New Hampshire Theatre Project Announces 2015 Intelligent Theatre Festival

New Hampshire Theatre Project just announceed the 2015 Intelligent Theatre Festival. The festiabl will run through the month of June and features some knockout new work.

On Friday, June 12 at 7pm NHTP presents The Square by Amy Merrill then on Saturday June 13 at 7pm NHTP presents Dinner at Eight by Kaufman & Ferber

The festival will take place at the Portsmouth Museum of Art, 909 Islington Street, Portsmouth NH. Tickets are $10 general admission includes playreading & discussion

For reservations, call 603-431-6644 ext. 5, or email reservations@nhtheatreproject.org

NHTP's third annual Intelligent Theatre Festival concludes with two exciting playreadings on June 12 & 13 at the Portsmouth Museum of Art. Each reading is followed by a discussion between audience members and the playwright, director and actors.

On Friday, June 12 at 7 pm, NHTP is proud to present The Square, directed by CJ Lewis. Playwright Amy Merrill teaches courses on "war writing" at Berklee College of Music and likes to write "comic plays about serious subjects." Her first script,The TV War about a Vietnam veteran and Agent Orange, was produced in Boston at the same time the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial was being dedicated in Washington. The Square contains similar themes - the challenge of transitioning home after deployment and the effect of war on a marriage - but it also focuses on an event the veteran witnessed at Nisour Square just before he returns home. The leading character in The Square will be read by Jonathan Rockwood Hoar, artistic director of Veterans in Performing Arts.

On Saturday, June 13 at 7 pm, director Genevieve Aichele leads a cast of 20+ community members in Dinner at Eight, the 1932 classic spoof of life "on the fast track" by George Kaufman & Edna Ferber. Best known for the cinema adaptation starring Jean Harlow, John and Lionel Barrymore, Dinner at Eight is a comedy of manners in which social butterfly Mrs. Oliver Jordan arranges a dinner party that will benefit the business of her husband. Nothing goes as planned, due to various suicides, double-crosses, compromises, fatal illness, and servant problems. In spite of all this, however, dinner is served precisely at eight.

Photo Credit: Robert Macadaeg, Tom Olson & Peter Josephson reading Prion at Intelligent Theatre Festival 2014. Photo by Sam Martin-Delaney

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