Current Play

 

2008-2009 Season Auditions

Rutland Recreation Center (Dana) Room 32

East Center Street, Rutland, VT

Sept. 22 & 23 — 6:30 pm

Calling all interested actors




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Nor’Eastern Play Writing Contest & Showcase

Sponsored By Holiday Inn Rutland/Killington

 

Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre

Third Annual Nor’Eastern Play Writing Contest

This is the third year of world premiere staged One-Act Play performances to be presented at the beautiful Paramount Theatre in downtown Rutland, Vermont. The Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre in its exciting fourth season is again sponsoring the Nor’Eastern Play Writing Contest with showcase productions of the three winning scripts on May 15 and 16 at the Paramount Theatre’s Brick Box. This contest features the work of outstanding regional playwrights. Each script goes through a rigorous screening process of three readers. The scripts with the highest scores are submitted to the final reader who selects the three scripts to be showcased.

Entry information can be requested by writing to:

The Nor’Eastern Play Writing Contest

Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre

PO Box 580

Rutland, Vermont 05702

Or by emailing us at:

Actorsrepvt@aol.com

Enter our Third Annual One-Act Play Writing Contest. The three winners in 2009 will each receive a staged reading of the play, and two nights’ lodging to attend the staged reading of the plays.

 

 

GUIDELINES

1. The contest is open to playwrights of all ages and experience who are residents of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania.

2. Submissions must be original, unpublished one-act plays. Plays that have had staged readings may be submitted, plays that have received productions in Vermont are not eligible. Legal clearance of materials not in the public domain is the full responsibility of the playwright.

3. The authors will maintain all literary rights to their own material.

4. All submissions are judged blind. We require four cover pages: one with title, your name, address, e-mail & phone number; the other three with title only. On three scripts there should be no identifying information except the title.

5. If you would like your scripts returned, you must include an S.A.S.E. with submission. If no S.A.S.E. is included, your scripts will be recycled.

6. Plays must be typed/word-processed, numbered, & securely bound in an ably soft cover, in standard professional play format. Write to Samuel French Inc., 45 West 25th Street, New York, New York 10010-2751 for their format guidelines, or copy from www.vcu.edu/artweb/playwriting/format.html on the internet.

7. All submissions will be handled with care. However, Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre assumes no responsibility for lost or damaged scripts.

8. Submission fee: NONE.

9. Mail four copies of your script to: Nor’Eastern Play Writing Contest, Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre, PO Box 580, Rutland, Vermont 05702-0580

10. Deadline for submission: November 15, 2008, notification of winners will be February 16, 2009 and the staged readings will be in May 15 & 16, 2009.



Coming Plays

 

2008 - 2009 SEASON

Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre

OUR FOURTH YEAR PRESENTING THE MAGIC OF LIVE THEATRE

Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Paramount Theatre Box Office, or at the door.
For more information please contact:

 

Paramount Theatre Box Office 802 775-0903

ART

 

Post office box 580, Rutland, VT 05702. actorsrep@aol.com



A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Dec. 4 — 8 pm A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Dec. 5 — 8 pm A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Ticket Prices: $18.00 Adults - $10.00 Students

ART returns to the Paramount for a fourth year with its annual favorite, Peter Marsh’s original adaptation of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, Dec. 4 & 5 at 8 p.m. This is the timeless tale of Scrooge and his voyage into Christmas past, present, and future and is critically acclaimed because audiences love its blend of story-telling and traditional theatre. Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and other familiar characters come to life as ART creates the world of Dickens through acting, magic, music and dance. This year, Tom Smith, “Scrooge” for the past two seasons, directs and Martin Bones takes over the lead.



AN EVENING WITH TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

February 4 - 7 & Feb. 11 - 13: 8 p.m. (Matinees on Feb. 7 & 14: 2 p.m.)

AN EVENING WITH TENNESSEE WILLIAMS ( “Auto de Fe”, “Adam and Eve on a Ferry” and “This Property is Condemned”)

Feb. 4 - 7 and Feb. 11 - 13: 8 p.m. (Matinees on Feb. 7 & 14: 2 p.m.)

An Evening of Tennessee Williams, directed by Susan Baker, features three works by one of America’s premier playwrights, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 & 1955.

  • In Auto de fe an overbearing mother and her sickly grown son struggle with their relationship and try to understand the outside world.
  • In Adam and Eve on a Ferry Williams creates a comic portrait of D.H. Lawrence as an analyst for repressed women.
  • This Property is Condemned is a poignant one-act in which a 13 year old prostitute named Willie brazenly recounts her experiences to a neighborhood lad.

Ticket Price: $20.00 General Admission



ALMOST, MAINE

April 22 – 25 & April 29 - May 2: 8 p.m. (Matinees on April 25 & May : 2 p.m.

ALMOST, MAINE by John Cariani

Ticket Price: $20.00: General Admission

In the prologue to John Cariani’s new romantic comedy, Almost, Maine, directed by Peter Marsh, two bundled-up sweethearts healingly confess their feelings. These two are the only characters who recur in the show. The four- member cast, populates an entire town of people with distinct and various emotional states. Almost Maine is a crowd pleaser. Playwright John Cariani, from Presque Isle, Maine (pop. 9, 511) understands people and feelings in remote areas. He’s created a bevy of working-class people who occasionally finish the day by going to the “Moose Patty” and drinking the night away. In the cold, dark winter of rural America, people struggle to make and keep romantic connections through the course of eight different stories.