The Mad River
Valley's Community Theater Waitsfield,
Vermont
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May 1: Reading for Potential Directors August 7 - 10: Productions |
"Love ~ The Human Comedy" A 10 Minute Play Festival |
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Come Play with Us! Have you ever wanted to direct a play, but didn’t want to start with a full blown production? Now is your chance to try your hand with a brand new 10 minute play. The Valley Players is pleased to announce the production of “Love ~ The Human Comedy.” The show is a 10-minute play festival to be presented during the Festival of the Arts from Thursday, August 7 through Sunday, August 10. These are six brand new plays written by the same 6 Women@60 playwrights who wrote the plays at last year’s festival. Each play is a brief peek at a relationship that is mostly comic, sometimes poignant and often thoroughly recognizable. The VP has three veteran directors (Henry Erickson, Mitchell Kontoff and Teresa Langston) who are available to give advice and support to new directors. “The idea is to provide a fun opportunity for both director and actor, not to mention some laughs for the Festival of the Arts’ audiences and to increase the Valley Players’ pool of potential directors. All 6 plays will be presented each evening, therefore sets will be minimal. Unlike recent VP events, this is not a reading and actors will be learning lines. There will be more information about the auditions once the directors are selected, but right now, auditions are May 25 and 26 at 7 pm and rehearsals start after June 16. If you cannot make either audition date, email us and we may be able to find another time for you. There will be a set of the plays available for reading at the Waitsfield, Warren and Kellogg Libraries.
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The Plays and Playwrights "In
The Garden of Love" by Nancy Gall-Clayton Gall-Clayton, winner of the Streisand Festival of New Jewish Plays. "The
Joy of Sex" by Kitty Dubin Kitty Dubin - (Mimi and Me) is an award-winning playwright whose productions include Mirrors, The Last Resort, Change of Life, The Day We Met, and Dance Like No One's Watching. Her newest play, Coming of Age premieres in 2006 at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Kitty has been a semi-finalist twice as well as a winner in the Turnip Festival of Short Plays. She received a Jewish Woman in the Arts Award for lifetime achievement in the Detroit Metropolitan area and received two playwriting grants from the Michigan Council of Arts. She teaches playwriting at Oakland University and is a popular speaker at writers' conferences. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. "Recuerdo"
by Judith Estrine Judith Estrine of New York is the Executive Editor at the International Longevity-USA nonprofit research center, Estrine has won countless awards for her dramatic work. "First
Tier" by Linda Holland Rathkopf Linda Holland Rathkopf of New York is an artist/illustrator and cabaret singer as well as a highly respected playwright whose dramatic work is archived in the Louvre. "This
Seat Occupied" by Susan Shafer Susan Shafer of New York is a writer, editor and educational consultant.
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