A Vermont professional theater company will be one of the first in the nation to stage live, in-person, indoor productions when it returns six months after the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Northern Stage will present the one-woman production “It’s Fine, I’m Fine” by Stephanie Everett from Oct. 7-25 at the Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction. Tickets for the production, directed by Northern Stage producing artistic director Carol Dunne, went on sale to the general public Wednesday.
The three major theatrical artist unions – the Actors’ Equity Association, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and United Scenic Artists – have approved the production. That makes Northern Stage only the third professional theater in the country to get the go-ahead for live programming since the start of the pandemic.
The template Northern Stage laid out Tuesday in a news release might guide other theater companies in Vermont looking to return to the stage after the pandemic shut them down in mid-March. Safety precautions Northern Stage is taking for the production include:
- Weekly COVID-19 testing of artists
- Upgrading the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system with finer filters to increase the ratio of fresh air to recirculated air indoors
- Requiring everyone in the building to be masked at all times except the actor when she is performing; Everett, the sole performer in her play, will remain 16 feet away from all other people
- Mandatory health screenings and temperature checks for everyone entering the facility each day
- Enforced social distancing with audience capacity limited to less than 25 percent of normal occupancy
- Limited time congregating; “It’s Fine, I’m Fine” is 60 minutes with no intermission
- Use of provided hand sanitizer and hand washing will be “highly encouraged while on site”
“It’s Fine, I’m Fine” sounds like an apt title for a play being staged during a pandemic but goes back to 2018 when Everett wrote the script as part of her Dartmouth College “experiential term” at Northern Stage. The play follows Everett as she deals with the abrupt end of her varsity soccer career at the college just over the Vermont border in New Hampshire.
If you go
WHAT: “It’s Fine, I’m Fine” by Stephanie Everett
WHEN: Oct. 7-25 in person; available to be streamed on demand Oct. 22-Nov. 29
WHERE: Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction
INFORMATION: $17.75-$43.75 for tickets. (802) 296-7000, www.northernstage.org
Contact Brent Hallenbeck at bhallenbeck@freepressmedia.com. Follow Brent on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/BrentHallenbeck.
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