Sister Week
Feb. 25 - Mar. 13, 2005
Professional Equity Theatre Presentation
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The Centenary Stage Company will celebrate Women’s History Month this year with the World Premiere of the new play by award-winning playwright, Heather McCutchen, Sister Week, which will open Feb 25 and run through Mar. 13 at the Centenary Theatre in Hackettstown.
Against the better judgement
of Sister Kitty (left - Mary Ethel Schmidt) and Housekeeper Mary
Martha (right- Betty Hudson) Sally (Carolyn Popp) retrieves her
husband's old football trophy from the overflowing attic in the
Centenary Stage Company World Premiere of "Sister Week"
by Heather McCutchen - a Southern comedy about sisters, sons and
...oh yes,... A ghost! |
With distinctive Southern humour and poetic vision, McCutchen has created a play about sisters, about the power of family, about the life that we dream of and its often abrupt collision with reality. In Sister Week, sister Sally keeps a lifetime of memories stored over her head in her bulging attic, behind a door that she seldom opens. When her only son, Jay Jay prepares to head off to art school, Sally prepares to enter an entirely new phase of her life, but it will not be without the help of her breezy and ebullient sisters, who swoop in on Sally from all points to help her, literally and figuratively, clean her attic. When they finally open the door to the attic, much more than paraphernalia will come tumbling out.
The Director
Sister Week will be directed by Margo Whitcomb, who served as the Associate Artistic Director of American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco for many years prior to her move to the east coast. Whitcomb, who is known for her work with the development of new plays, also directed the 2004 CSC premiere of “The Misadventures of Patty…” by Allison Moore.
The Cast
The Sister Week cast will include Carolyn Popp as Sally, Betty Hudson as Mary Martha, Maria Brodeur as May, Becky Engborg as June, Mary Ethel Schmidt as Kitty, and Jack Moran as Jay Jay.
| "Over
the last 11 years, Centenary Stage Company's Women's Playwrights Series
at Centenary College in Hackettstown has sponsored the world premiere
of six new plays. The latest, Heather McCutcheon's Sister Week,
is another reason to celebrate Centenary's dedication to developing
new works. …a good play, perhaps even a great one! Betty Hudson, a Broadway veteran, is terrific as Mary Martha. Director Margo Whitcomb has her cast firing on all cylinders." William Westhoven Daily Record |
| "The
pleasure of the evening lies in the characters’ interactions,
and to say more would only serve to diminish the pleasure of discovering
them in the theatre... In 2003, Heather McCutchen developed Sister Week during Centenary’s Women Playwrights workshop. In its current full Centenary production, Sister Week delivers solid proof of the program’s considerable value." New Jersey By Bob Rendell Full Review |
The Playwright: Heather McCutchen
Named
one the “most exciting new playwrights” by the Dallas Morning
News, Heather McCutchen an internationally produced playwright who is
also the recipient of the coveted Kennedy Center's Fund for New American
Plays Fellowship Grant for her play A Walk on Lake Erie. She
has been a playwright-in-residence at New York's HOME for Contemporary
Theatre and Art, where A Walk on Lake Erie premiered, and has
been a member of New Dramatists in New York City for over 10 years.
McCutchen’s play, Alabama Rain, an allegorical comedy in the Southern Gothic style, is published by Dramatic Publishing . Several of her plays have been performed from New York to London and Australia. McCutchen is also the author of popular books for young readers, including Lightland, a fantasy set in Iowa which has now been published in nine different languages (www.lightlandfans.com), and the recently completed Lightland and the Room of Dreams, published by Scholastic Publishing.
Performances
Sister Week will be performed Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 2:30 PM and Thursdays at 7:30 PM, with two Wednesday matinees on Mar.2 at 2:30 p.m. and Mar. 9 at 11 a.m. (student matinee).
| Feb. - Mar. 2005 - Sister Week | ||||||
| Wed. Stu. 11am |
Wed. Mat. 2:30pm |
Thurs. Eve. 7:30pm |
Fri. Mat. 2:30pm |
Fri. Eve. 8pm |
Sat. Eve. 8pm |
Sun. Mat. 2:30pm |
| 25 | 25 | 26 | 27 "First Sundays" |
|||
| x | 2 | 3 Family Night |
x | 4 | 5 | 6 Audio Described |
| 9 | x | 10 Family Night |
x | 11 | 12 | 13 |
Individual
Tickets
Tickets for “Sister Week” range in price from $12.50 for children under 12 to $20 for general admission on Saturday evenings. Thursday evenings are “Family Night” at CSC with two-for-one “rush” tickets available at the door only. Tickets for all matinee performances are $15.
How to Purchase Tickets
Individual Tickets (and Subscription Purchases, when available) can be purchased
through our Secure
Online Ordering System or by calling the Centenary Stage Company Box office
at 908-979-0900. Tickets are also available at Greene's Beans Coffee Shop on
High Street in Hackettstown.
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| Annual programming at the Centenary Performing Arts Guild are made possible in part through the generous support of the The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour (Penn PAT) , Heath Village, Coldwell Banker and Arts Guild Members and Sponsors. |
The Women Playwrights Series will reconvene in April once again, bringing three new plays in workshop presentations to the CSC audiences. For three Wednesday evenings, April 13, April 20 and April 27, audiences will be invited to experience the talents of three exciting new women authors from around the country, and to play their own part in the development of new work through lively discussions with the playwright and cast following each presentation.
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