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All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play
By Werner Trieschmann.Synopsis from dramaticpublishing.com
Based on several disastrous theatrical experiences, Bad Play peels back a tattered curtain to examine the process of putting on a show that is less than good. A stuffy narrator (what bad play is complete without a stuffy narrator?) guides the audience through the whole sorry process. We go from the audition—where the director is more worried about roast beef than paying attention to the warm-up exercise, and the neurotic cast pretends to be bacon—to rehearsals—where a passive-aggressive stage manager gives everyone grief. There’s also a special meeting of the Small Part Support Group and a production of Romeo and Juliet set in a Starbucks with costumes of potato sacks and bowler hats. This bad play within a play won’t win any awards, but All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play will keep audiences in stitches.
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Marriage is Murder, by Nick Hall
Gaslight Theater, Hallowell, Maine
2018 Season, August 24, 25, 26 & 31, Sept 1 and 2Full Length Play, Comedy
cast: one woman, one manEx-spouses Paul and Polly Butler write murder mysteries together. They act out the crimes in Paul’s apartment: poisoned chocolates and lethal martinis, alibis and fingerprints, bodies in a trunk and bodies all tied up, daggers, guns and even an axe all contribute to the hilarity. Nobody gets hurt, but their egos take some hits as they find that their marriage was mixed up with their work. There are many fast paced comic twists as they attempt to outdo and surprise each other and they learn that marriage, like murder, is in the details. The final witty complication is a real murder which they and the audience should have seen coming. This murderously funny two character comedy is by the author of Accommodations.
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Not about Nightingales by Tennessee Williams
Gaslight Theater, Hallowell, Maine
2018 Season, October 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28An early work by the revered playwright that caused a sensation in Houston, New York, and London. This is a raw, sprawling dramatization of real events at a Philadelphia prison in 1937. Convicts who led a hunger strike to protest conditions were locked in a scalding cell where four of them died. The sympathetic treatment of blacks and homosexuals was revolutionary for the time of the premiere and may explain why the play remained unproduced for sixty years.
NOMINEE! 1999 Tony Award for Best Play
PAST REVIEWS
“Enthralling…A feverish, full strength compassion for people in cages makes Nightingales fly toward a realm of pain and beauty that is the province of greatness…The emotions, both savage and painfully delicate, that saturate this work are arguably more rich and varied in tone than those of any American dramatist…The voices of Williams’s entrapped nightingales…refuse to fade when the play is plunged into its concluding darkness.” – The New York Times
“The best American play so far this season…It adds to the reputation of one of America’s greatest playwrights.” – The New York Daily News
“Fascinating.” – The New York Post
“Changes our perception of a major writer and still packs a hefty political punch.” – London Independent
DETAILS
Time Period: 1930s
Setting: A large American prison during the summer of 1938.
Features / Contains: Period CostumesCASTING
9m, 3f
THE VOICE OF THE LORELEI
MRS. BRISTOL
EVA CRANE
JIM ALLISON (Canary Jim)
BOSS WHALEN – the warden
JACK BRISTOL (Sailor Jack)
SCHULTZ – a guard
BUTCH O’FALLON
THE QUEEN
JOE
MCBURNEY – a guard
OLIVER ARMSTEAD (Ollie)
SHAPIRO
JEREMY TROUT (Swifty)
MEX
KRAUSE
ALBERTS
TOM
CHAPLAIN
REVEREND HOOKER
GOLDIE
CHICK
GUARDS, CONVICTS, TROOPERSTennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) explores passion with daring honesty, and forged a poetic theatre of raw psychological insight that shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. The autobiographical The Glass Menagerie brought what Mr. Williams called “the catastrophe of success,” a success capped by A Streetcar Named Desire, one of the most influential works of modern American literature. An extraordinary series of masterpieces followed, including Vieux Carre, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Rose Tattoo, Orpheus Descending, and the classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. -
Auditions
Auditions for Marriage is Murder, our next show is June 17 and 18 Hallowell City Hall at 6 Two actors — one man one woman as husband and wife
“Marriage is Murder” by Nick Hall
Show dates: August 24, 25, 26 & 31, Sept 1 and 2
Showtimes are 7:30 pm Fridays & Saturdays, with Sunday matinees at 2pm
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2018 Season
March
Two one acts- “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and “Sonata for Armadillos” by Jon Tuttle
Show dates March 2, 3, 4 & March 9, 10, 11
Showtimes are 7:30 pm Fridays & Saturdays, with Sunday matinees at 2pm.June
“Witness for the Prosecution” by Agatha Christie
show dates June 15, 16, 17 & June 22, 23, 24
Showtimes are 7:30 pm Fridays & Saturdays, with Sunday matinees at 2pm.August
“Marriage is Murder” by Nick Hall
Show dates August 24, 25, 26 & 31, Sept 1 and 2
Showtimes are 7:30 pm Fridays & Saturdays, with Sunday matinees at 2pm.
Read more about this show.>>November
“Not About Nightingales” by Tennessee Williams
Show dates October 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28
Showtimes are 7:30 pm Fridays & Saturdays, with Sunday matinees at 2pm.
Read more about this show. >>
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