5-20-2023 12:32am

Alamogordo Experimental Theater Performance of Ghost Town a Rousing Success

Chris Edwards Editor

Ghost Town Alamogordo Experimental Theater at Otero Arts (photo by Otero Arts) AlamogordoTownNews.com

Alamogordo Experimental Theater hosted its very first performance at Otero ArtSpace Friday May 19th to a resounding success. The audience was standing room only and enthusiastically embraced this unique experience In performance art for Alamogordo.

Otero Arts has partnered with the Alamogordo Experimental Theater Company to offer free acting workshops and present small-scale theater productions at Otero Artspace with Friday’s performance of “Ghost Town” as the first of what participants hope to be many more productions of this unique art form of experimental expression.

The play “Ghost Town” tells the story of rural America as factories and small farms shut down across rural America, small towns are abandoned making ghost towns. The songs and poetry of Ghost Town in Friday’s experimental theater performance at Otero Arts, 1118 Indiana, Alamogordo, New Mexico told the stories of those left behind.

Alamogordo Experimental Theater Company offers beginning actors aged 14 and up as well as seasoned theatrical professionals a chance to develop and hone their talents to put on original, experimental shows. They are looking for actors, dancers, theater techs, and musicians to meet once a week to create unique theater experiences.

Classes include a brief physical and vocal warmup, participants interact with the class in theater games designed to stretch your acting and team building skills.

Alamogordo Experimental Theater Company was created by Nathan Young, an Alamogordo native, and his wife Paige.

Nathan grew up on Holloman Air Force Base and acted in several shows at the Flickinger before he joined the Air Force.

Nathan is an alumnus of the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts, in NYC and holds a degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Texas, at El Paso. He starred on TV, Broadway and NYs’ famous Shakespeare in The Park. He is retired from the El Paso School District where he taught theater arts. Paige is a retired art teacher and social worker from NY.

Nathan and Paige created and ran the Kingston Experimental Theater Company, in Upstate NY from 2018 to 2020. KETC met regularly and performed two of Nathan's original musicals to great acclaim.

For more information, call Nathan at 914-388-4576. Congratulations on an outstanding opening at Otero Arts Friday May 19th, 2023. May more wonderful productions come from this awesome concept.

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Shari Adkisson Neighbor

5-20-2023 9:59pm

It was a fantastic performance, and I hope that they continue with this great experiment! Congratulations to the cast and crew. Alamo will be a better place for this group.