| Local Play Readings Focus on Marriage |
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On October 15, Stage Force’s play reading series tackles The Retreat from Moscow, William Nicholson's moving and honest look at a marriage when it is hit by an emotional hurricane. Generic Theater will give a reading of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams at Player’s Ring on October 24. (Continued below)
In Retreat from Moscow schoolteacher Edward and devout Catholic Alice have been together for 33 years, but when boredom sets in and
The Retreat from Moscow features Alexandra Borrie, Joel Colodner, and CJ Lewis. It will be read at 7:30 pm at The Music Hall Loft,
The Play Reading Series is sponsored by Jumpin' Jays Fish Cafe, with support from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. All Play Reading performances start at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Tickets for the series are $12 and go on sale through The Music Hall box office on Feb 6. They can be purchased in advance at
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On October 24 at 7:30 at the Player's Ring, Generic Theater will give a reading of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams first popular success and launched a brill1ant career. Almost sixty years after its premiere in
Set in the 1930s it is the story of Amanda Wingfield. Abandoned by her husband she comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life when she was pursued by ‘gentleman callers’. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother’s suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura’s romantic illusions are crushed. The reading will feature: Helen Brock, Alan Huisman, Brett Reis, Molly Sullivan and Eric St. Cyr.
CALENDAR LISTING FOR STAGE FORCE
The Retreat from,
The Stage Force series will continue on November 12 with Jeffrey Hatcher's Murderers, concluding on December 16 and 17 with The Ragpicker's Dream, part of The Music Hall's Vintage Christmas.