Hovey Players Presents
Summer Shorts
Festival of New Works by Local Authors
August 26-28 and September 2-4, 2004
“Summer Shorts is …the best damn theater company doing what they do best…”
– Larry Stark, Theater Mirror
Hot New Shorts In A Cool Location!!!
Hovey’s incredibly successful Summer Shorts festival of new works will be moving to a new home, just up Moody Street to Auburndale’s Turtle Lane Playhouse! “This co-production between Turtle Lane and Hovey has come at a terrific time,” says Jerry Bisantz, producer and founder of the seven year old Summer Shorts festival. John MacKenzie, former Hovey president, agrees. “Last year’s show was SO successful, with the addition of original music, mini-musicals and ten minute plays, that we literally had nowhere to put our audience and, unfortunately, many people had to be turned away. This won’t happen at the larger space.”
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by David Berry
G.R. Point is a war-drama set at a Graves Registration Point in Tay Loi, Vietnam, in 1969 where bodies of combat victims are brought for processing before being sent home. Through the experience of a young draftee and the situation he and others are thrust into, extraordinary relationships are formed that forever impact each of their lives. The play explores the insidious way in which human life is robbed of its dignity and dimension, and perhaps helps us to understand what led decent young men to commit acts which, in another place and time, would have filled them with remorse and horror.
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The Love of the Nightingale
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Luke Dennis
Produced by Michelle M. Aguillon
The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker is a contemporary reworking of the ancient Greek myth of Philomele, a vibrant, inquisitive Athenian princess whose questions are answered by silence and who is soon violently silenced herself, by her brother-in-law, the King of Thrace. Her chilling revenge, five years later during an evening of Dionysian revelry, is simply astonishing. A story of the power of words and the price of silence, The Love of the Nightingale is written in exultant modern prose that has the resonance of myth by a playwright who is as interesting and surprising as her name.
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Speed-the-Plow
A movie script with Depth? Passion? Serious Intent? …Not a chance. Charlie and Bobby are film execs who will do anything to get to the top. Their Hollywood is a Niagara of bad taste, backstabbing and predatory deal making. Charlie has a clichéd movie script and a big star who wants to play the lead. Perfect! The road to riches! But will the pretty temp Karen convince Bobby that he just might have a conscience? Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Mamet pulls the tinsel off the town in this dazzling dissection of the movie business.
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Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
Arcadia: Tom Stoppard’s brilliant play where science and romance; enlightenment and ignorance arc across the stage and two centuries of time as rich, unforgettable characters speak some of the most elegant dialogue written for modern theater.
This extraordinary and demanding play challenges the viewer to grasp dizzying concepts, both large and small, played out on a stage at once as vast as the universe and as small as a bowl of rice pudding.
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by David Berry
Hovey Players of Waltham presents G.R. Point by David Berry, a war-drama set at a Graves Registration Point in Tay Loi, Vietnam, in 1969 where bodies of combat victims are brought for processing before being sent home. Through the experience of a young draftee and the situation he and others are thrust into, extraordinary relationships are formed that forever impact each of their lives. The play explores the insidious way in which human life is robbed of its dignity and dimension, and perhaps helps us to understand what led decent young men to commit acts which, in another place and time, would have filled them with remorse and horror.
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Habeas Corpus
by Alan Bennett
Directed by John MacKenzie
14 September – 4 October
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