Mrs. Shanley’s Irish Spring
A one-woman monologue. Meg Shanley, a recent widow, decides to take the trip to Ireland she had planned with her recently deceased husband. Accompanying her is her shy cousin Marty. Landing in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day,she is suddenly and persistently pursued by a gentleman horse breeder from County Meath. He follows her all over the country, wines and dines her, and asks her to marry him the night before she leaves. Is he too good to be true? The family starts taking sides on his character. Is this the opportunity of a lifetime or something more sinister? It's a bit of a mystery, a bit of a comedy, but above all, a fascinating story with a surprise ending.
|
 |
| Mrs. Shanley's Irish Spring |
|
|
Friday October 8 at 10pm and Saturday October 9 at 8pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
The Naughty Nanas
The dark side of sweet little old ladies, the Nanas engage in illegal, immoral and occasionally felonious activities. Bad, but funny nanas.
|
 |
| The Naughty Nanas |
|
|
Saturday October 9 at 4pm and Sunday October 10 at 8pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
Stuff TV
Fresh from the manic mind of Michael Molineaux, this over the top take on home shopping introduces a line of incredibly useful items, all of them on sale but going fast. Joined by Amy Joy Laffin, “Stuff TV” was a fan favorite when produced last August. Get out your credit cards and get ready for “Stuff TV”!
|
 |
| Stuff TV |
|
|
Friday October 8 at 8pm and Saturday October 9 at 10pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
Melting in Madras by HR Britton
In 1995, a wide-eyed, 23-year-old, just-out-of-college H.R. Britton traveled to India to explore yoga and music for a year. After three months, his quest for spiritual clarity took a detour when he became seriously ill. Drawing on storytelling, character work, and live music, Melting in Madras vividly paints portraits of the people he met, and tells the tale of his pilgrimage with all its confusion and beauty. The Hindu called Britton’s previous work “a moving and humorous account of an India less traveled.” BackStage has called him “an engaging storyteller ... one honest, likable guy telling his story with unaffected simplicity.”
|
 |
| Melting in Madras' HR Britton |
|
|
Thursday October 7 at 8pm and Saturday October 9 at 4pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
Lau Lapides Company
Lau Lapides Company will be presenting a series of performances featuring; Jeff Onore in Rainbow Mouth, a hilarious one-man expression of urban loneliness of depression and Ibrahim Miari will be portraying the complexities and contradictions inherent in Palestinian-Israeli identity in the solo performance In Between. Hortense Gerardo will perform SCRUB combining percussion, flamenco and butoh-inspired movement. Award winning playwright George Matry Masselam presents Round Trip to Monte Carlo (multiple winner at Playwright’s Platform Festival in Boston), directed by Lau Lapides wherein an Arab American young man seeks the blessing of his fiancee’s mother in South Western Virginia.
| |
Friday October 8 at 8pm and Sunday October 10 at 4pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
A Brush with Death
Just in time for Halloween, four short comedies about near misses, close calls, death-defying feats, and encounters with the Grim Reaper. Includes End of Messages by 2009 NEFF Producer’s Award winner, Peter M. Floyd, Essence of Oleander in Buttercup Tea by Judith Plummer, On the Strut by Hortense Gerardo, and Remember the Time by Michael Haddad. Directed by Michael Haddad and Ronni Marshak. Starring Lis Adams, Bill DeRusha, Kelly Estes, Michael Haddad, and Chris Murphy. (Cartoon A Brush with Death © Craig Swanson 1995 and used by permission. http://www.perspicuity.com.)
|
 |
| A Brush with Death © Craig Swanson 1995 |
|
|
Saturday October 9 at 4pm and 8pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
Bari Lee
Bari Lee is known as Boston’s “middle-aged comedienne. Her material covers a wide range of topics: travel experiences, the overweight woman’s guide to political correctness (“I want to be called a Dairy Queen-American”), getting older, and a brief history of baked potatoes.
Bari speaks frankly about being middle-aged, overweight and divorced, without insulting herself or getting political. Behind the jokes is an empowering sub-text: no matter how you look or what your problems are, you can still have fun and enjoy life’s pleasures.
|
|
Friday October 8 at 10pm and Saturday October 9 at 8pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
Mirrors, Moonshine and the Masked Man
STEVE BELLWOOD : playwright, poet and monologuist. Born and raised in West Yorkshire, England, via London and New York City, now settled in New Haven, Ct. USA, with two American sons. "MIRRORS, MOONSHINE & THE MASKED MAN" is a personalized attempt to penetrate the veil between fact and fiction, myth and history, religion and faith, aliens and the merely alienated."Impressive, intelligent, hilarious, unique, engaging...Comic stream-of-consciousness story-telling...If you like spoken-word work and play, it's a must-see." (California Rogue Festival)
|
 |
| Mirrors, Moonshine and the Masked Man |
|
|
Saturday October 9 at 10pm and Sunday October 10 at 8pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
How to be a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less
How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less is not a coming out story. And itʼs not not a coming out story. With some outrageous characters and some personal stories, Leigh Hendrix has created a solo performance piece about the making of one lesbian identity that is not so much about what it means to be a lesbian, but what happens when you talk about it.
Leigh Hendrix is a Providence based theatre artist and educator who is loves to tell stories with all kinds of people. Find out more about her work at LeighHendrix.tumblr.com
|
 |
| How to be a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less |
|
|
Sunday October 10 at 8pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
GIRL TALK THEATER
Rewind Fastforward
Our mission is to empower poor, homeless and marginilized women through the art of theatre. We teach theatre classes in area shelters and safe havens. We work with the students in these classes to create original theatre pieces based on their true stories. At NEFF we will be performing two pieces created by the group. The first piece is a slice of life in Boston Common featuring both characters that are homeless and those that are not, and how they react to each other. The second piece is a satirical look at the complicated process of getting Section 8 housing.Both pieces are based on true experiences of our performers. We look forward to introducing the Boston Theatre community to these amazing, unique and powerful performers"
|
 |
| Girl Talk Theater |
|
|
Saturday October 9 at 4pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
Conjured Visions
Conjured Visions, by Cory Haines - Conjured Visions is an amazing, award winning one man show that combines magic, music and storytelling to transport the audiance on a journey to find the secret to turning dreams into reality. This show was recently selected as the most original act by the Magician's Alliance of Eastern States. One segment, titled "Withch Hunt" was also made into an award-winning short film.
|
 |
| Cory Haines |
|
|
Friday October 8 at 8pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
Stiletto Singers
The "Stiletto Singers" is a new female theatrical performance company that combines singing, dancing, acting, and comedy to create a wide variety of shows. With our extensive experience in interactive theatre and improvisation, we are able to bring a unique "Stiletto" twist to each show. We promise dynamic vocals, exciting choreography, and quirky characters. All of this is topped off with authentic costumes to compliment each song and a Vaudevillian sensibility.
|
 |
| The Stiletto Singers |
|
|
Thursday October 7 at 8pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
Ghostlight Theater presents
Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
THE PILLOWMAN, written by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, was the winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2004. Katurian, a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state, is interrogated by two bulldogish detectives, Tupolski and Ariel regarding missing children cases which resemble his own Grimm’s-styled stories. The evening progresses from interrogation room to prison cell and back, leading to discoveries about the writer's own dark childhood, the brother whom he cares for, and the stories at the heart of it all. With many twists and turns, the line between reality and fairy tale is blurred until it's hard to know who is telling the truth in this thoughtful thriller. Warning: contains graphic and unsettling topics and dialogue.
| |
Thursday October 7 at 8pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
Toilet Bowl Love
A heartwarming story of an usually love between a young girl and her toilet. A sexy, acrobatic romp through the excitement of first love, toilet and girl share a unique acrobatic partner dance. The next day, waking up to reality, a bit of the mystery remains with a hula-hooping number not to be missed!
Photo Credit: Irina Peligrad
| |
Friday October 8 at 10pm
Click here to purchase tickets - note, this show performs with other productions.
|
|
