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Upcoming
Shows
Planning
a season of shows will help potential actors and production
people time to prepare for auditions and plan their volunteer
activities with SVP. It also alerts our audience to the fantastic
theater they can experience here in Stoughton.
Reading
and recommending shows is the work of the Play Reading Team,
with final decision by the SVP Board of Directors. Many factors
go into selecting a show including: cast size, number of parts
for men and women, cost of production, audience and community
preferences.
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Play On Selected for Fall, 2008
The SVP Board approved the comedy Play On as
the production for next fall. The Play Reading Team headed
up by Jean Gohlke, has been hard at work reading, discussing
and prioritizing shows to recommend. According to a summary
from Samuel French Company, Play On is the hilarious
story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play
in spite of maddening interference from a haughty authoress
who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the
dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal,
and the final act is the actual performance in which anything
that can go wrong does. When the authoress decides to give
a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain
calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax to a thoroughly
hilarious romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of
laughter. The show will be directed by Fran Furillo, SVP member
and director of Love, Sex and the IRS in October, 2007
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March 2009
The
Stanway Case In this unique psychological thriller,
written by Sam Bobrick and to be staged in March 2009 by SVP,
two stories unfold simultaneously in the same space but in
different time frames. Maura and Scott, a couple, meet while
serving jury duty on a murder trial and get romantically involved
with each other. As their relationship develops, they discover
they adamantly disagree on what the verdict should be. They
also realize that each is not the person the other thought
they were. At the same time their story is being played out
to it's frightening climax, Jan and Tom, another couple who
have just met, weave through their unusual relationship that
strangely enough has ties to the same murder case. "A wonderfully
crafted story, the mind-bending plot keeps you on the edge
to its chilling denouement".
"Absorbing.
Keeps us on the edge to its chilling denouement.''-LA Weekly.
"Scintillating
and tantalizing. Drama and sensationalism at a surrealistic
level with a mind-bending plot.''-Tolucan Times
"Lively,
entertaining and intelligent. A delectable and delicious
play with some genuine surprising twists.''-NoHo L
"Wonderfully
crafted.... Delectable.''-Valley Star
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The Play Reading Team does not have time to rest as they are currently
preparing recommendations to recommend our show for fall, 2009 and
winter 2010. Members of the team are: Jean Gohlke, Tim Markle, Tracy
Markle, Brooke Hauser, Lynn VerHelst, Ed Smith, Ann Hill, Patrick
Fernan, Karen Griffin, Marjie Hansen, Chris Cook, and Sarah Listug.
Contact Jean if you are interested in helping on this team.
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