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Theater at Monmouth - Three Days of Rain
Saturday, July 01, 2017
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Schedule
Saturday, July 1, 7:30 p.m. (Opening)
Saturday, July 8, 7:30 p.m. (Post-Show Discussion)
Saturday, July 29, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 3, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 5, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, August 8, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, August 15, 1:00 p.m.
Friday, August 18, 7:30 p.m.

This summer, Theater at Monmouth encourages you to “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none” (All’s Well That Ends Well). The plays of Season 48 explore the role of power, passion, and privilege in families, friendships, society, and politics. Through classic Shakespearean thrillers, contemporary romances, and fantastical flights of fantasy, the dynamics of gender, race, and society take center stage in 2017.

The Summer Repertory includes Shakespeare’s Macbeth directed by Dawn McAndrews and Othello directed by Catherine Weidner; Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain directed by Kate Bergstrom; Molière’s The Learned Ladies directed by Sally Wood; and Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet directed by Jennifer Nelson. Opening June 24, the Family Show is an adaptation of Ruth Stiles Gannet’s classic My Father’s Dragon directed by Adam Blais. The Fall Show, opening September 15 is Roger Rees and Alex Timbers’ adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearsons’s novel Peter and the Starcatcher directed by Bill Van Horn. Since its founding in 1970, TAM has produced more than one hundred of Shakespeare’s works and other classics both during the Summer Repertory Season and on tour throughout Maine.

"TAM mounts consistently excellent programming in a beautiful space. It's well worth the trip." – Allen Adams, The Maine Edge

“The Theater at Monmouth consistently presents the most loyal and inventive productions of Shakespeare in Maine.” – Bob Keyes, The Press Herald

Performances take place in Cumston Hall, a 250-seat Victorian opera house designed by Harry Cochrane. Since its founding TAM has rehearsed and performed in rotating repertory, inviting audiences to see the actors in different roles in different shows in one weekend.

Three Days of Rain | July 1 – August 18
by Richard Greenberg | directed by Kate Bergstrom
A famous architect has dies and leaves a mysterious will, prompting his children and their best friend to search for answers about their families’ history. Darkly funny, Greenberg’s play trips through time, playing children’s perceptions against their parent’s reality. The collision of past and present explores the complex search for the truth about our parents and ourselves.

“Greenberg’s play... explores how relationship patterns and personality imprints are echoed, sketching refracted mirror images of the three points of a triangle over two generations.” – David Rooney, Variety

Kate Bergstrom, Artistic Director of On The Verge Summer Repertory Company in Santa Barbara, California, has worked as director, devisor, producer, and educator in theatres and schools throughout the west coast including UCLA, UCLAlive!, REDCAT, Highways Performance Space, CalArts, La Mirada Center for the Performing Arts, On the Verge Summer Repertory Company, and more. She is currently working towards an MFA in Directing at Brown/Trinity Rep. Directing credits include The Children's Hour (Granoff Center for the Arts), The Taming of the Shrew (Brown/Trinity), Footprints at Laetoli & Caylee's First Big Show! (OTV 2015), These Walls (OTV 2016), Woyzeck (UCLA), and Wholed (REDCAT 2013).

Location Theater at Monmouth, 796 Main Street, Monmouth, ME 04259
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