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Ye Elizabeths – 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 Planet Connections Festivity)

by The Happiest Medium on May 27, 2012

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Ye Elizabeths

Benefiting: Girls, Inc.
Produced by Easter Punny Productions
Written & Performed by Alicia Barnatchez and Erin Leigh Schmoyer
Directed by Leah Bonvissuto

“Elizabeth and Elizabeth are historical re-enactors, on a low-rent version of Plimoth Plantation. When it goes the way of the buffalo, they must learn how to marry their Pilgrim lives to modern times. Their answer? Reality TV. So, update your smallpox vaccine, hop aboard this multi-media Mayflower, and prepare to get colonized…again!”

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Answers by Alicia Barnatchez & Erin Leigh Schmoyer (writers/performers/producers)

 

Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
How did you come up with the title for your show?
Alicia & Erin Leigh:  The title came from our protagonists both being names Elizabeths, (as was true of many a Pilgrim lady settler).

 

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The Kentucky Goblin Siege – There’s Something Out There

by Karen Tortora-Lee on October 22, 2010

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What I’m about to tell you will sound very controversial . . . you may not even believe me at first. Frankly, I probably shouldn’t even be writing about it at all, but I’m compelled to. You see, last Wednesday night at 8:00pm I was an eye-witness to an alien invasion.

Not just any alien invasion – no . . . this was a Kentucky goblin siege.  There were goblins. There was crazy banjo music. There were slo-mo shoot-outs. There were romantic entanglements. There were personal issues to be ironed out. There was a proposal of marriage. There were spooky noises of several different varieties.  There was a rebellious teen who wanted to be a beatnik.  There were people who weren’t what they said they were.  There was a surprisingly serene baby.  And when it was all over, there was a solid resolution for all involved. If I didn’t know better, I’d say what I’d witnessed was actually a theatrical play.  Hey . . . wait a minute . . .

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