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The Lieutenant of Inishmore at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Nov 8-24, 2013

The Lieutenant of Inishmore at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Nov 8-24, 2013

by Martin McDonagh

Directed by Joshua McKerrow

Produced by Maureen Rogers

Laurel Mill Playhouse

Friday November 8, 2013 through Sunday November 24, 2013

An Irish terrorist of the early 90s returns home, hell-bent on finding the person who crushed the skull of his black tomcat and left him for dead on the side of the road. Human cadavers quickly accumulate in Martin McDonagh’s pitch-black comedy.

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. Performances run weekends from Friday November 8, 2013 through Sunday November 24, 2013 with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 for general admission. Admission for students (18 and under), active duty military and seniors (65 and over) is $12. For reservations, please call 301-617-9906 and press 2. For further information visit the web site at http://www.laurelmillplayhouse.org or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister at the Venus Theatre Play Shack, Nov 7-Dec 1

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister at the Venus Theatre Play Shack, Nov 7-Dec 1

by Claudia Barnett

November 7 to December 1

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

Thursday, November 7 at 8:00pm
Friday, November 8 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 9 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, November 10 at 3:00pm
Thursday, November 14 at 8:00pm
Friday, November 15 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 16 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, November 17 at 3:00pm
Thursday, November 21 at 8:00pm
Friday, November 22 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 23 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, November 24 at 3:00pm
Saturday, November 30 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, December 1 at 3:00pm

Description: Kate Stoddard murdered Charles Goodrich in 1873–after he told her they weren’t really married and had her evicted from his Brooklyn brownstone in a blizzard. Kate’s struggles to maintain her sanity and her identity, both before and after she shot her one true love three times in the head, are the subject of this play, which moves backwards and forwards through time and invokes a poetry of madness.

A note on the title: Virginia Woolf imagined a sister for Shakespeare, an artist chastened for her gender and derided for her vision. Unable to act or write, she “killed herself one winter’s night and lies buried at some cross-roads.” Claudia Barnett imagines a similarly metaphorical sister for Emily Dickinson. Kate Stoddard was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1847, about a hundred miles from the reclusive Amherst poet. Inspired by Woolf’s musings, Dickinson’s poetry, and Stoddard’s tragic life, No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister asks: How might the same impulse lead one woman to poetry and another to murder?

Claudia Barnett teaches playwriting at Middle Tennessee State University. She has developed two previous scripts, Feather and Another Manhattan, with Venus Theatre. She wrote No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister as playwright-in-residence at Tennessee Repertory Theatre, and she wrote Witches Vanish as resident playwright at Stage Left Theatre. Her book I Love You Terribly: Six Plays is published by Carnegie Mellon (2012).

“When … one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs … I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Brontë who dashed her brains out on the moor …”

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“She had cultivated a romantic disposition by a liberal perusal of story papers and novels, and it is more than likely that cheap literature is the prime cause of all her woes and misfortunes.”

The Goodrich Horror:
Being the full confession of Kate Stoddart, or Lizzie King
Thanks for letting the girl talk.

PARENTAL ADVISORY: Ages 16+ – 731 covers rich literary territory with an amazing physical element that has a kind of violence always brewing just under the surface.

Tickets: General Admission $20. Purchase tickets on-line.

Suggested meal before the show: Fajita, or anything that sizzles on a hot pan.
Tampico Tex-Mex Restaurant
42 Washington Blvd
Laurel, MD 20707
301.490.5300

Auditions for It’s a Wonderful Life – The Radio Play at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Oct 20 & 22

Auditions for It’s a Wonderful Life – The Radio Play at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Oct 20 & 22

Auditions for It’s a Wonderful Life – The Radio Play will be held on:

October 20, 2013 at 6:00 PM
October 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Director Michael Hartsfield will be casting:

15 men, 15 women, 5 boys and 5 girls. There will be cold readings from the script. Bring conflicts, head shots and resume. No appointment necessary.

Instructions and roles to be cast at: http://www.laurelmillplayhouse.org/auditions.php.

Bell, Book and Candle at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Oct 11-27

Bell, Book and Candle at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Oct 11-27

Bell, Book and Candle
by John van Druten
Directed by Larry Simmons
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Friday October 11, 2013 through Sunday October 27, 2013

Performances run weekends from Friday October 11, 2013 through Sunday October 27, 2013 with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m, and Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $15 for general admission. Admission for students (18 and under), active duty military and seniors (65 and over) is $12. For reservations, please call 301-617-9906 and press 2. For further information visit the web site at http://www.laurelmillplayhouse.org or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

Special Salute’s Dinner Menu before show on Fridays and Saturdays or after show on Sundays, $25.00 including tax & tip.
Dinner reservations must be made through Maureen Rogers at 301-452-2557.

Description: Gillian Holroyd is one of the few modern people who can actually cast spells and perform feats of supernaturalism. She casts a spell over an unattached publisher, Shepherd Henderson, partly to keep him away from a rival and partly because she is attracted to him. He falls head over heels in love with her at once and wants to marry her. But witches, unfortunately, cannot fall in love, and this minute imperfection leads into a number of difficulties.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French.

One-Act Play Festival at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Sept 6-22

One-Act Play Festival at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Sept 6-22

Friday September 6, 2013 through Sunday September 22, 2013
Laurel Mill Playhouse 2013 One Act Festival

Produced by Maureen Rogers

Laurel Mill Playhouse 2013 One-Act Festival will include a variety of plays, with different shown on each weekend.

Performances run weekends from Friday September 6, 2013 through Sunday September 22, 2013 with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 for general admission. For reservations, please call 301-617-9906 and press 2. For further information visit the web site at http://www.laurelmillplayhouse.org or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.