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[poirott]

3rd Poirot film A Haunting in Venice filming on location

Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey and Riccardo Scamarcio were spotted filming the upcoming Agatha Christie adaptation on January 6 and 7 2023 in Venice, Italy.

Branagh was also seen filming at the Clock Tower in Piazza San Marco, and later with his double taking a ride on a police gondola through the canals. Branagh appeared in a navy double-breasted coat, striped blue suit, white shirt, red silk tie, black leather gloves, Homburg hat, carrying Poirot's iconic cane and a book about Venice.

Corriere del Veneto (via Italy24) reports the cast will be shooting in Venice until mid-January. "There will be filming on the water with stage gondolas, vintage boats and 1950s taxis." Other locations mentioned include Campo San Giacomo dell'Orio (a square with a church), Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello (music conservatory), San Samuele (church), Palazzo Malipiero (palace), Campo San Boldo (square near the famous Rialto Bridge), etc.

Based on Agatha Christie's novel Hallowe'en Party, the film is set in post-World War II Venice on All Hallows' Eve. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

Source: DM, JustJared

[larryland]

Lenox, MA [March 28, 2017] – WAM Theatre’s eighth season continues with the limited run remount of the company’s very successful 2013 production of Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, written by Lauren Gunderson and directed by WAM Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, featuring the entire original cast. The production will run from March 30-April 9, 2017, and be presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox.  

“We are very excited to announce that the entire original cast and the majority of the creative team are able to reassemble for this remount,” said van Ginhoven, “Giving another life to this audience favorite and critically acclaimed production has been a dream since 2013. Thanks to some early support from Greylock Federal Credit Union and others, this dream is becoming a reality.”

“I’m not only honored to have WAM re-mount Emilie…, I’m inspired. WAM’s commitment to powerful stories combined with their artistic excellence and their civic impact makes me want to write more plays like Emilie… about complex women changing the world. WAM truly manifests my belief that theatre actively and intentionally changes hearts, minds, and the future of a thoughtful and empathetic nation.” – Lauren Gunderson

The 2013 production was deemed “Highly Imaginative….Highly Theatrical….” by The Berkshire Eagle, which also awarded it Honorable Mention for Best Production and named  Kim Stauffer’s performance as Emilie one of the year’s best in their Best of 2013 selection.

Audience members were equally enthusiastic, remarking: “Emilie… is everything I want in a theater experience: a great play about an intriguing, powerful woman, riveting acting, inspired directing, an artful set and engaging audience! ”,  and “…one of the most provocative, intelligent, funny, well acted, directed, written performances I’ve seen in a long time.”

Portraits of Emilie du Chatelet and Voltaire.

Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), best known for her 15-year-liaison with Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher, was far more than a great man’s mistress. She became a highly regarded interpreter of modern physics and a master of mathematics and linguistics during the Age of Enlightenment. In the play, Emilie searches for a formula that will convince the world of her worth by tallying her achievements in love and philosophy.

Kim Stauffer, whose credits include Mary Stuart and Macbeth at New York Classical Theatre, Outside Mullingar at Capital Rep, Madagasgar and Crime and Punishment at the Chester Theatre Company, and A Streetcar Named Desire and The Crucible at Barrington Stage Company, will reprise the role of Emilie. Voltaire will be portrayed again by Oliver Wadsworth, whose credits include the National Tour of Chitty, Chitty Bang, Bang, The Well at The Public Theatre and Fully Committed (Metroland Best Performance) at Capital Repertory Theatre. Additional original cast members include Suzanne Ankrum (Tennessee Shakespeare Company), Brendan Cataldo (Adirondack Theater Festival), and Joan Coombs (Shakespeare & Company). For additional information on the cast and creative team, visit: http://www.wamtheatre.com/emilie-remount-2017/

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In keeping with WAM’s double philanthropic mission, a portion of proceeds will be donated to this production’s beneficiary: Flying Cloud Institute. WAM’s donation will support scholarships for public school girls who attend Flying Cloud’s after school Girls Science Clubs, so girls who show promise and interest in science can join the Young Women in Science summer programs where they conduct experiments with women scientists and engineers working in laboratories at Bard College at Simon’s Rock.

WAM and Flying Cloud Institute also have support from Mass Humanities to engage 25 girls who attend Reid Middle School in Pittsfield and are part of Flying Cloud’s after school STEAM Team. These girls will conduct science experiments and participate in theater activities that will heighten their appreciation when they attend a matinee of Emilie….. on April 6th, that features a panel of women scientists after the show.

Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight had its world premiere in 2009 at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, Calif. The play has been described as “fiercely inquisitive and joyfully sexy” (The San Francisco Chronicle) and an “ambitious, highly theatrical romp that literally crackles with electricity” (LA/OC Examiner). WAM first staged the play in November of 2013 at the St. Germain Stage at Barrington Stage Company.

AT A GLANCE

Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson Directed by Kristen van Ginhoven< Beneficiary:Flying Cloud Institute

Presented by WAM Theatre March 30-April 9, 2017 at the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA Tickets: $10-$40 For tickets visit http://www.WAMTheatre.com Or call the Shakespeare & Company box office at 413-637-3353

Performances March 30 & 31, April 1, 7 & 8 at 7:30 pm April 1, 2, 8 & 9 at 2 pm April 6 at 3 pm

Cast Suzanne Ankrum as Soubrette Brendan Cataldo as Gentleman Joan Coombs as Madam Kim Stauffer as Emilie Oliver Wadsworth as Voltaire

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: Lauren Gunderson

WAM Theatre: Emilie, The Revolutionists (Reading with Chester Theatre). Elsewhere: Her work has been commissioned, produced and developed at companies across the US including South Coast Rep (Emilie, Silent Sky), The Kennedy Center (The Amazing mg American Adventures of Dr. Wonderful And Her Dog!), The O’Neill, The Denver Center, Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, Synchronicity, Olney Theatre, Geva and more. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You, Exit, Pursued By A Bear, and Toil And Trouble), Dramatists (Silent Sky, Bauer) and Samuel French (Emilie). She is a Playwright in Residence at The Playwrights Foundation, and a proud Dramatists Guild member. She is from Atlanta, GA and lives in San Francisco. Lauren is the most produced living playwright in America for 2016, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s 3-Year Residency with Marin Theatre Co. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Online:LaurenGunderson.com

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Kristen van Ginhoven

WAM Theatre: In Darfur (New England Premiere),Emilie (New England Premiere), The Old Mezzo(World Premiere), The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls and Melancholy Play. Regional Theatre: The Whale (Adirondack Theatre Festival), 10 Minute Play Festival (Barrington Stage Company), Petticoats of Steel (Capital Repertory Theatre), Footloose (Cohoes Music Hall), Children’s Hour (Siena College), Vendetta Chrome (Emerson College). Selected assistant directing: They Physicists, 42nd Street (Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada), Two Men of Florence (Huntington Theatre), Sleuth, Absurd Person Singular (Barrington Stage Company) Training: Dalhousie University (BA), Queen’s University (BEd), Emerson College (MA). Et Cetera:Kristen is the Artistic Director of WAM Theatre, an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and a theatre artist for the International Schools Theatre Association. She was a member of the 2013 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Website: www.wamtheatre.com

ABOUT WAM THEATRE

Based in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, WAM Theatre is Where Arts and Activism Meet. The company was co-founded in 2010 by Canadian director, actor, educator, and producer Kristen van Ginhoven. WAM’s vision is to create opportunity for women and girls through the mission of theatre as philanthropy.

Inspired by the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, WAM donates a portion of the proceeds from its theatrical events to organizations that benefit women and girls.

Over the past seven years, WAM Theatre has donated more than $21,000 to eight nonprofit organizations and provided paid work to more than 175 theatre artists. In addition to the main stage productions and special events, WAM Theatre’s activities include a comprehensive educational outreach program and the Fresh Takes Play Reading Series. For more information, visit http://www.WAMTheatre.com

WAM Theatre Announces Limited-Run Remount of “Emilie…” Lenox, MA - WAM Theatre’s eighth season continues with the limited run remount of the company’s very successful 2013 production of Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, written by Lauren Gunderson and directed by WAM Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, featuring the entire original cast.