The Drexel Players Present : Cake

Post by James Haro:

Today we sent our postcard artwork to Fireball Printing. Last year's cards were designed by Danielle Brief who created the beautiful image of a wooden artist mannequin wrapped in colored yarn.

Producer Julie Mercik (who also photographed our image) shared her thoughts about this years postcard...

"The image we chose for our post cards was a true collaboration between Laurel (Hostak), James, John (VanZelst), and myself.  We chose a cake, because it is the most iconic symbol of strike at Drexel.  After our post strike meal is done, there is ALWAYS a cake for everyone to enjoy. However,  we were eager to let people know this wasn't a birthday cake, which is why we chose to put lightbulbs in it.  You'll notice they are similar to the dressing room light bulbs that are in our Fringe Guide image.  Finally, we chose to cut the cake, which left us with two images that embody themes in the piece: both the single piece standing alone by itself, and also the big cake that is missing a piece."

We're so proud of our image and we're excited to put them out into the city. We also want to thank cast-member and graphic designer Camilla Kronenwetter (CAMI!) who designed the beautiful layout.


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Parts: A Speed-Through is a devised theatrical piece created by the Drexel Players which will be playing in Philadelphia, September 6-14.

For tickets, please go to :
fringearts.ticketleap.com/parts-a-speed-through

Our Dream is Called Make Believe...

Post by James Haro:

Holy heck-a-moley, it's August!

When did that happen?

Well, if you're here than you may or may not know that the Drexel Players are getting back into the Fringe of things.

Last night, Aug. 1st, marked the first rehearsal for our devised theatre piece, "Parts: A Speed-Through."

Map of our playing space

Cast members Cami, Carl, Garth, Jason, Jourdan, Mikaila, and me, convened in the Mandell Theatre Green Room and read through the current draft of "TOWN by Gene Wilder." Director, Laurel Hostak, also led us through an exercise which had us all give an imaginary tour of our childhood bedrooms. It was really something extraordinary. When my fellow cast members spoke and walked around the invisible space you could see that they were instantly transported to another place, an important place. 

The idea of being at home, or creating a home, and living there with other people is such an important part of our play.  We all (hopefully) have a place we can call home. For theatre people, we sometimes make our time within a production our home. What is beautiful and tragic about that idea is the fact that every production ends, and with that we are forced to leave our "family."

As we move through the rehearsal process we will be exploring how our characters exist on-stage and backstage, and whether or not as individuals they can call this production of "TOWN by Gene Wilder" another home.

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Parts: A Speed-Through is a devised theatrical piece created by the Drexel Players which will be playing in Philadelphia, September 6-14.

For tickets, please go to :
fringearts.ticketleap.com/parts-a-speed-through