Marsan, who has participated in three plays at BC, joined Candide to learn more about comedic theatre, she said. “The characters play multiple roles at once, and even physical objects like water or a sheep. “The technical aspects of the play are very ambitious,” Diana Marsan, cast member and MCAS ’25, said. But according to Pinkham, despite the difficulty of the play and the challenges it has faced, the cast has found the struggles-and the creative solutions they have been forced to use in response to these struggles-rewarding. Through putting the play together, these students have had big ideas that have fallen flat on their faces, Pinkham said. The production of the play reflects this message, as Pinkham’s cast of 16 students has the opportunity to showcase what they learned in class in a real-life execution. “Happiness is proven to be somewhat elusive throughout human history, and the best chance that Voltaire sees for us to retain happiness is to work with the things that are in front of us, the people that are around us,” Pinkham said. The message of the play is pretty simple, according to Pinkham. “To kind of bring a bit of the profession and the outside world from a knowing place.” “I felt like Candide was a good choice because it’s about these students learning something about the outside world and that felt like in part what my role is this semester,” Pinkham said.
BRYCE PINKHAM CHARACTERS FULL
In school, the students were taught that everything happens for a reason, but as they face a chaotic world full of war, natural disasters, and senseless pain, this philosophy begins to conflict with their reality. Pinkham said Candide follows the story of students who discover the incompatibility of the real world through their education. “ Candide is a really old play and has been put on many different times, but it’s interesting how we’ve been able to put it on in a new way.” “ is open to all ideas,” Elisa Falanga, Candide cast member, student of Pinkham, and MCAS ’23, said. “They’ve taken this, you know, dusty old show and they’ve made it their own, and the production I think, celebrates the performers as much as the show.”Īccording to Pinkham, most of his cast members are students in his “Reckless Creativity and The Physical Actor” course, which allows him to see the students working to bring the ideas and lessons they’ve learned in class to life in the production. “What they’ll end up performing during Arts Fest will be something that is truly theirs,” Pinkham said. Based on Voltaire’s novel of the same name, the theatre department’s production of Candide is an adapted operetta and satirical play that has been transformed by Pinkham and his students. But this time, he will play the role of director rather than cast member.Ĭandide will run on the Robsham Theater mainstage from April 26 to 29 at 7:30 p.m.
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And that’s part of the reason I was thrilled to be asked to come back and work with students, now as a professional actor, and director.”Īs a part of his return to campus, Pinkham is revisiting Candide, a play he was involved in when he was a student at BC. “And like the students that I’m directing now, you know, I was there late hours working on different projects and putting all of my creative energy and reckless creativity into those projects. “I just sort of got the bug and took my hobby all the way to BC where I spent a lot of time in … theatre when I was a student,” Pinkham said. The outlet that Pinkham’s parents found for him was theatre performance, a hobby that led him to double major in communication and theatre at BC and continue to pursue a professional career as an actor and director after college, Pinkham said. This conference inspired the name of the course Pinkham is currently teaching at Boston College as the visiting Monan professor in theatre arts: Reckless Creativity and The Physical Actor. When actor and singer Bryce Pinkham, BC ’05, was in first grade, his teacher called his parents into a conference to tell them that they needed to find an outlet for their son’s “reckless creativity.”
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