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Get your own Free Home PageThe show,"Dark Currents," centers around a town called Hawk's Landing.But any resident of Mattawamkeag will see some familiar sights and faces on the program.
The show stars local people with no acting experience, a main character named Seth Kane, who escapes from a mental institution in the first show, and has locations ranging from Baxter State Park to sections of Interstate 95.
"The show centers around a small town where everything looks normal, but isn't," said Lucas Knight, who is director, writer, and co-producer. "Dark Currents" is a "continuing drama," he said, like "Twin Peaks" and "Dark Shadows."
Knight, a graduate of the New England School of Broadcasting in Bangor who works at Keag Video in Mattawamkeag, and Frank Welch, a sophomore at Mattawamkeag Academy, began thinking about working on a possible show about a year ago. Originally, the two had wanted to write stories together, Welch said, when they considered making their own show.
Episode one has been finished and the second is being completed, with Knight working behind the camera and Welch acting, writing, and co-producing.
About 30 people in the community have helped out with the show with a construction worker, truck driver and an unemployed person taking some of the main parts.
Jason Gagnon describes his character, Mark Jones, as a "rough character," who in one scene had a shirt covered with blood. Due to the mystery involved in the show, Gagnon siad he is not sure how his character got all that blood on him.
Although he acts on the show for fun and sometimes has difficulty with the script, he said he would like to perform in other productions if he has the chance.
"The biggest thing I enjoy is completing a tape(of the show)and watching it," he said.
Bob McCarthy was another town resident who starred in the show, but his character died in the first show after bleeding to death.
No one has been paid yet, but each person has been promised a percentage of the profits, Knight said.
They plan to have four shows to be aired in January on the Mattawamkeag Cable System.
"After that we'll take a break and see how they're received," Knight said.
He would like to make copies of the show and distribute them to video stores as a way to get into the videocassette market and see it run on other cable systems
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