Community Theatre Festival

The Baldwin Burroughs Theatre, Spelman College
Fine Arts Building, 350 Spelman Lane
Atlanta, GA 30314

Adjudicators: Kay Armstrong (AACT), Keith Martin (Richmond Ballet), and
Amy Wratchford (American Shakespeare Center)
Presiders: Rick Kerby (Manatee Players Riverfront Theatre), Lyle Tate (Starkville Community Theatre)

Social Events
 

Wednesday, March 2nd              7:00pm - 8:00pm           Welcome Party & Crew Break in Theatre Lobby
Thursday, March 3rd                   5:50pm - 7:00pm           Social Gathering  
Friday, March 4th                        7:50pm - 9:00pm           Social Gathering
Saturday, March 5th                   7:00pm – 8:00pm          Recognition Ceremony & Community Thtre Division Meeting

Performances
Wednesday, March 2nd

8:00pm - 9:15pm                       Driving Miss Daisy - Just Over the Rainbow Theatre, MS
Written by Alfred Uhry, directed by Tom Hardy
When Daisy Werthan demolishes another car, her son Boolie informs her that she will have to rely on the services of a chauffeur. Over his mother’s objections, Boolie hires Hoke, and over the next 25 years their relationship grows into friendship.

Thursday, March 3rd

11:30am – 12:45pm                   Laundry and Bourbon - Caroline Community Theatre, VA
Written by James McLure, directed by Bryan Hall
Setting: Roy and Elizabeth's home in Maynard, Texas, 1974. Three discontent housewives gossip about the many open secrets which are so much a part of small-town life.

12:45pm – 2:00pm                     The Harry & Sam Dialogues - Sumter Little Theatre, SC
Written by Karen Ellison, directed by Jean Dancy Jones
Harry and Sam are old friends who like to pass the time posing outlandish questions to one another.  The questions are off the wall and hilariously timed, but they slowly reveal the two men’s characters, and allow them to take stock of each other while avoiding mundane, but important, life matters.

7:00pm - 8:15pm                       HEROES - Springfield Community Theatre, VA
Written by Gerald Sibleyras, English Translation by Tom Stoppard, directed by Donald Neal Williams
Three French World War I Veterans reside in a soldiers’ retirement home in rural France.  They dislike the home, the nuns who control it, and other veteran inmates – so they plan their escape.  The only problems are where they will go, how they will get there, and who will be in charge of the operation?

                                 
8:15pm - 9:30pm                      Falling In Like - Haywood Arts Rep, NC
Written and Directed by Jerry Sipp
The star is out, the intern is in as understudy, then leading lady and in the meantime, there could be a romance, but sometimes the best you can hope for is to fall in like. An almost romantic comedy.

Friday, March 4th

10:00am – 11:15am             Sunday In The Park With George - Manatee Players, FL   
Written by James Lapine (book), Stephen Sondheim (music, lyrics), directed by Rick Kerby
One of the most acclaimed musicals of our time, this moving study of enigmatic painter George Seurat won a Pulitzer Prize for it's deeply insightful and highly personal examination of life through art and the artist.

11:15am – 12:30pm              The Passing of Pearl- Summit Players Theatre, WV
Written by Vain Colby, directed by Thomas Lester

Our show is a racially themed "dramedy" about an old black lady and her two white co-horts.  A spoiled daughter brings tension in this story about secrets, friendships, forgiveness and respect.  The message weaves a wonderful tale, using historical fiction to bring us to a nostalgic, yet uncomfortable, realization about our AMERICAN past.

5:20pm - 6:35pm                  Dead Man's Cell Phone - Cookeville PAC, TN
Written by Sarah Ruhl , directed by Chad McDonald
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. A dead man - with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a widely imaginative new comedy. A work about how we memorialize the dead and how that remembering changes us - it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

6:35pm - 7:50pm                   Honky Tonk Angels - Artists Collaborative Theatre, KY
Written by Ted Swindley, directed by Stephanie Richards
Honky Tonk Angels; a musical comedy and spirited story of three good old gals who are following their dreams to Nashville.  They meet on a bus, team up to form an act and belt out tunes like "Stand by Your Man," "Coal Miner's Daughter," "9 to 5" and "Harper Valley PTA.”

9:00pm - 10:15pm                  Dixie Swim Club - Starkville Community Theatre, MS
Written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, directed by Lyle Tate
Five college swim team friends meet each August at the same North Carolina beach cottage to share laughs, tears, and martinis as they help each other through the highs and lows of their lives.

10:15pm - 11:30pm                 Second Samuel - Wetumpka Depot Players, AL
Written by Pamela Parker, directed by Tom Salter
Written by Atlanta playwright Pamela Parker, Second Samuel is a comical and touching internationally produced play about life and friendships set in a small south Georgia town. The young and simple-minded B-Flat takes the audience on a tour of his world and introduces us to its characters who must deal with a shocking surprise that not one of them could imagine in their wildest dreams.

Saturday, March 5th

12:00pm – 1:15pm                Driving Miss Daisy - South City Theatre, AL
Written by Alfred Uhry, Directed by Clay Boyce
Having recently demolished another car a rich, crusty and sharp-tongued Southern widow of 72 is informed by her businessman son that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. In a series of absorbing, revealing scenes, spanning 25 years and filled with warm humor and glinting insights, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to and more dependent on each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple.

1:15pm - 2:30pm                  Early Frost - Colquitt County Arts Center, GA
Written by Douglass Parkhirst, directed by Connie Fritz
A tender yet gripping story of old maid two sisters who live in an old house with a long kept secret until an orphaned niece arrives to live with them. While playing in the attic the child is visited by a strange illusion, which could solve a fifty year old mystery.