Director’s notes and commentary
It's hard to believe that we're less than a month from opening our next production! In a way, it feels as though we've barely gotten started, what with holidays and bad-weather cancellations. But on the other hand,…
Here is the link to my Director's Notes from the October 24 issue of Whatzup! Here's a link to a lovely review by Kathleen Christian in this week's Whatzup! You can pick up free copies of Whatzup! every week--the new…
Check out the wonderful feature article in this week's Whatzup! Jen Poiry Prough interviewed Lisa Ellis, who plays Helen Doss, and her daughter Katty, who plays young Rita Doss.
When we watch a play or a movie set in another time period, most of the differences are rather obvious: clothing and hair styles, car models. Others may be less so. In The Family Nobody Wanted, Timmy Doss professes to…
In conjunction with our production of The Family Nobody Wanted, we will have a literature table for you to peruse before the show and during intermission, with information from a number of area organizations which facilitate adoption in some way.…
This photo was in the Life magazine article which appeared in 1951, and was part of the media frenzy which drives the plot of the play, The Family Nobody Wanted, which is loosely based on the Doss family. Incidentally, Helen…
We have a large and wonderful group of actors--at least one is making his stage debut, and several are new to afO. Here they are, grouped by character relationship. Those with an asterisk appear on the afO Home Stage for…
A married couple has several medical options nowadays, when told that they are infertile. But in the 1940s, there were really only two choices: remain childless, or adopt. When Carl and Helen Doss, a couple in their 20s, found that…