CP2 Series 2022/2023

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MINI FESTIVAL 1

OCTOBER 7 & 8, 2022
Fri 8pm & Sat 2pm
ADMISSIONS
By JOSHUA HARMON

Directed by CHRISTINE CRAWFIS

Sherri is head of admissions at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. She and her headmaster husband have succeeded in bringing it into the 21st century. When their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition and progressive values collide, with convulsive results.

Admissions is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. concordtheatricals.com

OCTOBER 8 & 9, 2022
Sat 8pm & Sun 2pm
THE NICETIES
By ELEANOR BURGESS

Directed by KIT COLBOURN

A black student visits her white professor during office hours to discuss her paper on the American Revolution. The polite review of her thesis explodes into a high stakes debate over race, history, power, and revolution.

The Niceties is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. concordtheatricals.com


MINI FESTIVAL 2

DECEMBER 2 & 3, 2022
Fri 8pm & Sat 2pm
GEORGE WASHINGTON’S TEETH
By MARK ST. GERMAIN

Directed by MICHAEL J. FROHNHOEFER

The women of the beleaguered New Bunion Historical Society must find creative ways to lure visitors to their sleepy New England town. When a set of George Washington’s dentures turns up in the hands of an unexpected rival, they brace themselves for all-out war.

George Washington’s Teeth is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.

 

DECEMBER 3 & 4, 2022
Sat 8pm & Sun 2pm
GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM
By MARTIN SHERMAN

Directed by ANDREW KARL

Beau has spent his life trying to blend into a world that told him to be invisible. Rufus lives his life openly and becomes fascinated with the much older Beau. Falling into a whirlwind affair, over a decade, they navigate a relationship neither expect, but on which both depend. This is a bittersweet, funny romance about being a gay man in the 21st century, and finding love along the way.

Gently Down The Stream is presented by arrangement Dramatists Play Service, Inc.


MINI FESTIVAL 3

MARCH 3 & 4, 2023
Fri 8pm & Sat 4pm
CONSTELLATIONS
By NICK PAYNE

Directed by CHRISTINE CRAWFIS

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. A story of love, honey, and a quantum multiverse. Moment by moment, can everything you’ve ever and never done exist in the same vortex of reality? Elegant and playful yet profoundly moving, “Constellations” blends the everyday and the ethereal, the actual and the imaginable, revealing that every outcome may only be the first link in a chain of cosmic consequences.

Constellations is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.


MARCH 4 & 5, 2023

Sat 8pm & Sun 2pm
ADA and the ENGINE
By LAUREN GUNDERSON

Directed by PARKER REED

As the British Industrial Revolution dawns, young Ada Byron Lovelace sees the boundless creative potential in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul mate Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. Ada envisions a whole new world where art and information converge. Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs in this poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age.

Ada and The Engine is presented by arrangement Dramatists Play Service, Inc.