Community Corner
Fridays @ 3: Bus Stop
Directed by Aidan O’Hara
Assistant Directed by Olivia Moriarty
Stage Managed by Maggie Ryan
Featuring the company of "Almost, Maine" in three different play readings. Come spend the afternoon with us and hear a play read aloud.
July 12, 19, 26 @ 3pmBlack Box Theatre- Regis College
No tickets needed. Donations are welcome. Please email wdwfridaysat3@gmail.com with your name, number of people, and the staged reading you will attend.
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Cast
ELMA DUCKWORTH, a waitress – Abi Kohn
GRACE HOYLAND, owner of the restaurant – Kat O’Connor
WILL MASTERS, a Sheriff – Ryan Feir
CHERIE, a chanteuse – Caroline Eldridge
DR. GERALD LYMAN, a former college professor – Max Alagna
CARL, a bus driver – Jake Venet
VIRGIL BLESSING, a ranch hand – Larson Miller
BO DECKER, a young ranch hand and cowboy – David Makransky
STAGE DIRECTIONS read by Allie Pineault
July 19 @ 3pm: CRIMES OF THE HEART by Beth Henley. The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.
Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. An astonishing first play, initially presented by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, then Off-Broadway, and then on Broadway, where it established the author as a major voice in our theatre. Warm-hearted, irreverent, zany and brilliantly imaginative, the play teems with humanity and humor as it examines the plight of three young Mississippi sisters betrayed by their passions.
Cast
LENNY MAGRATH, the older sister – Allie Pineault
CHICK BOYLE, the sisters’ first cousin – Alexandra Ebbs
DOC PORTER, Meg’s old boyfriend – Billy Veer
MEG MAGRATH, the middle sister – Crystal Evans
BABE BOTRELLE, the youngest sister –Katelyn Alcott
BARNETTE LLYOD, Babe’s sister – David Dines
STAGE DIRECTIONS read by Andrew Ramsey
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July 26 @ 3pm: THE FOREIGNER by Larry Shue The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So "Froggy," before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should—the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's pretty fiancée is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations made with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand a word being said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys," and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.
Winner of two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production. An inspired comic romp, equal in inventive hilarity to the author's classic comedy The Nerd, the present ay enjoyed a sold-out premiere in Milwaukee before moving on to a long run Off-Broadway. Based on what the NY Post describes as a "devilishly clever idea," the play demonstrates what can happen when a group of devious characters must deal with a stranger who (they think) knows no English.
Cast
S/Sgt. “FROGGY” LeSUEUR – Andrew Ramsey
CHARLIE BAKER – Peter Diamond
BETTY MEEKS – Caralyn Aufiero
REV. DAVID MARSHALL LEE – Conor Sweeney
CATHERINE SIMMS – Cailin McCormack
OWEN MUSSER – Max Alagna
ELLARD SIMMS – To be determind
Produced through special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.