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Olive Struts and Frets

​A theatre ghost is left with no one to haunt.
 
Character: OLIVE THOMAS, played by an actor in her early 20s
 
Setting: The stage of the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York
 
Time: 2021, when the theatres are closed

PictureVideo of Maille-Rose Smith (Olive)
Virtual Globe
Mattituck, New York
July 12, 2023​

​Performed by Maille-Rose Smith


PictureErica Knight (Olive)
Missing Applause
Go Solo
​ANDTheatre Company

Chain Theatre
New York, NY
​
March 18-20, 2022

Performed by Erica Knight

​Directed by Nazlah Black


PictureMaeve Devitt (Olive)
Tuesdays at 9 Chicago
Naked Angels
Chicago, Illinois
​October 26, 2021

Performed by Maeve Devitt


PictureCaitlyn Wright (Olive)
Haunted
Playwrights on Zoom
Brick Township
New Jersey
​October 23 & 31, 2021

Performed by Caitlyn Wright ​​

Directed by Jade Greene


PictureErica Knight (Olive)
Anything Goes! Theatre Lab
ANDTheatre Company
New York, NY
October 13, 2021

​Performed by Erica Knight



PictureIsabella Hart (Olive)
Scene Sessions
London

March 31, 2021

Performed by Isabella Hart


PictureAmber Kusching (Olive)
​Olive and the Ghost Light
3x3: Entanglements

Rough Magic Shakespeare Company
Daytona Beach, Florida
February 13, 2021

Performed by Amber Kusching

​​D
irected by Marisa Glidden


PictureRebecca Phythian (Olive)
Gasp
The Greater Manchester Fringe Festival
Manchester, UK
​November 28, 2020


Performed by ​Rebecca Phythian

Directed by Lita Doolan


Ghost Light Stories
Las Vegas Little Theatre
​Las Vegas, Nevada
​October 10-31, 2020

​Performed by Sabrina Close 

​Directed by Gillen Brey

Review: In the first monologue, “Olive Struts and Frets,” by Rex McGregor, Sabrina Close plays that theatre ghost you may have heard about; the reason theatres leave the single “ghost light” on the stage when the rest of the place is dark. Thus “Ghost Light Stories.” Directed by Gillen Brey, Close has delightful fun in deploring the lack of actors and crews, and audience during the pandemic. 
#Eat More Art- Vegas

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Sabrina Close (Olive)