Maine
Essex Theatre Company Presents John Cariani’s Almost, Maine –
Essex Theatre Firm in Essex, New York, will discover this in John Cariani’s romantic comedy, Virtually, Maine, in a pay-what-you-can preview on Friday, July 8 at 7 pm, after which July 9, 15, and 16 at 7 pm and July 10 and 17 at 5 pm on the historic Masonic Lodge, positioned at 2756 Essex Street in Essex.
The creator factors out, “Virtually, Maine takes place over a interval of about ten minutes. Every scene begins at round 8:50 pm and ends a bit after 9 pm on a Friday night time in the midst of winter. The plot of every scene in Virtually, Maine consists of some type of ‘magical second’. These magical moments are all taking place at precisely the identical time – at 9 pm. The northern lights and the magical moments give rise to 1 one other.”
The moments are enhanced by Julian Fleisher’s interstitial music supplied via Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Actors Gina Lindsey, Da’Ron Allen, Lee Ann Thomas, Andrew Murphy, and Maria Murphy deliver twenty characters to life on this shocking, metaphorical piece, designed/directed by Kathy Poppino, with technical help from Vicky Sloan, Butch Wardell, Jeremy Clifford and different help from Peggy Harris and Mike George.
As The New York Occasions says, “ALMOST, MAINE is a collection of 9 amiably absurdist vignettes about love, with a contact of good-natured magic realism… witty, romantic, unsentimental. A fantastically structured play, with nifty shock endings (most however not all of them joyful).”
All tickets are $12 aside from the July 8 preview, which is pay-what-you-can.
For extra data and to order tickets, please go to: www.essextheatre.org.
Virtually, Maine is made potential, partly, by the Essex County Arts Council’s Cultural Help Program (CAP) Grant supplied by Essex County, NY, and by grants from the Adirondack Basis, and the Stay Energetic Basis and is carried out with permission from Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
The Essex Theatre Firm, a long-time grantee of ECAC, was fashioned in 1993 to serve the neighborhood of Essex and the encircling cities through the use of native expertise to behave, direct, work behind the scenes, write, and sing in theatrical and musical productions in the summertime months and sometimes year-round. Up to now, they’ve produced a complete of 76 reveals – 28 musicals and 48 performs.
—Kathryn Poppino and Susan Hughes
Picture at prime: Essex Theatre Firm web site photograph.