A Stage Manager is a Lighthouse too!
Date Posted: 07/11/2016
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Kevin Olson is a regular at Theatre Orangeville. In five years, he’s served as Stage Manager for at least ten of our productions. Kevin’s seen a lot on stage and insists that he doesn’t scare easily, but when he first saw The Ghost Island Light when it debuted at Lighthouse Festival Theatre last year in Port Dover, it gave him goose bumps.
Now Kevin is in the booth at the back of the Opera House, managing Theatre Orangeville’s remounting of The Ghost Island Light. He knows the mechanics of the script backwards, all the creaks and groans, the whistling and moaning, the loud retorts, the furtive scuttling and still, he says, the show surprises. “That’s the magic of live theatre.”
Ghost Island isn’t all chills and starts. There’s love and laughter too. “It’s a play that really knows its audience, has fun with the material, in a gentle way, like a good ghost story around a campfire.” So what part does a stage manager play in this play? “I’m very much like a lighthouse. My job is to guide the performers safely to shore.”
You have until Nov. 6th… to decide for yourself how brightly shines Ghost Island’s Light!
- Bernadette
87 Broadway, Orangeville ON, L9W 1K1