Charter School Play
Next weekend, March 30 and 31, the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School will present its annual theater production. This year they take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play with essentially four plots in one: a royal wedding, prank-playing fairies, a love quadrangle and workmen trying to put on a play. Something for everyone indeed.
Little money, a backstage dressing room the size of an office desk — it’s all part of the charm of working in community theatre. But when the audiences, about half of whom you know personally, laugh or gasp or sit in mesmerized silence it’s all worth it.
Short Stuff Shakespeare, Big Fun
Cowardly braggarts, stuffy old men, soldiers in funny hats speaking nonsense, devious ingenues, elegant aristocrats, Marvin Gaye; just another night down at Cumberland Farms in Vineyard Haven you say?
Make that the Pit Stop, by way of William Shakespeare, that is.
ArtFarm Enterprises has teamed up with the West Tisbury School’s 4th grade class to create a unique adaptation of Aesop’s Fables. The performances take place tonight, Feb. 17, at 6:30 p.m. and tomorrow, Feb. 18, at 4 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center.
The performances are a mixture of live theatre, film, music, and dance. And it’s free.
The film portion was produced in partnership with the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival and the musical portion features songs composed
High School Play Airs Good Gossip
Each year the Martha’s Vineyard High School drama department creates an original play from scratch to be taken to the annual METG high school theatre competition. The play is created by the students, alumni and staff at the high school. This year the troupe is traveling with its largest ensemble to date, 32 students.
Love Letters on Stage
On Saturday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m. a production of A.R. Gurney’s play Love Letters will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Society located at 238 Main street in Vineyard Haven.
Love Letters was first performed in 1989 and has since been translated into more than 12 languages and presented all over the world.