Willsboro Drama Club is Proud to Present
An Evening of One Act Plays
The Actor’s Nightmare
by Christopher Durang
Boy Meets Girl
by Wendy Wasserstein
The Sandbox
by Edward Albee
Willsboro Central School Auditorium
January 27, 2017 at 7:00 PM
January 28, 2017 at 7:00 PM
January 29, 2017 at 3:00 PM
$5.00 General Admission
Starring
Makayla Anson
Mallory Arnold
Regan Arnold
Aliceson Drollette
Jenna Ford
Dana Klein
Mat Longware
Mackenzie Martin
Adam Mero
Olivia Politi
Ellie Vanderhoof
Erinn Walker
Derrick A. Hopkins, Director
Annie-Laurie Lemieux, Assistant Director
Paul Mero, Sound
Makayla Anson, Stage Manager / Lights
The Actor’s Nightmare: Having casually wandered onstage, George is informed that one of the actors, Eddie, has been in an auto accident and he must replace him immediately. Apparently no one is sure of what play is being performed but George (costumed as Hamlet) seems to find himself in the middle of a scene from Private Lives, surrounded by such luminaries as Sarah Siddons, Dame Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. As he fumbles through one missed cue after another the other actors shift to Hamlet, then a play by Samuel Beckett, and then a climactic scene from what might well be A Man for All Seasons—by which time the disconcerted George has lost all sense of contact with his fellow performers. Yet, in the closing moments of the play, he rises to the occasion and finally says the right lines, whereupon make-believe suddenly gives way to reality as the executioner’s axe (meant for Sir Thomas Moore) instead sends poor George to oblivion—denying him a well-earned curtain call.
Boy Meets Girl: Boy Meets Girl brings together Dan and Molly, two successful, thirty-something New Yorkers afraid of making a commitment. With the help of their psychiatrists, they finally find the courage to tie the knot under the altar before Her Majesty, the Queen.
The Sandbox: A man in a spotlight, clad in swimming trunks, is doing his exercises silently. A couple appears to remark, dryly, “Well, here we are; this is the beach.” The woman orders a clarinetist out onto the stage and commands him to play. The couple exits, then returns carrying the woman’s eighty-six-year-old mother and dumps her in a sandbox. Grandma begins to weave her history between the cool, indifferent patter of the people and the equally cool, but somehow more sympathetic, sounds from the clarinet. As Grandma covers herself with sand, it begins to dawn that the mysterious, cryptic athlete is much more than local color, and his conversation with Grandma is, in fact, prelude to his purpose. He is “after all, the Angel of Death.”
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