UPCOMING SHOW 

THE NERD

a comedy by Larry Shue

Performances

July 22, 24 at 7:30pm and July 25 at 2pm

Tickets $15 for adults

$12 for seniors and students

CAST

Willum                      William Pazdziora                  

Rick                           Chris Mahn

Axel                            Derrick Holmes

Tansy                        Carolyn Dobmeier

Mr. Waldgrave         Jim Byrne

Celia Waldgrave     Susan Evers

Thor Waldgrave       Evan Buhler

THE REVIEWS: One of the funniest plays ever written, this extraordinarily inventive, side-splitting comedy was first presented by the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, then produced in Great Britain, then went on to Broadway. The action centers on the hilarious dilemma of a young architect who is visited by a man he's never met but who saved his life in Vietnam—the visitor turning out to be an incredibly inept, hopelessly stupid "nerd" who outstays his welcome with a vengeance. "Shue delivers a neatly crafted package that uses some classic comic forms to bring the audience to its knees, laughing." —The Milwaukee Journal. "…the audience almost never stops laughing—handkerchiefs wiping away tears of merriment…" —Variety. "…a spring tonic of side-bruising laughter…" —The Milwaukee Tribune.

THE STORY: Now an aspiring young architect in Terre Haute, Indiana, Willum Cubbert has often told his friends about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met but who saved his life after he was seriously wounded in Vietnam. He has written to Rick to say that, as long as he is alive, "you will have somebody on Earth who will do anything for you"—so Willum is delighted when Rick shows up unexpectedly at his apartment on the night of his thirty-fourth birthday party. But his delight soon fades as it becomes apparent that Rick is a hopeless "nerd"—a bumbling oaf with no social sense, little intelligence and less tact. And Rick stays on and on, his continued presence among Willum and his friends leading to one uproarious incident after another, until the normally placid Willum finds himself contemplating violence—a dire development which, happily, is staved off by the surprising "twist" ending of the play.

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AUDITIONS

FOR

An Inspector Calls

a mystery by J.B. Priestley

July 12 & 14

from 7-8:30pm

callbacks on July 16 at 7pm

Auditions will be held at the

Rocky Hill Community Center

761 Old Main Street

Rocky Hill, CT 06067

Call 860-563-3471 if you cannot come those dates and need an appointment.

You will be required to read from the script.

Shows will be on

October 15, 23, 24

Play Information

4 men, 3 women: 7 total

Produced in London and New York. According to Variety, the play is a psychologically adept work and "an engaging play…Its mood is sustained throughout, so that it is practically always interesting." Though ostensibly a remarkably clear and effective dramatic play, there underlies the whole thing an air of mystic unreality. AN INSPECTOR CALLS is an effective presentation of the strange twists that take place in human beings when their consciences are affected. .

THE STORY: The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply in the girl's undoing. The family, closely knit and friendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike, before the evening is over. The surprising revelation, however, is in the inspector—who turns out to be a mysterious individual with full knowledge of everyone's connection with the suicide.