Vermont Theatre Festival
Incorporated 1979




Unadilla Theatre



2009



Season










Unadilla Musical Revue




Music from the most famous Broadway musicals ever. Performed in concert by some of our Unadilla Greats. Steve Falbel, Meredith Grubb, Charlie Cerutti and many others accompanied on the piano by Alison Cerutti.









Rose

Martin Sherman




Rose is a surviver. Her remarkable life began in a tiny Russian village, took her to Warsaw's ghettos and a ship called The Exodus, and finally to the boardwalks of Atlantic City and the salsa-flavoured nights of Miami Beach. Olympia Dukakis played the role of Rose at the Royal National Theatre in London in 1999 and the play was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2000. ...

This play will be followed THE SAME EVENING by









Seven Jewish Children: a play for Gaza




Caryl Churchill

Churchill is one of our most illustrious contemporary playwrights. Her dismay at the invasion of Gaza prompted her to write this play in which she asks how a modern western state, and one especially whose citizens and their forebears have suffered unspeakable barbarity, could perpetrate such horrors as occured in January of 2009.
This show is about 20 minutes long.











L'Hotel du Libre-Echange
(A Little Hotel on the Side)



Georges Feydeau


Georges Feydeau (1862-1921), was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest of farce writers. Reaching the heights of farcical lunacy, his plays nevertheless contain touches of barbed social comment and allowed him to mention subjects which would have provoked outrage in the hands of more serious dramatists. If you enjoyed Faulty Towers and Monty Python, you will love this play. It is, of course, performed in English.
















The Fever

Wallace Shawn

How do we Americans confront the internal chorus of conflicting voices: dreams of comfort, images of physical and economic violence, accusations of indifference, and cold-blooded arguments in favor of oppression. The central question: what, if anything, is a morally consistent way to live in the world as it is? Mr. Shawn’s literary models are Kafka and Dostoyevsky. Actor Doug Lockwood has performed The Fever in many venues under the direction of Ken Rus Schmoll, this year's winner of an Obie award in New York City for the Telephone. Doug has just completed a run with Paula Plum in the Boston production of Much Ado About Nothing in the comic roles of Dogberry and the villian, Don John.













She Stoops to Conquer

Oliver Goldsmith


Wealthy countryman Mr Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy aristocrat, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet the complete opposite around lower-class females. On his first acquaintance with Kate, the latter realizes she will have to pretend to be common, to make marriage with the man possible. Thus Kate stoops to conquer, by posing as a barmaid, hoping to put Marlow at his ease so he will fall for her in the process.















Triptych

William Blachly

The author answers all the questions you have never thought to ask. What would you do if you suddenly found yourself without your accumulated possessions? How has the change from childhood to adulthood altered the way you react to trauma? Is someone (other than God) actually responsible for the meltdown of our economy? A lighthearted and frightening explanation of the modern American landscape.











The Gods of the Hills

A retelling of the history of Vermont before there was a Vermont by the commanding officer who captured Fort Ticonderoga from it's British garrison. Hogue has performed his reencarnation of Ethan Allen throughout the United States to rave reviews.

written and performed by Jim Hogue





Ticket Prices: Adults $20, Children 12 and under $10










Parents with small children are asked to use discretion before bringing them to adult plays. Please call the box office if you are in doubt. Babes-in-arms cannot be admitted.



Curtain Time 7:30

Reservations and Information: 802-456-8968 or at : unadilla@pshift.com









501 Blachly Road
Marshfield Vermont 05658






Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
June 26 27
28 Hotel (o) 29 30 Hotel
July
1 2 Hotel 3 Seven Jewish Children/Rose (o) 4 Seven Jewish Children/Rose
5 Hotel 6 7 Seven Jewish Children/Rose 8 Hotel 9 Seven Jewish Children/Rose 10 Seven Jewish Children/Rose 11 Hotel
12 Revue (o) 13 14 Hotel 15 Seven Jewish Children/Rose 16 Seven Jewish Children/Rose (c) 17 Hotel 18 Revue
19 Revue 20 21 Hotel 22 Revue 23 Hotel
 24 Fever (o) 25 Fever
26 Fever (c) 27 28 Hotel 29 Revue (c) 30 Hotel 31 Hotel
August
1 Tripych (o)
2 Hotel 3 4 Triptych 5 Triptych 6 Hotel (c) 7 Triptych 8 Triptych
9 10 11 Triptych 12 Stoops (o) 13 Stoops 14 Triptych (c) 15 Stoops
16 Stoops 17 18 Stoops 19 Stoops 20 Stoops (c) 21 Gods (o) 22 Gods (c)

Directions From Montpelier: take Rt 2 East to East Montpelier, then Rt 14 North to North Montpelier. One mile North of North Montpelier turn right on Max L. Gray Road and follow it for

5 miles to the theatre.

From St Johnsbury: Go to Marshfield Villege on Rt 2 West. In Marshfield Village turn right on Creamery St (sign East Calais) Go up hill bearing left onto the Calais Road. At third 4 corners turn right on East Hill Road. Follow to Blachly Road and the theatre.