{"id":118243,"date":"2026-01-14T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118243\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:37:15","slug":"dangers-of-mountaineering-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118243\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangers of mountaineering \u2013 on stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Actor Seth Henley-Beasley is playing a character who loves mountain climbing but is afraid of heights.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>On The Town at <a href=\"https:\/\/stageworkstheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stageworks Theatre<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Touching the Void opens January 16 and runs througn February 1<br \/>\n<br \/>The venue is located at 1120 E. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa<br \/>\n<br \/>Price for entry is $50, with discounts<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are not super experienced with like theatre and you think \u2018I\u2019m going to sit around in a stuffy room and watch some people walk around on a set,\u2019 No. That\u2019s not what you are coming to see actually,\u201d said Henley-Beasley.<\/p>\n<p>Touching the Void is opening at <a href=\"https:\/\/stageworkstheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stageworks Theatre<\/a>, and it takes place on a mountainside. Two mountaineers survive a climbing accident in the Peruvian Andes. But not before one climber cuts a safety rope and lifeline&#8211;thinking the other is dead.<\/p>\n<p>It underscores the dangers of mountain climbing and the sometimes impossible choices one must face to survive. This is based on a true story of incredible survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, this show kind of has an added bonus, where we do a lot of stunts,\u201d said Henley-Beasley.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s thanks in part to the set. Backstage, builders spent eight hours assembling the pieces of their mountain set.<\/p>\n<p>Stunt actor Brianna McVaugh portrays a frightened novice climber learning the ropes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fun to sing. It\u2019s fun to dance. My niche and my love in theatre will always be physical. Any kind of physical movement, if it\u2019s rolling on the floor, hanging from the rafters,\u201d said McVaugh.<\/p>\n<p>McVaugh and Henley-Beasley are joined on set by Luis Rivera and Robert Logan Mays, who portray real life climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there\u2019s always this little risk of danger when it\u2019s live. If you are recording and someone- something happens, you can stop and do another take. We don\u2019t get another take. So I think it\u2019s well worth the jump in heart rate,\u201d said Henley-Beasley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Actor Seth Henley-Beasley is playing a character who loves mountain climbing but is afraid of heights.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28,115,4094,7149,139,135,137,136,7148,835],"class_list":["post-118243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-on-the-town","tag-on-the-town-app","tag-orlando","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-virginia-johnson","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}