Pontine presents Mud Time Theater
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Pontine Theatre presents Vermont's Mud Time Theater in two original one-act plays, The Nine Questions and Mildred Taken Crazy. Both two-person plays are based on Vermont history. Performances are scheduled for Friday March 9 at 8pm, Saturday March 10 at 4pm and at 8pm, and Sunday 11 March at 2pm.

 

Tickets are $24 and may be purchased online at Pontine's Web site at www.pontine.org.  Tickets may also be purchased at the door (cash and checks only) based on availability. Pontine's West End Studio Theatre is located at 959 Islington Street, Portsmouth, NH.  For information contact Pontine at  603-436-6660.

Co-founders of Mud Time Theater, Steve Friedman and Denny Partridge, are veterans of the San Francisco Mime Troupe and NYC's Modern Times Theater. They have toured throughout the US, as well as in Europe, Asia, and Central America.  They have shared numerous professional honors, including two Fulbright Fellowships, an Audelco (Black Off-B'way) Award, an OBIE, and an NEA Playwriting Fellowship. Both are members of Actors Equity, and since 1970 have worked together on sixty shows.

The Nine Questions is based on a Vermont legend from before the Revolution: the wife of a settler disappears in the primeval wilderness and turns up six months later, naked and bewildered, and without her baby. The Nine Questions is about what happens between the lost wife and her farmer husband after she comes home.

Mildred Taken Crazy is about a Vermont crime of 1897:  the killing of one young lady by another over a man they were both engaged to.  The murder was a sensation throughout the eastern U.S. Such an act was unheard of at the time, especially committed by a woman — and in low-crime Vermont. Mildred Brewster was sent to the “asylum” in Waterbury and then disappeared from the historical record. The play's first performance was in Krakow, Poland at a storytelling festival in 2007. Since then Mildred has toured up and down the eastern US and throughout Vermont, to venues large and small.

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