Shorts for the Summer
July 5, 2006
Actors Circle and NEPA Writers Collective are presenting 8 short plays from those submitted from the recent NEPA writer’s competition. They will be performed in the summer of 2006, throughout Lackawanna County: Dalton, Scranton, Jessup, Archbald, and Moosic. First performances will be at Nay Aug Park’s EVERHART Pavilion on Friday, July 14 at 7pm. Additional performances at Nay Aug Park will be held on Friday, July 28 at Nay Aug Park’s POOL Pavilion at 7pm.
Admission is free.
This project is supported by a Lackawanna County Arts and Cultural Grant, a program of the Lackawanna County Commissioners and the Lackawanna County Council on the Arts. More information on Shorts for the Summer:
My Hands by Arnine Weiss
Directed by Karen Gilat
My Hands is a dramatic monologue simultaneously spoken and signed. The piece invites the audience into the mind and heart of a professional interpreter through the hands and voice of two actresses.
Speaker: Karen Gilat
Signer: Arnine Weiss and company
Nixon’s Last 15 Minutes by Tom Flannery
Directed by Marilyn Rau
It is satire……..and rather funny
Jeff Ginsberg is Richard Nixon & Billy Joe Herbert is Henry Kissinger
Patient History by Patricia Rokos Hennefoth - Comedy
Directed by John Schugard
A girl with a rather unusual occupation goes to the doctor to have her injury treated.
Cast: Kimmie Wrazien & Joe Palumbo
Biography by Joe Cetta. The play is a drama.
Directed by Debby Panna
The play is set in the early 1990s. It takes place in Henry’s home located in Los Angeles, California. Bob has been interviewing Henry in his home for sometime with the intent of writing Henry’s biography. They are coming to the end of the interviews and Henry is having second thoughts about the book.
Cast: Henry Phillips - Star of stage and screens now in his 80s being played by Art Walsh.
Bob Haley - Writer in his 40s being played by Joe Palumbo.
If You Go into the Woods
Directed by Tony La Russo
A couple goes camping in the woods. the man has never been camping and is scared, the girl teases him about bears, and the result is a comedy.
Cast: Billy Joe Herbert & Molly Dooley
Room 401 by Angelina Glodzik
Directed by Angelina Glodzik
Two older women discuss the turns their lives have taken from a place they never thought they’d be.
Cast: Betsy Seaforth & Joan Johnson
Breaking Story
Directed by Katie Dooley
Cast: Linda C. Griffiths & Joe Palumbo
The Prayer Breakfast by Michael Ratchford
Directed by Art Walsh
Cast: Marilyn Rau, Suzanne Ford, Patricia Purcell
A Musical Whodunnit Under the Tent
July 2, 2006
One of the trademarks of Scranton Public Theatre has been their Mystery Plays. In the last 3 seasons audiences thrilled to the workings of Agatha Christie’s clever “Ten Little Indians” and “The Mousetrap”. This summer SPT will take that tradition a step further by staging a spoof of the genre, “Something’s Afoot”.
The Musical farce by David Vos and Robert Gerlach has been a favorite of regional and community theatres since its rather brief Broadway run in 1975. The Scranton production is under the direction of New York actress Maura Malloy. Malloy has assembled a talented cast of theatre veterans along with some refreshing new talent. some familiar faces in the cast are local favorites Agnes Cummings playing the role of the snoopy miss Tweed, Ted Anderson as the daffy Col. Gillweather, Warren Cox as rakish Dr. Grayburn, Paul WInarski as Clive the haughty Butler, and Eleanor Gwyn-Jones as Lettie, the saucy maid.
Musical Direction is by Linda Houck and set design by Michael Gallagher. The production will open at the Nay Aug Park Ampitheatre July 7th for a 3 weekend run. You wont want to miss this hilarious send up filled will murder, mystery, mirth and mayhem!
For more information of SPT and their upcoming events check out their website at http://www.scrantonpublictheatre.com/
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