a box of letters and documents on earth from a task at Northampton's Academy of
Music
reveals a mysterious story a scandal power and politics
that played out at the academy now early forties all amazed at what the documents
unleashed he can use executive director ultimately realized she had a planner
hands
wtby producer my love the pay and videographer mark reinhardt
set out to learn more it was unfortunate
for newspaper without contract already how does this story
manager had been deemed succeed mister shaughnessy
20 within document it is true however that we either we see
didn't mean to me and how we considered most competent
carry on to conduct business and the Academy of Music
this latter was one
many matters that came in a letter box found that two years ago
under the front passenger vans munitions bath your
accurately without the knowledge that your bored hundred-point
missed block: has to miss walker herself we were
absolutely in person matter d
matterease from be Henry
lip income industries to be
born two actors describing near not fat weepy
on board of directors hiring mildred Walker
and manager to take place a bid and
manager franchisee he went off to military
service in 1941 it had never been customary
our business have women managers for is a general exterior
deposition in a theater manager required the guy in
firm hand Amir when I took this letter back home with me
and read through the document I realized that we are crying
can in no way Deborah handed me this
file and almost immediately got really excited so I
tell right away it was there was a real story here this character this conflict
there was an incident which happened
that that when pressure on us he was caught a military service in late
nineteen forty
and you have mildred at that point thing there by Frankie the manager
and that all these outrageous documents I'm in the conflict flying back and
forth in it escalating
for syriza really extraordinary and in some ways quite funny
but unusual circumstances at one point actually mildred lock rifkin
as associates out of the building when they were on break for the summer
they're actually forced to close down the theater for the summer and orders
obviously upset about that then
complicating the situation their accusations that when the documents
that accuse mildred budging payroll and a double selling tickets
the leafy displeasure reporter track be preparing a one
took them to court for interference has weathered
yes eventually people aren't masakane mildred
lost her job and with the industry's lost their contract
with the Academy of Music year
Frank tonal language not it matter if
now just spoke to me and dad it was
a through ball kami here happiest the strong one man just you know leading the
charge
and on you and defining the term
yes ma'am he was the service industry was shaped the play actually resembles
my intuition very very blessed night that I read all the documents I saw that
there is the shape from 1940 to 1942
latched onto that what really enriched at was
actually finding out a lot more about the individuals as much as I can
the military draw picture in my mind I'll what it might be like
and been to get a picture from China Sea from the documents and from other things
that
I discovered about what kind of person he was Mildred's very clear work to me
what kind of person she was she's a very strong track
force and a very compelling protagonist so she develops as well
they also have their own ways of speaking the other thing that I did
is title a lotta resurgent daily life in Northampton
connected specifically to the Academy I went through that
Daily Hampshire Gazette I scoured at but the politics were
what movies were showing all the different theaters at a given time
and the advertising so I now have this very rich sense
like back to 1942 1942 I'd say the plane right now it may be that
10 percent is actually verbatim from the documents the other
ninety percent is fictionalized but its fictionalized
whenever possible based on things that I understand are really taking place
circumstances at the time
early what happens next in
Harley inches the draft hmm my
arm and marine exercise between through workshops
and then for their she this story
moving priority bringing be
before production we hope to have staged in October
2014 night higher chance in the first place I've learned on
local history how much be Academy
review place
me impact on be different players decisions that were made
how North Hampton views its local members and how the Board of Trustees
supported not because she wants on and local
rampant my also murder one about wiping
women's roles were gap between nineteen
pretty how Mallory bad
today this is what life's about about working with other people
collaborating on something creative to create something that wasn't there
before
I think the mystery in the past and the questions in the past
trying to fill in the gaps in a story like this using Internet in Asian
his such an important task in such an amazing has had something that we don't
often ask myself today workers were
always so obsessed about what's next but predicting the future for analysis
when the pastor such a bitch investigation think it