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By LANE FILLER [email protected]
Friday, August 15, 2003 Page: 7
A play within a play within a lovelorn writer’s head. A comedy, a romance
and a mystery. That’s “Figments,” which the Endless Mountains Theatre
Company presents this weekend.
Rick writes mystery plays, when he doesn’t have writer’s block. Even when
he can’t put words to paper, his overactive imagination creates scenes enacted
by himself, his mother, the girl he loves, her boyfriend and his dead father,
now consigned to an urn.
When he can write, his characters appear before the audience, mirrored by
the real people in his life and often unwilling to speak the lines he has
written.
Simply, there are often two Ricks on stage, two mothers, two love interests
and two of her bulky, balky boyfriends. One set is real; the other is composed
of the characters he is writing about.
“Figments” will be performed at 7:30 tonight and tomorrow and 4 p.m.
Sunday at the Blue Ridge High School in New Milford. For more information,
call 434-2422.
At the Pocono Playhouse, “The Scarlet Pimpernel” promises romance, music,
intrigue and comedy this week and next.
“The Scarlet Pimpernel,” written by Baroness Orczy, is the story of a
band of Englishmen during the French Revolution who risk their lives to save
victims from the guillotine. The leader is known only by his calling card, a
red star-shaped flower called the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Performances are at 8 tonight, 4 and 8 p.m. tomorrow and 2 p.m. Sunday.
Additional shows are at 4 and 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 8 p.m. Aug. 22, 4
and 8 p.m. Aug. 23 and 2 p.m. Aug. 24.
Tickets are $20-$24 depending on date and time, and discounts are available
for groups of 20 or more. The theater is on Playhouse Lane in Mountainhome.
For more information, call 595-7456.
Also at the Pocono Playhouse this weekend is “The Wizard of Oz,” a show
meant for children but fun for adults. Shows are at 11 a.m. today and
tomorrow.
Locally written by Michael Cotter and produced by the Scranton Public
Theater, “Coaltown Breaker” is back for a fresh run, this time at the
Pittston Area Senior High School auditorium.
The story is loosely based on the 1963 Sheppton Mine Disaster, in which two
men were trapped hundreds of feet underground for days, yet survived. The show
is an imaginative journey into what the men might have discussed, felt and
seen in their time underground, and a third character, looming in the men’s
imagination, sings traditional mining songs to lend context to their struggle.
Shows are at 8 tonight and tomorrow, and tickets are $15 for adults and $10
for children. For more information, call 344-3656.
Also, the Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre has announced its schedule for the
2003-2004 season, its 81st. First on the menu is “Footloose,” Sept. 12, 13,
19, 20 and 21. Next comes “Misery,” slated to run Nov. 7, 8, 14, 15 and 16.
The musical “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” hits the stage on March 19, 20, 26, 27 and
28, and “Noises Off” closes out the season June 4, 5, 11, 12 and 13.