The Mad River Valley's Community Theater
Waitsfield, Vermont
The Mad River
Valley's Community Theater
Waitsfield,
Vermont
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Valley Players Playwrights Festival" Staged Readings of 3 Vermont Playwrights Award Plays over 3 weekends: Sept. 21 - Oct. 7 The Schedule About the Festival Tickets, Curtain The Production Team The Cast The Plays |
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Festival Schedule
“Loving Lives” by Alan Haehnel Showing: Fri. Sept. 21*, Sun. Sept. 30 & Sat. Oct. 6
Showing: Sun. Sept. 23, Sat. Sept. 29* & Fri. Oct. 5
Showing: Sat. Sept. 22*, Fri. Sept. 28 & Sun. Oct. 7 *Meet the Author Evening |
The Valley Players annually holds The Vermont Playwrights Award for playwrights from Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. Since 1983, we have given 23 awards and produced 15 as a full production or staged reading. This year, three directors expressed interest in doing staged readings of three unproduced awarded plays during the fall show time. We decided to do each play each weekend scheduling it so that each play would be on a different night with a matinee on Sundays Author's Evening Join us for conversation with the authors! All three playwrights are coming! Each playwright will be at one of their readings to talk about their play, answer questions and generally discuss playwriting and other topics that come up. The schedule is to the left, noted by an asterisk. Volunteers The show's producers: Jennifer Howard (496-3751) and Susan Bauchner (793-0194) are looking for volunteers. Please contact either one of them by phone or by email. |
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Tickets $10 for one play Series Ticket: $25 for the 3 plays For a series ticket, you can also email us and we will contact you for your information. The series ticket does NOT guarantee you a seat. You must make a reservation to do that. You can make your reservation at the time you purchase the series or call the reservation line. Please bring your series ticket to the box office when you want to see a show. |
Advance Sales 583-1674: Credit Cards OR Mad River Valley Chamber, Rte 100 Waitsfield: Cash or Check only |
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From left to right: Standing: Jennifer Howard, Producer; Teresa Langston, Director of "Crosswords" and Susan Bauchner, Producer
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Some actors will be in more than one play. Have someone you really want to see on stage? Actors (and their character) are listed below by play! Here are a couple of photos...more to come....
ABOVE...From left to right... (Photo by Pam Lerner) BELOW....Martin Pincus & Jennifer Howard (Photo by Kitty Werner)
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"Loving Lives" Tom Badowski
(Jack Hopper) |
"Box Set" Doug Bergstein (Jeff
Hunter) |
"Crosswords" Carly Boyle
(James Johnson) |
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1993
VT Playwrights Award Winner Director: Doug Bergstein It's
1948, it's the dead of winter, and it's time for "Loving Lives,"
a radio soap opera on its last legs. A pompous romantic lead, an
incapacitated announcer, an obnoxious kazoo-tooting child star, and
multiple off-the-air seductions all contribute to the hilarious demise of
the radio show. Mr. Haehnel will be at the show on Opening Night, September 21 for conversation and questions following the performance.
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1995
VT Playwrights Award Winner Director: Henry Erickson In this suspenseful serio-comic play, which takes place in an academic setting, Associate Professor of Theater Jeff Hunter is up to his ears in his ongoing feud with Dicky and Hooter, two older colleagues who have spent their academic careers trying to keep Jeff and his friend Hartley in their place. Jeff's got an idea how he can finally turn the tables on his nemeses and gain the upper hand. But before he can really begin, he gets a visit from Allison, an attractive, part-time acting studen, who says she doesn't mind if he looks at her legs in class and the next thing you know there's a formal complaint filed. This play takes a less than reverent look at one of the hottest workplace issues. William Steele is a professor of theater at the University of Southern Maine. Mr. Steele will be at the show on September 29 for conversation and questions following the performance. |
2004
Director: Teresa Langston “Crosswords”
is the humorous story of Lester and Marie, a lonely retired couple,
stagnating from boredom. Their adult son and daughter decide not to come
for Christmas. Crushed and disgruntled by their children’s disinterest
in them, the couple decides things need to change. With the aid of
National Geographic and props they take exotic, unaffordable trips and
adventures in their own living room.
As witness to the change this charade brings about in them and their
relationship with each other, the audience cheers them on. Things then
take a surprising turn when their children step in with a classic twist on
the story. When
Heidi Lebauer won the award, she was living on the central Ms Lebauer will be at the show on September 22 for conversation and questions following the performance. |
