a parents' love and care has no bounds.
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Director Randy Sharp steps into the Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
This is the sixth season Axis has performed Seven in One Blow—what draws you back to the work?
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It completely exemplifies the feeling of being a child: of never knowing what will happen but continuing with hope and imagination. |
| As a director, how do you keep the production fresh and new, not just for your actors, but for yourself as well? |
We look at things that are popular or fashionable or funny at the time of the show and seamlessly integrate them. |
| Axis is well-known for producing plays set in a particular historical period (A Glance at New York, In Token of My Admiration). What is it about period pieces that's so attractive to the company? |
Really it’s what is particularily attractive about the mid to late 19th century! This period is the seperation between the modern world and the dark, confusing, unimaginable, beautiful, vast and deeply fascinating past. It’s the beginning of the upward spiral to incredible speed: the moment when the world began to shrink into a machine you could hold in your hand instead of representing a perilous, enriching journey that takes years. |
| Why do you call yourselves "Axis"? |
Axis is the center point of a many spoked wheel. |
| How did you get involved with the arts? |
I seem to have always been involved with the Arts—since I was a child, doing plays, playing music, visiting museums. Axis Theatre has been in operation (in one form or another) since 1987. |
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Director Randy Sharp
THE STATS:
Next-up on Your Netflick que: Brother's Keeper
What's playing on your Ipod right now: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Favorite Pizza Topping: Olive oil and garlic
Last good book you read: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
All-time, hands-down favorite piece of theater? Brace Up! by The Wooster Group |
