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(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) — Thinkery & Verse is presenting Thou Shalt Not in New Brunswick from September 16 – October 8 in Meeting Corridor at St. John’s. This can be a stage-play that reimagines the unsolved Corridor-Mills Double Murder of 1922! Performances begin up on the Centennial Anniversary of the tragedy. Photographer John Posada was at a costume rehearsal to take pictures.

In 1922, close to the banks of the Raritan River, a small metropolis priest and a choir singer had been slaughtered in probably the most notorious unsolved double murder of the twentieth century. Incompetent cops, political operatives, and the poorest and strongest households in New Jersey had been all swallowed within the circus that adopted. Thinkery & Verse, working with the Church of Saint John the Evangelist, now presents Thou Shalt Not, a nightmare narrative seen by way of the attitude Charlotte Mills, a younger girl determined to seek out her mom’s assassin.

Thou Shalt Not is a theatrical exploration of actual occasions. As a visitor of the Church of Saint John the Evangelist, the viewers will meet Reverend Edward Corridor, Mrs. Frances Corridor, Eleanor Mills, and all the primary gamers of New Brunswick in 1922. The viewers will probably be guided by way of a darkish and surreal journey of the occasions resulting in and following the vicious murders of “the minister and the choir singer,” and the “circus” that surrounded it. Thou Shalt Not is a re-assessment of historical past, the complicity of a group, and the sharp exploration of the feminine voices lengthy since hushed. The staging of this play is be site-specific, peripatetic, and immersive.

For years, the male-dominated sacristy didn’t permit the Church of Saint John the Evangelist to debate the murders. Now the sacristy is generally girls, and so they don’t simply discuss it, they sponsored this play–Ladies don’t cowl up violence towards girls. Martha Godfrey, who’s a member of the sacristy at Saint John’s displays on the tragedy, “The Corridor-Mills case is one thing that we have had hanging over our heads for a very long time. It was once, individuals would get mad at you for speaking about it. I feel, as a congregation, we have to get out in entrance of it. The play is a approach of doing that.” The organist, Dr. Susan Huslage agrees, including, “Why would not we be allowed to speak about it? It is how the group views us, although it was a very long time in the past—definitely earlier than any of us had been round. However rising up right here, we knew the individuals concerned. It is not factor to have in your previous.”

Tickets are $45 and obtainable for buy on-line. Meeting Corridor at St. John’s is positioned at 189 George Avenue in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The forged consists of Karen Alvarado*, Andrew Bainbridge, Erin Bogert, Celine Dikes, Frank Dolce*, Gio Gunaill, Johnny Kavanagh, John M. Meyer, Kaitlin Ormerod, Rebecca Servon, Lazarus Simmons, Ania Upstill. * Showing with the permission of Actors’ Fairness Affiliation 

The Inventive Staff consists of John M. Meyer (Co-Director), Karen Alvarado (Co-Director), Jackie Mercer (Manufacturing Supervisor), Sarah Woods (Lighting Designer), Ariana Papin (Costume Designer), Sean Ullmer (Music Director), Henry Strehlo (Director of Pictures), Erin Bogert (Director of Improvement), Ashley Basile (Set and Prop Design), Ryan Murphy (Advertising Advisor). 

Listed below are extra pictures from the manufacturing.

Thinkery & Verse search to carry out classically impressed, politically conscious performs that problem us to be empowered, globally-oriented residents with a eager consciousness of the excessive stakes of recent life. Whereas their major mission is to create new performs, considered one of our key artistic strategies is to carry out our performs in repertory with traditional works, thereby difficult their writers and actors to realize new heights of creativity and aesthetics. Thinkery & Verse LLC is a sponsored challenge of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service group.

John Posada is a New Jersey primarily based photographer specializing in dwell theatre and music performances. For greater than 10 years, John has photographed dwell music occasions the place he mastered the methods of timing and capturing fast-paced motion beneath difficult lighting situations to seize that excellent second that tells a narrative in a single picture. At the moment, John has photographed productions for over 30 totally different theatres. Click on right here for John’s web site.