NH Theatre Award Finalists for 2009
BRT is a finalist for 5 awards by the NH Theatre Awards for this production.
Best Sound Design - Gary GagnonBest Scenic Design - Lori Goldring
Best Actress Drama/Comedy - Wendy Almeida as Kate Mundy
Best Supporting Actor Drama/Comedy - Aaron Howland as Michael Evans
Best Supporting Actress Drama/Comedy - Mia Moravis as Christina Mundy
The Story
This is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large. The action of the play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him his mother and four maiden aunts. He is only seven in 1936, the year his elderly uncle, a priest, returns after serving for 25 years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony. The sisters acquire their first radio, whose music transforms them from correct Catholic women to shrieking, stomping banshees in their own kitchen, and he meets the father for the first time, a charming Welsh drifter who strolls up the lane and sweeps his mother away in an elegant dance across the fields. From this small events spring the cracks that destroy the foundation of the family forever. (Play description courtesy of Dramatists Play Service, Inc.)
The Cast
Michael Evans . . . . . . . . . . Aaron Howland
Christina Mundy . . . . . . . . . . Mia Moravis
Maggie Mundy . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Lynott
Agnes Mundy . . . . . . . . . . Mary Armstrong
Rose Mundy . . . . . . . . . . Heather Morrison
Kate Mundy . . . . . . . . . . Wendy Almeida
Gerry Evans . . . . . . . . . . Chris McCartie
Father Jack . . . . . . . . . . Peter Eisenstadter
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Performances are scheduled for
March 13, 14, 20 & 21, 2009
Doors Open at 7:30 p.m.
Curtain rises at 8 p.m.
$10 General Admission
$7 Seniors/Students
March 22, 2009
Doors Open at 1:30 p.m.
Curtain rises at 2 p.m.
Check it out! Special group pricing for 10 or more!
Group of 10 or more from local businesses $7 each!
Group of 10 or more Seniors $5 each!
All other tickets are ...
$10 General Admission
$7 Seniors/Students
All performances are
At the Community House of Marlborough
Rte. 101, Marlborough, NH
Show Rated PG-13
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Play produced by special arrangement with Dramatist Play Services, Inc.
