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Laughing Stock
a comedy by Charles Morey
About The Show
Gordon Page, a middle-aged artistic director of a summer stock barn
theater in New Hampshire, embarks on the theater's 67th season taking the random and comical cast and crew on a wild ride that includes giant mosquitoes,
eccentric directors and a very limited budget while the group gallantly
attempts to keep the ship from sinking. Laughing Stock gives audiences a
backstage look at a ragtag troupe of actors and their backstage mischief
as they attempt to stage three repertory productions. Hamlet, Charley's Aunt
and Dracula have never been performed like this! This show is a hectic and
hilarious testament to
theaters everywhere that never seem to have enough
time, staff, money or talent to pull off the show, yet in the end,
everyone gives it their all. It captures the magic of theater, showing how the art
form tells a story while at the same time creating a temporary family
amongst the cast and crew no matter where the show goes on.
Laughing Stock had its world premiere at the Pioneer Theatre Company on
February 7, 2001. It was nominated for the 2001 American Theatre Critic's
Association New Play Award, and won the Best Original Play Award from the
New Hampshire Theatre Association in 2004. Of Laughing Stock, Charles
Morey says, "Everyone in the theater has their own "Playhouse." The place where
there was never enough of anything . . . where sometimes the doors fell
off their hinges and the sound cues ran backwards, but where you gave
yourself
over wholly to the making of plays. . . . It is those places, and
especially those people, this play celebrates."
The Cast
Eric Oswald - Michael Rogan - Denise Bernstein - Kenny Fadeley - Adam
Young - Don Bernardo - Linda Ryan - Steve Ryan -Christine Bohn - Miranda
Fantz - Ben Walter - Nick Hahn - Leah McCoy
Directed by Bob McCoy