While we are used to seeing movies about Apollo missions, we are less accustomed to seeing them onstage. A.D. Players is changing that.
The other challenge is with portraying the technology. “‘Apollo 8’ was written to be as flexible as possible with staging. It could easily be done on a blank stage or with massive and complex technical elements,” McGhan says. “In this case, A.D. Players committed to the latter. This show is one of the most technically complex we’ve ever produced. It utilizes an immense amount of projection, lights, sound, scenic transitions, costume changes and properties.
In a blast of career synchronicity, “Apollo 8” is debuting just as McGhan is beginning his new role as artistic director. “I’ve spent the last 20 years simultaneously straddling the professional theater world and higher education — having served as an artistic director, department chair, school director and dean at a number of institutions.
Going forward, he doesn’t see radical changes in direction. “A.D. Players will continue to exist to serve everyone — you don’t need to profess a Christian faith to take part in the art that we create, as either audience or practitioner, but neither will we shy away from our identity and purpose,” he says.
Yet for McGhan, past is prologue. “When I began writing the play a few years ago, I had no idea that 2022 would look a lot more like 1968 than anyone could imagine — a deeply divided country, global unrest, the onset of a new Cold War,” says McGhan. “The Apollo 8 mission was, at its very essence, a pause for the world, a chance to see ourselves from the celestial bodies and realize that we all share the same reality.
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