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In This Issue
Oddly Enough
Watch This Space!
The Ideal Orator
Poets of the Lake
Chekhov Mini-Festival
Ancestral Voices
Half Life
Spring Break '08
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Here's what's on the itinerary...
Oddly Enough
Odd Man
April 4
@ Unison Arts Center

MMSC and Actors & Writers, together again for the first time.

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."  Rick, Casablanca

The beginning of a beautiful  collaboration and the premiere of a new issue of Vanguard Voices of the Hudson Valley, entitled Actors & Writers: Odd Shorts, featuring a collection of short plays highlighting the last fourteen years of the Actors & Writers Shorts Festival. An exciting evening. Be there.
Watch This Space
Question Marks
April 11 & 12
@ Unison Arts Center


We are waiting approval of  performance rights. So, post no bills, watch this space & stay tuned.
 
The Ideal Orator 1904
Lecturer
May 24
@ St. Andrew's Church


An evening of elocution,
recitations profound & comical, patriotic and historical.

Poets of the Lake
Poets of the Lake
June 7
@ St. Andrew's Church


English poets Coleridge, Southey and  Wordsworth lived in England's "Lake District" in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The best of the Poets of the Lake read by the best of MMSC readers.
 
Chekhov Mini-Festival
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June 20, 21, 27 & 28 
@ Unison Arts Center


A two week-end event celebrating the masterworks of Anton Chekhov including performances of A Reluctant Tragic Hero, On The Harmful Effects of Tobacco and Three Sisters.

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Winter Encores End
Fri. & Sat.
2/22 & 2/23

Greetings!

All Aboard For Buffalo!

This week-end we conclude our Winter '08 Encore Series with one of our very favorites, A.R. Gurney's hilarious tribute to his native Buffalo, Ancestral Voices, a family story.

ALSO -  Here's a sneek peek at MMSC's Spring Break '08. Steve Jordan fern
 
Encore 3
Ancestral Voices, a family story
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(2001 Season)
 
In most stories of dynastic disintegration,  the family starts to fray with the younger generation. Not so in A R Gurney's comedy, Ancestral Voices. It is  Grandma who upsets everything by running off with her husband's best friend. And that's just the first of several gentle little surprises.

"A beautiful chamber work. This lovely play is an elegy for Buffalo. The texture of life in Buffalo is heartbreakingly evoked in ways reminiscent of The Magnificent Ambersons.... This is a magical play, a nuanced reminiscence full of time and change and loss and suffering--as well as joy."
Donald Lyons, New York Post

Directed by Robert Miller
Featuring Don Wildy, Ruth Berg, Gerry Brooks, Christine Crawfis and Michael Frohnhoefer

Friday and Saturday, February 22 & 23 - 8 PM
Unison Arts
SAVE A SEAT!
And in March
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by John Mighton

Can the heart remember what the mind has forgotten?

The regional premiere of John Mighton's award-winning play Half Life. This insightful and moving meditation on identity, aging and the nature of memory has enthralled audiences and critics alike wherever it has played.

Clara and Patrick meet in a nursing home and begin to fall in love, thinking they are rekindling an old flame. Have they met before? As Clara and Patrick's middle-aged children watch their faltering parents, the older couple rediscovers beauty and love in the twilight of their lives.

John Mighton is not only renowned internationally as a playwright but he is also a leading scientist and mathematician. In Half Life he combines these seemingly opposing skills to explore the question of what shines through when memory fades away.

Poignant, masterfully understated and surprisingly funny, Half Life is a finely observed and heartfelt look at aging, love, memory and what makes us human.
 
"If you like theatre, don't miss it. And that goes double if you hate it, because Half Life is that all too infrequent play capable of winning new converts for the fragile art of live drama"
Montreal Gazette


Directed by
Christine Crawfis

Featuring William Connors, Ruth Berg, Barbara McMahon Scanlan, Elizabeth Barrows, Mary Beth Boylan, Douglas Woolley and Paul Coleman.

March 14, 15, 21 & 22
Unison Arts
SAVE A SEAT!
 
So, get out those calendars and pencil in those dates. Details will follow in the coming weeks.
 
 
Looking forward to seeing you this coming week-end at Ancestral Voices, a family story.
 
Sincerely,
 

Robert Miller, Producing Director
Mohonk Mountain Stage Company, Inc.
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