 I'm Kathleen Keenan, I'm the Producing Artistic Director of Lost Nation Theatre and it has been my privilege and pleasure to direct Around the World in 80 Days. Around the World in 80 Days is a very well-known, probably one of the most adapted novels of all time by Jules Verne, takes place in 1872 and there have been movies and very big musicals and straight plays and this is an adaptation by Mark Brown which is a kind of vaudevillian, campy, five-actor comic romp version of Around the World in 80 Days so we had to figure out how we were going to tell this amazing epic madcap story with five actors. You know it really is just engaging on so many levels, it is like a giant circus. You come to watch the actors play and thus the audience is playing along with them. It was so much fun for us as well as the audience because you never know what's going to happen next or where we're going to be because there's only five actors that play multiple different roles. I think that's such a silly fun thing for an audience to see the pit crew come on stage and literally like change us on stage and then transform into a different character. So I play 16 different characters and one of my favorite things about the show is just jumping from one to the next and popping out of a different location in a completely different outfit. I think that's a lot of fun. It's vaudeville style which just that's fun period for audience and performers and it's also just really fun all the different accents that are flying around and just watching one actor transform from one person to another so quickly is really amazing. It just feels like a big magic show. I'm the only actor in the show who's only playing one character actually. I'm playing Philius Fogg. I'm a proper English gentleman with a mysterious background and a lot of money to spare and one day I get in this crazy bet with some other members of my social club that I'm going to travel around the world and I'm going to do it in 80 days or less because I know it's possible. And saving my life was that simply mathematics. My biggest part is I play Aouda who is Philius Fogg and meets her on his journey around the world and she goes along on the journey with them. She continues with them and maybe some sparks start to fly between them. I really like the story between Nick and I, our characters between Fogg and Aouda and I love all of our moments together. I also really love all of the big ensemble scenes when we're all five of us together. Working on the set that Clay has provided, it feels like a circus. It's sort of between all the doors and windows and things that you can pop out of and revolving sets. It seems like it provides ample opportunity for every single travel to be a totally different type of travel. Every aspect of what makes theatre a magical thing is on display in this show. Come see Around the World in 80 Days at Lost Nation Theatre now through July 23rd.