Victor D'Altorio
in Caryl Churchill's
BLUE HEART
Cesear's Forum is in abeyance until late summer/early fall. Noted for interpreting smaller genre plays of some significance, the company produces intermittently and sparingly within its yearly season. Intimate, minimalist, professional and distinctly non-commercial, the company's capacities to operate from a truly non-profit perspective continue to be tested. Completing it's tenth season in Cleveland at Kennedy's Down Under, PlayhouseSquare, an unexpected royalty restriction halted production on an announced May/June offering. Time constraints (with regard to the artistic process and specificity of project), have led to a delay in the current producing cycle. An announcement concerning a September/October work will follow in the weeks ahead.
VICTOR D'ALTORIO
The actor, director, teacher and artist passed away in mid-November 2009. Mr. D'Altorio appeared with the company in 2003, having completed work on HAMLET with the Great Lakes Theatre Festival. As an actor, he had numerous Off-Broadway and regional credits and worked extensively in Chicago and Los Angeles. Productions included David Rabe's IN THE BOOM BOOM ROOM at the South Street Theatre, the Joanne Akalitas/Goodman theatre production of John Ford's 'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE and Sherry Kramer's THE WALL OF WATER at Yale Repertory Theatre, to name a few. Theatre associations include: Equity Library Theatre, LaMama, Westbank Café, The Court Theatre, Victory Gardens, The Montana Shakespeare Festival and the Parallax Theatre. He also worked in television. A respected director and acting teacher in his own right, he was associated with Chicago's Actors' Center and taught from his own private studio in Los Angeles. A description of Caryl Churchill's plays might also aptly apply to Victor: "Funny, sharing an anarchic wit, joyously flouting theatrical conventions while providing an unexpected form of poignancy and heady pleasure."
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