Theatre

Creative Cast Helps Bring Shakespeare to the Masses

Aliyah Walker |

Shakespeare for the Masses is typically an off-season, indoor production. This summer, however, the troupe of intrepid actors and Shakespeare experts have taken their show outside and on the road.

In collaboration with the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, the show is performed at the Tisbury Amphitheatre on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. It also pops up at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Featherstone Center for the Arts and the Vineyard Drive-In.

But despite the venue shifts, the core message from 13 seasons remains the same: “Quick & Painless & Free!”

 

 

 

Play Date With IMP

A play date with the IMPers is on tap at the Base at Alex’s Place at the YMCA on Saturday, Nov. 9.
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History Via Vecchia Theatre

Students at the Tisbury School will study women in history through a theatre program led by Phyllis Vecchia. Eighth graders will reenact history with the women of the Salem witch trials and sixth graders will study Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Laura Jernegan and women of the whaling era. The program is offered through support from the town of Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard Center for the Visual Arts, Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank Charitable Fund and private donors.
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Bread and Puppet Celebrates 50 Years

When the Bread and Puppet Company comes to Chilmark next week there will be protests, absurdity, laughter — and there’s a good chance audience members will leave scratching their heads. If you leave with a new point of view, even better.
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Theatre of the Mind

The YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard will revive the original broadcast of Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds with its Theatre of the Mind event on Saturday, Oct. 26 beginning at 5 p.m.
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Yard Falls for the Arts

The Yard in Chilmark is having a full program for Fall for the Arts. On Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. YardWorks presents Scott Crawford’s reading of My Fathers House, a tale of a father and his two children overcoming their differences.
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Calling All IMPs

Improv (IMP) for Kids invites children in grades one to five to try out an afterschool class for free this October. Classes meet on Tuesdays for grades one to three and Wednesdays for grades three to five. All classes start at 3:30 p.m. and are held at the BASE at Alex’s Place at the YMCA.

The IMP philosophy is “no mistakes, only gifts.”

Call 508-939-0688 or visit imp4kids.com to find out more.

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