EVERYMAN: COMMENTARY
Technologies and techniques
If a modern day Everyman is to relate to its audience in ways that echo the relationships of medieval playing, it must be self-conscious about the elements of its construction and incorporate available technologies into its play. These articles examine how music, costume, social media, and film build up layered meanings for our performance through thoughtful and creative approaches to some of the play’s key themes and issues.
Using and Enjoying the Time of Music in Everyman
by Rebecca Bartels
EveryCostume: How We Dressed a Medieval Play for 2015
by Corinne Fox
Everyman’s Virtual Life: Style and Content on the Facebook Event Page
by Connor Kirkwood
The Challenges of Filming Everyman
by Thom Niemann
The presence of play
Allegorical drama can seem dry and abstract on the page, yet, as the articles below reveal, it can come strikingly alive in live performance. The authors below concur that the morality play’s vitality rests in the presence of actors and audience to one another, a feature of medieval drama that can impact modern actors and audiences in unexpected and varied ways.
Allegory and Audience Awareness in the Performance of Everyman
by Noah Goldstein
Discomposing Everyman: Personalizing the Play in Live Performance
by Jasmine Ismail
Teachable Moments: The Doctor’s Play with Space in Everyman
by Connor Mannion
Experimenting with Play in the Game of Everyman
by Oona Murley
Everyman’s Medieval Theatricality: A Performance of Performance
by Stephanie Silver
Translating character, characterizing translation
The task of translation does not only entail movement from one linguistic code to another; it also involves movement between iconographies, literary forms, social types, and cultural systems. Translation is always an interpretation, on multiple levels; the articles below explore how various kinds of translation shaped character, staging, and action in our production of Everyman.
Every Man & Woman: Gender, Casting, and Historical Performance
by Kyle Davis
One Life, Many Faces: Everyman’s Existential Crisis
by Anthony Guerrieri
Goods, Death, and a Crucifix: Significance in a Stage Gag
by Chrissy Pusz
From Medieval To Modern: How to Give A Voice To Everyman
by Marissa Sblendorio
Laughing at Death: Comedy in the Translation of Everyman
by Lindsay Stone
CAST | |
Doctor | Connor Mannion |
God | Dillon Dwyer |
Death | Noah Goldstein |
Everyman I | Anthony Guerrieri |
Friendship | Dillon Dwyer |
Mother | Gaby Besada |
Father | Connor Kirkwood |
Sister | Rebecca Bartels |
Maid | Noah Goldstein |
Goods | Chrissy Pusz |
Entourage | Kyle Davis Lindsay Stone Connor Kirkwood Corinne Fox Noah Goldstein |
Everyman II | Corinne Fox |
Good Deeds | Marissa Sblendorio |
Knowledge | Oona Murley |
Confession | Stephanie Silver |
Priest | Noah Goldstein |
Beauty | Rebecca Bartels |
Strength | Anthony Guerrieri |
Discretion | Connor Kirkwood |
Five Senses | Lindsay Stone |
Everyman III | Kyle Davis |
Angels | Corinne Fox Gaby Besada |
Camera | Thom Niemann Jasmine Ismail |
EVERYMAN: MEDIA
Albin’s Undergrads Produce Innovative Website
Fordham English Connect
August 27, 2015
Quiz: Which Character from “Everyman” Are You?
Kyle Davis
May 7, 2015
Fordham Medieval Dramatists Produce Extraordinary Version of “Everyman”
Fordham English Connect
May 5, 2015
Facebook Event Page
Everyman Media Group
April 26, 2015
EVERYMAN: PHOTO GALLERY
Credits: Andrew Albin, Gultekin Garadaghly, Boyda Johnstone, Will Linden, Filipe Ribeiro, Martine Stern