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Scott RC Levy (top) reviews notes with lead carpenter
Brantley Haines. Photo by Moxie Photography
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Here's a Q&A with Scott RC Levy, the Producing Director & Director of Performing Arts at the FAC:
What were the biggest challenges to putting a novel on stage?
How to make the characters' sitting around and talking a lot theatrically engaging—there's not any singing or dancing! There are a lot of words in this play and to make it engaging and to really focus on the storytelling is a welcome challenge.
What's your favorite part of working on a theatre version of Of Mice and Men?
I really like working on these types of plays because it allows me to do very specific moment-to-moment emotional work, because it's the way that they're telling the story that is most important. To be able to dive into these speeches and to figure out why they are using and speaking these sentences in a particular grammatical way is very heady kind of stuff. It's what I love about these types of plays.
What makes this work so compelling, especially for the stage?
It is more about the relationships between the characters—mainly George and Lennie. Their relationship is so interesting and so rich that we get to see it in many different levels throughout the play, like in how they interact with these other people they're just meeting for the first time. [It becomes] more than a scene, it is about how these two men react to other people.
What attracts you to Of Mice and Men?
I've always been a big fan of Steinbeck and I really personally enjoy early 20th century Americanism, and thats what Steinbeck likes; he writes about the common man. Even though this particular story is 75 years old, still very relevant to American society today. It's definitely an American classic and it really does hold 75 years after it was written. It still feels fresh.

CAST MEMBERS:
George........................
Lennie........................
Candy.........................
The Boss..........................
Curley........................
Curley's Wife..........................
Slim..........................
Carlson.......................
Whit..........................
Crooks........................
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