Hovey Players Presents the 9th Annual
July 15, 16, 22 and 23, 2005
“Summer Shorts is …the best damn theater company doing what they do best…”
– Larry Stark, Theater Mirror
Join us for our annual summer festival, this year featuring original one-act plays, short films, and paintings by Seana Antaya.
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adapted by Jack Neary
Directed by John MacKenzie
The Following is from the author’s web page
“This adaptation of the classic Poe short story takes the challenging, haunting, somewhat oblique tale and casts it in the guise of a fast-moving 1930’s detective thriller, all the while maintaining Poe’s basic story of familial treachery and madness. The play opens with a young man being interrogated by a tough Boston police detective. The young man has been discovered cowering at the scene of a horrible fire which has destroyed the Usher mansion, leaving two unidentifiably charred bodies in its wake. As the plot unravels, we discover how this young man was involved in the collapse of the Usher estate, and we learn the family’s horrible secret. The scene shifts back and forth from the police interrogation room to the Usher mansion as the young man recalls and relives the chilling events of the past two weeks.”
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By Alan Ball
Directed by Gordon Ellis
It’s just basic human nature to be a real degenerate every now and then. And you ought to be able to do it without the whole world looking down its nose at you…
It is through this somewhat twisted prism that we join playwright Alan Ball, Academy Award winning writer of American Beauty and creator of the HBO series Six Feet Under, as he examines the role and nature of today’s modern woman. Working from traditional stereotypes, Ball attempts to tear down our preconceived notions of what makes a “lady” by slowly chipping away at these timeworn images in a steamrolling comedy that is at times both shockingly raw and deeply moving.
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by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by Lissi Engvall
In the last decade of the 20th century, a beautiful young woman wearing 19th century clothing is found floating on an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic. When rescued, she utters only one word, “Titanic.”
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