Past Performances:
The Big Bank
By Jacob and Daniel Seligmann
Thursday, July 21st - 31st, 2011
First United Methodist Church
23 Willow Street, Mystic, CT
The Big Bank is a fun, hopeful and moving musical comedy about foreclosure, greed, money, life and love that couldn't be more perfect for our time. The Big Bank is a mortgage lender in Brooklyn that is furnished wall-to-wall with the loot from repossessed estates. Their philosphy is, "We respossess and make you wish you'd never taken a loan..." One of the bankers, Stuart Stevens, falls in love with a woman whose flower shop he must foreclose on...
Living in the Wind
BY MICHAEL BRADFORD
March 11-20, 2011
Union Baptist Church, 119 High Street, Mystic, CT
The play takes place on a front porch in Georgia and opens in the hot stretch of June. Married as slaves and separated on the night of thier marriage, Sarah and Isaiah are reunited after twelve years. They attempt to salvage a past amidst the constant reminders from the dead who are just as real as the living and breathing reminders of Hattie and Vance Williams, who live just down the road. And all of this is done for the sake of possibilities, for the future. At stake is a chance to be whole, to be treated as necessary as the space that one occupies. At stake is the ability to love completely and to have the capacity to be loved.
Harriet Tubman's Dream
BY LISA GIORDANO
Saturday, February 5, 2011, @ 7pm
Writers Block, 446 Coleman Street, New London, CT
Friday, February 11, 2011, @ 12 pm - This is closed to the public
St. Joseph School. 25 Squire Street, New London, CT
In Harriet Tubman's Dream by Lisa Giordano, Tubman is portrayed giving one of her storytelling performances in Boston. Harriet Tubman was an African American abolitionist, anti-slavery activist, suffragist and one of the greatest American humanitarians that ever lived. After escaping slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to personally rescue over seventy slaves with the help of the Underground Railroad, and she helped another 60 slaves plan and carryout their own escapes.
Love Letters
BY AR GURNEY
February 14, 2011
Special Valentine's Dinner Theater Performance at RiverWalk Restaurant in Mystic
The play centers on just two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, they sit side by side at tables and read the notes, letters and cards - in which over nearly 50 years, they discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats - that have passed between them throughout their separated lives.
Waiting for Lefty
BY CLIFFORD ODETS
October 1-3, Colchester Federated Church, 60 Main St. Colchester, CT
October 8-10, Latham Chester Store, 108 Main St, Noank, CT
In Waiting for Lefty, Odets captures the lives of the six people on whom his play focuses. Each is a taxicab driver. Each has a story to tell. The six characters come from different walks of life but have one thing in common: They are forced by economic necessity to become tax cab drivers. Ask yourself... are we so different today?
Gray Matters
An original production
BY JACQUES LAMARRE
No memory. No insurance. No opportunities. What's an actor to do?
After an emergency hospitalization, actress Sarah Gray finds herself with faulty memory, no insurance and no opportunities. Is it possible for an actor with an Etch-a-Sketch for a brain to get back to what matters?
Past Performances:
September 9-12, Hartford, CT
July 17, 18 19, 24, 28 & 31 in New York City
August 6 - 8 in Mystic CT
Chestina Vanessa Poulson
by MELANIE GREENHOUSE
May 7 - 9 & 14 - 16, 2010, August 13 - 15, 2010
Chestina Vanessa Poulson is the story of a post holocaust family re-settling in a remote corner of the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland. Told in the voice of CHESSIE, the black woman who comes to work for the Ehrenwald family, it is non-fiction,memoir of sorts. Opening in 1952, this is a portrayal of two cultures-how each experiences and transcends the isolation of race and ethnicity in a segregated environment.
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Spinning Into Butter
by REBECCA GILMAN
September 26-27 & October 1-4, 2009
Set on a small college campus in Vermont, “Spinning Into Butter” explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today. When one of the few African American students at liberal Belmont College begins receiving hate mail, the campus erupts, first with shock, then with mutual recrimination as faculty and students alike try to prove their own tolerance by condemning one another. At the center of this malestrom is Sarah Daniels, the dean of students. As the administration sponsors public “race forums” and the students start their activist groups, Sarah is forced to explore her own feelings of racism. Her self-examination leads to some surprising discoveries and painful insights, the consequences of which even she can't predict.
Picasso At The Lapin Agile
by STEVE MARTIN
"Picasso at the Lapin Agile" is comedian Steve Martin's eccentric comedy about the birth of the Twentieth Century and a meeting of the minds between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein. Both men are on the verge of artistic and scientific masterpieces when they find themselves at a bar in paris called the Lapin Agile. With some help from a "mysterious visitor" and the bar's regulars the two men explore genius and creation. It is a Comedy brimming with youth, truth and beauty—told in a way only Steve Martin could write.
Harriet2by EMMA PALZERE-RAE and LISA GIORDANO
Harriet2 is back by popular demand to delight audiences once again. The delightful stories of Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe are coming to Three Rivers Community College in February 2010. Come join the Three Rivers Community and explore the new Campus, while honoring Black History Month and Women's History Month.
Introducing Mr. Charles Dickens
by ALBERT CREMIN
The Emerson Theater Collaborative presents Albert Cremin's one-man show Introducing Mr. Charles Dickens, in which, he portrays as many as 35 characters, including the great writer himeself. Mr. Cremin has been performing the piece for twenty years. The show, which includes passages from Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, and The Old Curiosity Shop, had a successful run in NYC at The Lark Studio Theatre.
Mr. Cremin was honored by his Alma Mater when his performance was featured at Emerson College to celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Southwick Recital, a tradition celebrating the Art of Oral Interpretation.
Doubt, A Parable
by JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY
Set in the St. Nicholas Church School in The Bronx during the fall of 1964, Father Flynn asks the audience, "What do you do when you're not sure?" His colleague, Sister Aloysius, is an old-school nun who insists that her students not be coddled: "Every easy choice today will have its consequence tomorrow. "Flynn, following the Second Vatican Council's directive, believes the clergy should be more accessible to the parish and be thought of "as members of their family." These two schools of thought come head to head when Aloysius suspects Flynn of "interfering" with Donald Muller, the school's first black student. Sister James, an inexperienced but enthusiastic young nun who has been an indirect witness to the dealings between Flynn and Muller, and Donald's mother, Mrs. Muller, provide two more perspectives on the central conflict. Sides are chosen and wounds are inflicted, and somewhere amongst the mayhem is the truth.
