Raconteur Theatre Company

So, when we started this little endeavor we call Raconteur Theatre, we made it a point that we didn’t want to become an incestuous, inbred theatre group. Of course there’d be a core group of people who we worked with, and we (the board) would be involved in some way with every production, but we wanted to make sure that A) we didn’t just use the same group of actors in show after show, and B) we didn’t lock ourselves in a theatrical box and only do work with Raconteur from here on out.

Well, Tricia put us on track for the first part of that equation with her casting for Ghosts (as she explains here). And the rest of us are working towards the rest of it as well. Jill auditioned for Bread & Circus Theatre Company, and will be in their February show (more on that later), and I recently took a role in Rosebriar Shakespeare’s production of King Lear.

What role, do you ask? Why, that of Edmund the Bastard. I tend to get cast as the “foil” character a lot. I’m not quite sure why, but that seems to be my lot in life. We’re only one week into rehearsals, but it’s going well so far. I look forward to moving away from contemporary drama and digging back into my Shakespearean roots (the first show I ever did in Columbus was Hamlet, with Rosebriar).

Of course, while being involved with Lear, I still have responsibilities to Raconteur. I’m the Props Designer for Ghosts, and I’ll be doing the program and running the house as well. It’s a fun and intense juggling job, but if we didn’t like challenges, why would be doing theatre?

-Aaron