WEEKLY PHOTO QUIZ FROM THE DENVER POST ARCHIVES:
THIS WEEK’S PHOTO:
Your clue: “If my clues leave you over a barrel, don’t sweat it. Half of what I say means something else, and the other half doesn’t mean anything at all.”
Register your guess as a comment at the bottom of this story, including actors, company and show title.
LAST WEEK’S ANSWER:
Your clue was:
“If you can I.D. this one, then saints be praised.”
Praise be to Jeremy Cole, who writes: “That would be my dear friend Guy Williams and Dan Hiester in CityStage Ensemble’s ‘Sinners and Saints’ (a double-bill consisting of two one-act plays by Peter Barnes, ‘Leonardo’s Last Supper’ and ‘Noonday Demons’ at Jack’s).”
Not to be persnickety, but seeing as Jeremy has won approximately 103 of our 107 photo quizzes to date, I should point out the actual title was ‘Geniuses, Madmen & Saints.’ Guy played St. Prior and Hiester was St. Eusebius in the latter play (therein lies the clue).
Here’s a bit of trivia, for all of you kids who are battering, snapping and slicing one another on stages throughout Colorado under the tutelage of Geoff Kent: “GM&S” was Geoff’s first-ever fight-directing gig.
And he describes the play as, “Two monks battling on a pile of poo.”
Christopher Leo, who was also making his debut as a director, has a more pulchritudinous take on the tale: “Dan and Guy gave maniacally inspired performances as dueling first-millenium ascetic monks out to prove their
superior worthiness as servants of God.
“My suggestion to title the evening ‘Geniuses, Madmen & Saints’ was an effort to incorporate the major themes of both plays. ‘Leonardo’s Last Supper’ was an equally hilarious and ghoulish take on how Leonardo Da Vinci really died. So we have a genius (Leonardo), madmen (the family of charnel house owners who kill him when it turns out that he wasn’t really dead when he was brought to them for embalming), and saints (Eusebius and Pior).
“How I miss that wonderful, low-ceilinged intimate space. It was an actor’s dream, offering the unforgettable feeling of being enveloped — embraced, really — by the audience from each side. And I don’t know of a single person who played there that doesn’t feel the same way.”
By the by, Leo will be helming the upcoming “Arcadia” for Firehouse, and now that I think about it, there’s a clue in that little bit of trivia that may help you solve this week’s new photo.
