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Lit Moon Year in Review - 2007

What a year for the Lit Moon Theatre Company! As the calendar falls, it’s but a bit over a year since the groundbreaking Lit Moon World Shakespeare Festival came and went from Santa Barbara’ stages. The festival featured nine full productions and 35 total events, and showcased companies from Sofia, Bulgaria; Legnica, Poland, Prague, the Czech Republic; Montreal, Canada; the UCSB Theatre Artists Group; Westmont College; and Lit Moon.

Then in June, the company produced another history-making event, the first repertory of Finnish plays ever staged in the United States. Lit Moon’s Midnight Sun Festival showcased great contemporary plays from some of Finland’s most distinguished writers, including Laura Ruohonen, Anna Krogerus, Sirkku Peltola and Mikka Millyaho, in fully staged productions of plays by Ruohonen and Krogerus, and staged readings of ones by Peltola and Millyaho.

The festival featured guest director Mikko Viherjuuri, the first Finnish director ever to stage a play for a professional American company, and marked the first productions of Finnish plays by a professional company from the United States.

“compelling… captivating… and evocative.”
--Elizabeth Schwyzer, “Santa Barbara Independent”

“profoundly imaginative and touching…”
--Charles Donelan, “Santa Barbara Independent”

During August and September, Lit Moon was busy creating and revising pieces for its fall tour, which included trips to Legnica, Poland; Podgorica and Kotor, Montenegro, and Skopje, Macedonia.

In Poland, the company developed a new piece inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s great comedy The Marriage, and played it on September 15th and 16th at the Festival Miasto, or City Festival, produced and sponsored by Teatr Modjeska from Legnica. The festival was devoted to world premieres of site-specific work, and Lit Moon performed The Wedding in the former Summer Theatre in the Park, now a derelict discotheque.

In late September, Lit Moon flew to Montenegro to play in the Festival of International Alternative Theatre in the country’s capitol Podgorica and in the gorgeous Adriatic seaside town of Kotor, which sits at the base of Southern Europe’s largest fjord. After performing on the 19th and 20th, we drove to Skopje, Macedonia, where we performed on the Young Open Theatre Festival on September 24th and 25th.

Then, we soon went our separate ways: the Blondells heading to Ohrid in Southern Europe, along with Hoffman , Connolly and Abbey; Dolas heading to Paris; with Paulsen and Brehm heading to trek across Spain.

Now, we’re back, and Lit Moon’s season is far from over.
Here’s what’s coming next!