BALDWIN PLAYERS PERFORMANCES

The Baldwin Players of Abraham Baldwin College presented Quazimodo! by David Koren on Feb. 27 – March 1 in Room 319 in Conger Hall on the ABAC campus.

The cast included Dr. Kelley Swilley of Douglas as Esmeralda, David Charles Thompson of Winder as Phoebus/Frollo, B. J. Giddens of Lester as Quazimodo, Hillary Hamby of Ocilla as Gudule, and Michelle Farrar of Arabi as Paquette.

A comic retelling of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the production was staged as a readers theatre, a form in which symbolic movement and metaphorical images contribute. The actors, or “readers,” sit on stools holding bound copies of the script, sometimes portraying multiple roles.

“The conventions of readers theatre are to make the audience ever mindful of the importance of the text, as both literature and as dramatic artifact,” Dr. John Galyean, ABAC’s Director of Theatre and the Baldwin Players, said. “The spoken word and the range and power of the human voice are to be celebrated in this highly creative form of theatre.”

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