GUILFORD — Guilford Center Stage continues into its fifth year with spring and fall productions of plays ranging from nonsense to political satire, and with connections to Vermont and Guilford, continuing its mission to present place-based theater on the stage at the renovated Broad Brook Community Center.
Alice is the spring show, on the last weekend in April. The musical play, directed by Richard Epstein, is a memento of a well-known Monteverdi Players production.
The 1978 production of the familiar Carroll classic, which was performed on a farm near Guilford Center, is condensed from the original 100-acre venue to the chamber-sized stage in the Grange hall, and will feature the musical score from the original play by composer Nicholas Humez. Evelyn McLean is vocal music director.
The Guilford Center Stage season will also see a return of “Stage and Stream,” a weeklong Theater Camp in August, for 9-13 year olds, co-produced with the Guilford Free Library.
The morning sessions will take place on the Center Stage, with mostly-outdoor activities in the afternoons based at the Library. For further information on the camp, contact Cathi Wilken, Librarian of Guilford Free Library, at 802-257-4603 or [email protected].
The season concludes with an October production of a stage adaptation of It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, who wrote the novel at his Barnard, Vt., home in 1935. Richard Wizansky directs the Guilford production.
The play is set in a fictional Vermont town. Against the backdrop of the rise of fascism in Europe, a demagogue is elected President of the U.S. after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and “traditional” values.
Actor auditions for the season will be held in two sessions; Saturday, Feb. 9, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Tuesday, Feb. 12, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at Broad Brook Community Center, 3940 Guilford Center Rd.