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Not Yet Diagnosed







Not Yet Diagnosed Nervous 1918 Not Yet Diagnosed
Not Yet Diagnosed Nervous 1918 Not Yet Diagnosed

photos: Dixie Sheridan (click to enlarge)





Passalaqua: Margo Passalaqua
Tooley: Ian Tooley
Demas: George Demas
Crabb: David Crabb
Barnhart: Brian Barnhart
Mark: Marc Palmieri
Sterling: Jim Sterling
Film: Laurie Kilmartin, David Balutanski

Director: Randy Sharp
Production Design: Kate Aronsson-Brown
Light Design: David Zeffren
Sound Design: Steve Fontaine
Assist Light Design: Amy Harper
Production Stage Manager: Jared Abramson
Assistant Stage Manager: Kate Aronsson-Brown
Film/DV: Dan Hersey
Assistant Camera: Chano Cabiya
Set Construction: John Widger, Josh Drew, Andy Smith
Brandon Taylor, Jason Grunwald, Evan Gregg
Welding: Chris Bundy
Website & Graphics: Ethan Crenson
Publicity Photography: Dixie Sheridan

Executive Producer: Jeffrey Resnick
Company Manager: Brian Barnhart
Box Office Manager: Daniel Albanese

Special Thank You
Paula Cianci, French Embassy Cultural Services
Doug Gangler, WWI & II Specialty Tours
Mary Sharp-Cronson

The Producers wish to thank the tdf Costume Collection for its assistance in this production.
This production is made possible by a generous grant from the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation.




AXIS COMPANY PRESENTS

Not Yet Diagnosed (Nervous) 1918

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8PM



After WWI thousands of veterans suffered from a serious mental condition that the bewildered medical community labeled "Shell Shock." Their complex symptoms ranged from total immobilization or a state of panic at the slightest provocation, to a complete failure even to realize that they had returned home. Doctors were unable to navigate their hallucinatory world and simply categorized them as Not Yet Diagnosed (Nervous). In their struggle to return to a normal life, what visions were endlessly replayed? What memories did they desperately try to decipher or forget? What was it like to live in this state of nervous dissolution, fear and confusion where no one was familiar and nothing seemed the same?

Axis Company's Spring show Not Yet Diagnosed (Nervous) 1918 concerns the effects of the extreme shell shock suffered by WWI veterans following their service. Set in an allied trench during 1918 a small group of American soldiers wake to find themselves abandoned by everyone on the battlefield, including the Germans. On this desolate landscape everyone from the Army Photographic Corps specialist to the loneliest infantry soldier tries to piece together what may have happened during the night. Were they left behind? Is the war over? Are they already home? Is there anybody out there?

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Further reading:
FirstWorldWar.com
The Great War Society



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