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Bread & Water Theatre was
officially founded in the fall of 2000, by J.R.
Teeter, and marked with an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus,
the classic tragedy of the learned German doctor who sells his soul to
the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.
Picture 1: Valdez (Emily Doyle);
Picture 2: Robin (Emily Doyle) and Ralph
(Carl Girard);
Picture 3: Mephistopheles (Lauren Firlit) in Dr. Faustus.
BWT next produced Night
Passengers (2001) by Candide Carrasco. What first appears to
be the beginnings of a one-night-stand becomes a tale of two lost souls
falling in love. The woman is a mature and sophisticated French ex-patriot. The man is a young college student afraid of big city
life.
Bread
& Water Theatre formally incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation
in 2003 and later achieved 501(c)3 tax exempt status with the IRS
(2004). This started a long process of codifying BWT's mission
statement and process of operation. During this time the theatre
produced The Yellow Wallpaper, The Little Prince
and reintroduced The Rainbow Theater Festival to the
Rochester area.
Picture 4: Carl Girard and J.R. Teeter in The Little Prince.
Picture 5: Marcy J. Savastano and Carl Girard in The Yellow
Wallpaper.
Picture 6: Patrick White and Chris Barrett in The Night
Before the Morning After.
Picture 7: Bryan Adams and Manuel Psychos in Raspberry Swirl
Cheesecake.
With a
dedicated ensemble of actors working on stage and off to provide the
best possible theatrical experiences to our audience, BWT looks to the
future with the below mission statement as our guide.
"This theatre is
committed to making the arts accessible and affordable to a broad-based
audience and acting as a positive agent of change in its community.
Under the artistic direction of J.R. Teeter, BWT develops theatre
that speaks to our living, evolving, and dramatically-changing world
through new works of drama, original adaptations of classic texts,
rejuvenation of rare plays and aspires to be a major force in American
theatre, providing audiences with challenging contemporary drama and
innovative community outreach programs."
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