![]() ![]() Aided by four student actors serving as koken – a Japanese term for stage assistant – the set is part of the action. The script is a celebration of language with dense melodic writing, but this production is designed to be visually rich as well. With uncertainty around every corner, the three women forge a tight bond as they adjust to a new world and search for happiness. 12-21 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Eric Overmyer’s “On the Verge” is a story of three Victorian women – Mary, Fanny and Alex – who venture into uncharted land before unwittingly traveling through time to the 1950s. “It’s truly alive,” says Locker ’16, who plays Fanny. With rope bridges, platforms, hidden windows, a giant yeti and props emerging from trap doors in the stage floor, the world that students and director David Feldshuh, professor of performing and media arts, have created is almost its own character. The set for the upcoming Department of Performing and Media Arts production of “On the Verge” is full of energy. ![]() She walks cautiously toward a row of moving branches, pulling out her machete and leveling it with one strike. The jungle surrounding Julie Locker is breathing. Julie Locker '16, left, Sarah Coffey '16 and senior lecturer Carolyn Goelzer appear in costume for “On the Verge.” ![]()
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