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Sharon Barrow, who is the company’s business
manager, Weldon and Dowling founded the group.
Dowling “lit the spark to the whole thing,” Barrow
said.
Barrow had played Lady Anne in the Aggie Play
ers’ production of Richard III. Dowling was involved
in the production, and Weldon played Richard.
The three went from there to form Texas Actor’s
Theater “so we could perform plays that we wanted
to do,” Barrow said.
Weldon said that one purpose of the company is
to offer a choice in drama for the College Station
area, and to present the kinds of plays that
StageCenter and the Aggie Players can’t present.
"We are continuing in the tradition of ‘off-off
Broadway,’ which is experimental drama that was
often first performed in churches and cafes in
Greenwich Village,” Weldon said.
Although these particular plays were first done
15 years ago, “they are experimental for this area,”
Weldon said.
“Sam Shepard won the Pulitzer Prize last year,”
Weldon said. “We chose to do some of the earlier
pieces, which present a kind of revolution in drama
tic structures.”
One revolutionary aspect of Shepard’s plays is
that there is no real plot structure, Weldon said; the
plays are more poetic or musical than narrative.
“These plays are poetic, and some people might
say they are also very vulger,” Weldon said. “To be
perfectly honest about it, these are not the kind of
plays that your mother and my mother would be
comfortable seeing.
“But this company is built on no censorship, so
we don’t have to be careful. Except in the sense that
we have to put on a good show.”
Barrow is directing "Chicago” and “Rock Gar
den” as a project in her Techniques of Directing
class. It will be the first time she has directed the
company.
"It is a challenge to do a play analysis on contem
porary drama which is experimental,” Barrow said.
"It’s all acting, with very little setting. We battle, and
come up with weird poetry.”
The current production will feature, in addition to
Weldon, Barrow and Stimson, and Monica Fernan
dez, who has been active in the San Antonio Little
Theater, and Steve Thomas. Both are Texas A&M
students.
Richard Moore and Steve Thomas in the Sam She
pard play “Rock Garden.”
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