Read the full article by Dave Kempa at Sacramento News & Review
It’s always a joy to see where the peripatetic Green Valley Theatre Company is going to pop up for its next production.
In this summer’s “The Three Musketeers,” they’re putting on a wonderfully choreographed show in one of the more unusual settings you’ll experience in live theater.
The quirky roving troupe has transformed St. John’s Lutheran Church’s Midtown “church hall” — which is regularly employed, among other uses, as a venue for feeding the unhoused community — into a double-sided venue. Director Christopher Cook, in his side gigs as set/costume/lighting/sound designer, places the 60-person audience right onstage with the performers, in rows down opposite sides of the open-room stage.
The result is a delightfully intimate experience with multiple vantage points from which the audience can enjoy chaotic, dynamic fight scenes.