Westport Community Theatre announces its first production of the 2016-2017 season, Camping with Henry and Tom, written by Mark St. Germain. The show, which has performances on weekends through Sunday, Oct. 2, is directed by Ruth Anne Baumgartner and produced by Joan Lasprogato.
Camping with Henry and Tom takes place in 1921, on a camping trip that includes Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and President
Warren G. Harding.
St. Germain builds on an actual event - the inclusion of the U.S. President in one of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's annual camping trips - to create a comedic and dramatic clash of two great minds and one great heart of the twentieth century. They find that, like all visits to the "green world," this escape into the wild is no escape at all. The play thoughtfully explores friendship, politics, and leadership.
St. Germain's play was a winner in the 1995 Off Broadway
Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Play of the season.
The Daily News called it "Unusually literate, funny and captivating!" and the
New York Postcommented that it was "Wonderfully entertaining ... Full of thought and feeling ... A treasure chest that leaves the audience aglow with pleasure."
The consists of Alexander Kulcsar, Sam Mink,
Rob Pawlikowski and Russ Martin. Kulcsar, who plays Ford, most recently appeared in The Outgoing Tide at Square One Theatre in Stratford, for which he received the 2016 Subscribers' Award for Outstanding Actor. He has been seen at WCT in
A Picasso (which he also directed),
The Seafarer, Copenhagen, and
Jeffrey Hatcher's
Turn of the Screw. Mink, a vital part of the WCT community, is cast as Harding. He has appeared in
The Miracle Worker, The Crucible, Orson's Shadow, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Proof, and
Glengarry Glen Ross in recent years with WCT and is also on its board of directors. Pawlikowski, who is in the role of Edison, has appeared at WCT in
Godspell, The Seafarer, Measure for Measure, and
Living Together. He also directed the WCT production of
The Front Page. Martin is Col. Edmund Starling in the current production (and also Stage Manager). He has been working in film and television since 2002, previously working in film crew positions and now producing documentaries, TV pilots, live theater, sketch comedies, and independent features.
Tickets are $25 with special senior and student pricing of $23. Reservations can be made by calling the Box Office at
203-226-1983 or
online here at westportcommunitytheatre.com
For directions, go to
westportcommunitytheatre.com
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