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Provincetown :: Friday, July 30th 2010
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The Curtain Never Closes
Plays at the Theater and the U.U. Meeting House
By Kahrin Deines
January 18th, 2009
The curtain never closes in Provincetown. It is, after all, the place where modern American theater was born, going back to the day when Eugene O’Neill’s plays were being performed here in a little shack at the end of a wharf.
| Readings of two of Eugene O’Neill’s earlier plays will also take place at the Provincetown Theater on January 20. |
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And it’s been thriving ever since, as it will over the next few weeks with a number of theater performances that are set to keep the drama high on the Provincetown must-see schedule.
At the U.U. Meeting House, theater buffs will want to catch at least one night of the “Universal Theatre Festival,” a three-day theater extravaganza starting January 23 that features 12 different plays.
The plays block a full-stage width, running from comedy to tragedy – and from the high wire of the circus to the even higher wire exploits of Amelia Earhart.
Courtesy of Counter Productions, there will also be a production of Brian Friel’s “Philadelphia, Here I Come!” at the Provincetown Theater running from January 23 through February 1. The play follows a young man’s preparations to move to America, juxtaposing the activities of both his private and public selves on the night before his departure.
Bringing theater in Provincetown back to its roots, readings of two of Eugene O’Neill’s earlier plays will also take place at the Provincetown Theater on January 20. “Shell-shock,” with a plot that hinges on the timely subject – despite its age – of post-traumatic stress disorder will be read by Brian Carlson, Tom Wolfson and Griff Griffeths. “The Sniper," a look at life under German attack and occupation, will also be read.
Both readings are part of the New Provincetown Players’ Winter Reading Series. The performances will be directed by Deborah Peabody, who resurrected the plays from a collection of lost O’Neill works, many of which have never before been performed.
To find out more about the “Universal Theater Festival,” visit www.universaltheatre.com. To find out more about events at the Provincetown Theater, visit www.provincetowntheater.org, or call 508.487.9793.
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