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GATHERING NOTE: A FABLE
Written by the 2006/2007 Apprentice/Intern Company
Directed by Will MacAdams
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
2007
Louisville, Kentucky is a city of neighborhoods; The
Highlands, Crescent Hill, Phoenix Hill, Germantown,
Rubbertown, Butchertown...it would be impossible to name
them all. Not impossible because
there are too many, but because the boundaries overlap and the
names change with the times.
One neighborhood in particular has undergone so many
boundary shifts and name changes that it's
nearly impossible to research it. Frogtown and
Smyrna in the past, the neighborhood is now called
Highview...but only by the people who don't insist on
calling it Fern Creek or Okolona. In an effort
to promote understanding of his corner of the Metro
Louisville community, City Councilman and local
fireman James Peden invited the Actors Theatre
Apprentice/Intern company to do a community
based theatre project about Highview. The result
was Gathering Note: A Fable.
Performed as an ensemble piece, actors rarely left the
stage.
Individual characters were portrayed by the addition of
pieces over a basic neutral outfit.
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