ENTERTAINMENT Bread and Puppet Show
Transition Town Manchester is delighted to sponsor Bread and Puppet on Saturday, September 12 at 2 p.m. at Long Trail School, Dorset, Vermont, in one of their rare southern Vermont performances. Their pageants have a broad theme-oriented appeal to audiences, young and old, addressing social, political and environmental issues. Bread and Puppet Theater is one of the oldest nonprofit, self-supporting theatrical companies in the U.S. The theater has been enacting its radical utopian vision in cardboard and cloth for over forty years don’t miss this wonderful experience. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Tickets are on sale at Live Green and New Morning Health Food Store for $8; at the door, $10. There is no charge for children under five. _______________________________________________
Film & Discussion at Mark Skinner Library
See and discuss “the stunningly powerful” (Paul Clinton, CNN) film “House of Sand and Fog” based on the page-turner National Book Award Finalist by Andre Dubus III at the Mark Skinner Library on Wednesday, September 16 at 7 p.m. Academy Award-winners Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly deliver spectacular performances as two strangers whose conflicting pursuits of the American Dream lead to a fight for their hopes at any cost. What begins as a struggle over a rundown bungalow spirals into a clash that propels everyone involved toward a shocking resolution. “House of Sand and Fog” is a film that elicits strong reaction and Professor Emeritus Harvey Flaxman will skillfully lead a discussion following the showing. Rated “R”. Running time: 126 minutes. Free and open to the public. Info: 802-362-2607. ________________________________________________
Auditions!
The Granville Players will be holding auditions for their fall production of D.D. Brooke’s stage adaption of “Rehearsal for Murder”, which starred Robert Preston and Lynne Redgrave. The play centers around Alex Dennison, a playwright whose fiancee, Monica Welles, is murdered following her opening night performance of Alex’s new play. The show opens a year later, as Alex has assembled everyone involved with the play to the same theater to read his new play, which is a device to catch Monica’s killer. According to director John Macri, there are roles for seven to nine men and 6 women between the ages of 18 and 80+. There is also plenty of need for backstage help as well, if you don’t want to be on stage. High school students are welcome. Auditions are scheduled for September 9 and 10 at 7 p.m., at theChamber of Commerce building on the corner of Church and Main Streets in Granville, New York. You do not need to attend both nights. Performances are scheduled for October 30 through November 1 at the high school, with performances on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. For further information, contact director John Macri at 518-6812089 or by e-mail at bigjohn6750@yahoo.com September 9, 2009
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