Town Players Present "Readings at the Lichtenstein".

 

"Stepping on my Head in Dr. Scholl's Sandals"
    Written and directed by local playwright, Karel Fisher
      Aug. 18th, 2011
      Third Thursday 5:30pm and 7:00pm (free community event)
      at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts

"Stepping on My Head in Dr. Scholl's Sandals" is a one-act comedy that explores the irony of a cautious, overly protective mother bringing about a situation which causes her five-year old daughter much discomfort and confusion. Mother and adult daughter humorously rehash the incident during a visit.
 

 

Selected plays from the collection of "All in the Timing"
    by David Ives
      directed by Connie Bullard
      Sept. 18th, 2011
      Sun. matinee 2:00pm ( suggested donation $5)
      at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts

"All in the Timing" is a collection of one-act plays by the American playwright David Ives. The plays are almost all comedic, frequently employing word play.

 

 

"Riders to the Sea"
    by J. M. Synge
      directed by John Trainor
      Oct. 22nd, 2011
      Sat. 5:30pm and 7:00pm (suggested donation $5)
      at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts

"Riders to the Sea" is set in the Aran Islands, and like all of Synge's plays it is noted for capturing the poetic dialogue of rural Ireland. The very simple plot is based not on the traditional conflict of human wills but on the hopeless struggle of a people against the impersonal but relentless cruelty of the sea.
 

 

84 Charing Cross Road
    by Helene Hanff
      directed by Melanie Rivers
      Nov. 13th, 2011
      Sun. matinee 2:00pm (suggested donation $5)
      at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts

"84 Charing Cross Road" is about the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, the chief buyer of Marks & Co. booksellers.
While Hanff is searching for obscure classics, she contacts the shop and it fell to Doel to fulfill her book requests. In time, a long-distance friendship evolves between Hanff and Doel as well as other staff members. Their letters included discussions about topics as diverse as the sermons of John Donne, how to make Yorkshire Pudding, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the coronation of Elizabeth II.
 

 

Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol
    by Tom Mula
      directed by Kevin Wixsom
      Dec. 4th, 2011
      Sun. matinee 2:00pm (suggested donation $5)
      at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts

Marley was dead, to begin with.
With those words, Charles Dickens began his Christmas Carol. Chicago playwright and actor Tom Mula tells us what really happened that fateful Christmas night. If you think you know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, well, you don't know the half of it. Did Marley get the raw end of the deal that allowed Scrooge to receive another chance without providing the same for Marley.
“Scrooge? I have to redeem old Scrooge? The one man I knew who was worse than I was? Impossible!, ” laments Marley as he tells the story his heroic behind-the-scenes efforts to save his old associate’s soul — and in the process, save his own.
 

 

"Smudge"
    by Rachel Axler
      directed by Michael Murphy
      Jan. 22nd, 2012 (suggested donation $5)
      at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts

Smudge is a dark comedy about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake, as a hopeful young couple gives birth to a smudge.. It is written by two-time Emmy Award winner Rachel Axler.

The production will be directed by Michael P. Murphy and cast member are Denise Roller, Dana Grieb, Ryan Cavenaugh and Matthew Barbas. .


 

 

Love Letters
    by A. R. Gurney
      directed by John Trainor
      Feb. 11th, 2012
      Sat. evening 7:30pm (suggested donation $5)
      at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts

The play centers on just two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, they sit side by side at tables and read the notes, letters and cards - in which over nearly 50 years, they discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats - that have passed between them throughout their separated lives.