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Coincidentally I forgot to post this last night.

[standlike-writing-desk]

Winter Miller, The Joker

There are very few variables that could lead to me not being as interested in researching a stand with, as far as I can tell, infinite potential. One of these rare variables is the user being Winter Miller, a woman I had not had the strange bemused displeasure of meeting until rather late, according to Vulcan’s records.

Perhaps a bit of story for the head of one of our… Competing organizations. A powerful one, on par with our Heartbreak, see the LUMP entry. Winter Miller, self proclaimed rival of Vulcan Crow, leader of a group she aptly named Soulshakers in between mailing us glitter bombs, likely a jab at the Heartbreak’s name. This organization did not become known to me until much later, after the Italy incidents, which will be detailed shortly. Winter, despite being a thorn in our side since before we were officially Heartbreakers, was never what we would consider a threat for quite some time. A stand with amazing potential that always fell flat once we gathered it’s tricks and managed to make a short list, though recently it seems that… there won’t be much longer before she is on the same level as some of the users detailed in my Italy report.

Winter’s stand is known as The Joker, which we were quite fond of using as joke ammo around the dinner table for quite some time, though it is clearly named for the wildcard it has come to be known as. The number 13 is very key here, as a wildcard can often take place of any other card in the deck if needed. With physical contact with another stand user and a base knowledge of one of their abilities, her stand can make a, slightly weaker, copy of it. She can store up to 13, replacing one when another ability is copied. This is not the entire stand’s ability set, but one piece of it that can act on it’s own. Take for example my stand, how it is able to give and take wounds, though the transactions are different enough functions that, upon catching me off guard with her increased power and new abilities, could give her only my ‘giving’ ability, bouncing back wounds without the ability to take them. This was simple in the beginning, before her group formed and ‘began to throw their stands to her feet’. She originally was only able to use one ability at a time, and in the right hands this alone would be quite exceptional, but with how… exceedingly eccentric she happens to be, it seemed more like a gimmick.

She’s been training, it seems.

Instead of only mimicking one ability at once out of her set of 13, she is now able to combine two abilities that can intertwine into a new ability, making it her ‘own’ in a way. This is far more formidable and speaks to just how limitless this ability could be in the right, or wrong, hands with enough training. She, however, often relies on only a few of these abilities, much to her credit, keeping us from being able to make a complete list. This factor alone keeps us more cautious, only knowing a handful of her subordinates powers to go off of.

Keep an eye out for pink pigtails and glitter and her obnoxious laugh. Do not engage if possible.

[waves-of-time]

Guys, I have something I need to tell you. You’re all characters in a dream I’m having. I’m going to wake up and go back to my world. But I don’t know what’s going to happen to you guys.

Winter, Scenes from the Suburbs

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WAM Theatre's "In Darfur" places the audience right in the middle of a war zone

WAM Theatre’s “In Darfur” places the audience right in the middle of a war zone

A gripping story, based on actual events.

WAM Theatre presents IN DARFUR by Winter Miller; directed by Kristen van Ginhoven; coordinating producer – Jessica Provenz; scenic designer – JulianaVon Haubrich; costume designer – Govane Lohbauer; lighting designer – Natalie Robin; sound and projections design – Brad Berridge; fight director – Douglas Seldin. Cast – Maryke – Tricia Alexandro;…

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WAM Theatre's "In Darfur" promises to deliver a powerful, immersive experience

WAM Theatre’s “In Darfur” promises to deliver a powerful, immersive experience

Previews begin October 30 for the season’s most unusual play by Larry Murray

Ever since WAM Theatre emerged five years ago it has never played by rules of traditional theatre. Certainly its productions are top quality, but the company has a mission to make a powerful impact on the lives of women, both locally and globally.

That…

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Sipiwe Moyo

Tricia Alexandro

ich Lounello,

The cast and creative team for ther New England premiere of Winter Miller’s In Darfur has been announced by WAM Theatre’s Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven Described as a timely, compelling drama, In Darfur will run from October 30 – November 16 at Shakespeare & Company in the Berry Family Studio of the Elayne P. Bernstein Center. Tickets are now available for purchase. Opening night, which is already sold out, is Saturday, November 1.

In Darfur, is to be staged in an immersive setting, the better to give its powerful and provocative tale an immediacy to its audience. The story itself is wound around the three lives that intersect in the most challenging of circumstances: a camp for internally displaced persons.

During the civil war in western Sudan, about two million children were affected by this conflict, About 6-8000 were conscripted as child soldiers, though not all were given weapons.

Sipiwe Moyo, who has performed Off-Broadway in Prometheus Bound at Classic Stage Company and Trojan Women at The Classical Theatre of Harlem, as well as on the James Spader NBC drama The Blacklist, will play Hawa, a Darfuri woman who has lost nearly everything yet maintains a quiet dignity in the face of constant peril.

Rich Lounello, who has appeared in Take Me Out and M. Butterfly at Capital Repertory Theatre and Laughter on the 23rd Floor at Oldcastle Theatre, and has wrapped film projects with Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) and Kate Flannery (The Office), takes on the role of Carlos, an aid worker striving to save the lives of Darfuri refugees and protect them from other ever-present threats.

Tricia Alexandro, who has appeared in Off Broadway productions with The Barrow Group, Looking Glass Theatre, and Gene Frankel Theatre, as well as in several independent films, takes on the role of Maryke, a journalist pursuing a front-page story to call attention to a humanitarian crisis.

Rounding out the cast are Christina Gordon (The Public Theatre and Shadowland Theatre; television’s Guiding Light); Shannon Harris (HERE Arts Center, Midtown International Theatre Festival); marcus d. harvey (Old Vic, London and various NYC stages); and Warren Jackson (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Chicago’s Court Theatre).

WAM Theatre has worked hard to find the ensemble of actors who will bring this story to life. These seven accomplished professional actors bring not only their talent and technique to this project, but also their deep passion to share this story with our audiences. I couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome them to the Berkshires and to WAM Theatre.” – Kristen van Ginhoven

For more about the production, go to www.WAMTheatre.com/In-Darfur.

Playwright Winter Miller was inspired to write In Darfur by the turmoil she witnessed as New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s researcher at the start of the Darfuri genocide in 2004. After winning the 2006 “Two-Headed Challenge” commission from the Guthrie Theater and the Playwrights’ Center, Miller traveled with Kristof to villages and refugee camps along the Chad/Sudan border. In Darfur premiered at The Public Theater in Manhattan for a three-week sold-out run; a subsequent staged reading in the Public’s 1800-seat Delacorte Theater in Central Park – a first for a play by a woman — drew a standing-room-only crowd.

When and where: WAM Theatre’s New England premiere of In Darfur runs from October 30 through November 16 at Shakespeare & Company’s Berry Family Studio in the Elayne P. Bernstein Center. Previews are October 30 & 31; opening night is Saturday, November 1. Performances take place on Friday and Saturday evenings at 7 pm and Sunday matinees at 2:30 pm. Tickets are $15-$40 and are available for purchase in person or by phone at the Shakespeare & Co. box office: 413-637-3353. Tickets are also available at www.tickets.shakespeare.org with a per ticket charge of $4.50 for online purchases.

About WAM Theatre – Based in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, WAM Theatre was co-founded in 2010 by Canadian director, actor, educator, and producer Kristen van Ginhoven, who was inspired to take action by the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. WAM Theatre’s philanthropic mission is two-fold: first, to create theatrical events for everyone, with a focus on women theatre artists and/or stories of women and girls; and second, to donate a portion of the proceeds from those events to organisations that benefit women and girls.

Over the past five years, WAM Theatre has donated more than $10,500 to six nonprofit organisations that help women and girls, and provided paid work to more than 100 theatre artists. In its fifth year, Artistic Director van Ginhoven has expanded WAM Theatre’s activities to include more performances in various venues, including educational outreach and the new Fresh Takes Play Reading Series at Six Depot Roastery and Café in West Stockbridge. For more information, visit www.WAMTheatre.com

About Shakespeare & Company – Located in The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, Shakespeare & Company is one of the largest Shakespeare Festivals in the country, founded in 1978 by Tina Packer. The organization attracts more than 60,000 patrons annually, with a core of over 150 artists and more than 30 full-time staff. The Company develops and performs Shakespeare, classics, contemporary, and new plays of social and political significance, generating opportunities for collaboration between actors, directors and designers of all races, nationalities and backgrounds. Shakespeare & Company embraces the core values of Shakespeare’s work: collaboration, commitment to language, visceral experience and classical ideals, expressed with physical prowess and an embodied contemporary voice.

The Company offers one of the most extensive actor training programs by a regional theatre in the country, where professionals from all over the world come to train with the Organization known for its original, in-depth, classical training and performance methods. Shakespeare & Company is also home to an award-winning and nationally recognized theatre-in-education program, one of the largest in the Northeast; it reaches more than 45,000 students annually with innovative performances, workshops and residencies. For more information, visit www.shakespeare.org.

WAM Theatre’s “In Darfur” sets cast for unusual refugee drama The cast and creative team for ther New England premiere of Winter Miller's In Darfur has been announced by WAM Theatre's Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven Described as a timely, compelling drama, …

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On Sunday, August 24, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, MA, WAM Theatre will celebrate their first five seasons with a panel discussion of extraordinary people effecting positive change through the arts. CHANGE MAKERS will benefit WAM Theatre and be hosted by Jayne Atkinson. The 45-60 minute panel discussion will also feature Jessica Blank, Winter Miller, John Stanmeyer, and Cynthia Wade. For tickets and more information, follow this link! 

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Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Step away, return. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Start a new play. Keep going. Keep going.

Winter Miller, Playwrights' Center Core Writer, on the best playwriting advice she's been given