Jan 29, 2009 - Kelly Miller and her theatrical exploits in the news again.
from 1/29 edition of ysnews - http://www.ysnews.com/stories/2009/01/012909_oneacts.html
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| The annual Yellow Springs High School/McKinney School one-act plays, written, directed and performed by students, will take place Friday–Sunday, Feb. 6–8, at the Mills Lawn gym. Shown are, from left to right, back row: Zeb Reichert, Zane Reichert, Kevin Mayer, Anthony Pettiford; third row: Leon Reichert, Zeke Hardman, Anne Weigand, Michelle Click, Adam Zaremsky; second row: Eric Rudolf, Elliot Cromer, Lauren Westendorf, Kelly Miller, Elan Orr; and first row: Lizzy Gonder. |
December 1, 2008 - Lois and team at Indian Valley
see more pics at
http://picasaweb.google.com/richmiller1/LoBballVIndianValleyFall2008?authkey=Gv1sRgCI_X2puHksihPA#
November 13, 2008 - preview of MidSummer NIghts Dream, Kelly = Helena
from http://www.ysnews.com/stories/2008/11/111308_midsummer.html
YSHS ‘Midsummer’ mischief, mayhem with a ’50s flare
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| In their 1950s version of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Kelly Miller as Helena, center, is driven mad by her admirers, Demetrius, played by Max Fleishman, and Lysander, played by Adam Zaremsky, who is himself sought by Hermia, played by Zyna Bakari. The mischeivous Puck, Shelley Murphy, looks on from her perch. Performances will take place at Mills Lawn gym on Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 14, 15, 21 and 22 at 8 p.m., and Sundays, Nov. 16 and 23, at 2 p.m. |
If Shakespeare had lived in the 1950s, how he would have dressed, where he would have lived and the way he would have set his stage is surely just what the Yellow Springs High School thespians have dreamed up for the fall production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s a jeans-wearing, hightops-sporting Theseus spouting, “The lover, the lunatic and the poet are of imagination all compact,” and a Puck on Heelys to ruin or rescue on this retro-modern stage. But the poet’s beloved meter with its mischievous meanings and universal themes are timeless as ever, and many of the actors are enchanted by the magic of Shakespeare for the first time in their dramatic careers.
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“If you think about it in context and you try it, it’s easier than you think,” said Kelly Miller, who plays the lover Helena. “Shakespeare writes exactly what he wants” to communicate, Cromer said, and all of it, it turns out, “is very clever,” said Anne Weigand, who plays the fairy Peaseblossom.
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