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Tickets Now Available for

 

FrUiTCaKeS

a Comedy by Julian Wiles

Fun for the entire family!

Directed by Sherry Ahlers
Produced by Laurie Carter

Fridays December 4 and 11 at 7 p.m.
Saturdays December 5 and 12 at 7 p.m.
Sundays December 6 and 13 at 2 p.m.

2nd Story Playhouse
108 Spruce Street, Ilwaco

Tickets $10  available at:

Imperial Schooner, Ilwaco

Stormin’ Normans, Long Beach

Okie’s Thriftway, Ocean Park

At the door

Improv Saturday Night

Saturday, November 21st at 7:00 pm

The Peninsula Players presents Improv Saturday Night.  An opportunity to come and watch and join in some fun improv games and activities.  Singers are also welcome – we have in the past had ukulele players singing songs, an occasional person playing a coat hanger (this is improv remember).

What is improv?  Well the best way to describe it is first to ask the question, have you ever watched “Whose Line is it Anyway?” (either the original BBC version or the Drew Carey hosted show that aired on network TV a few years back).  The participants are given a scene with minimal instruction and have to act it out.  We have a few standard games we like to play and we are always looking for new ideas and new victims, err volunteers to come up on stage and join us.

Bring your friends and family.  A good time will be had by all.

That’s 7:00 pm on Saturday, November 21st at the Second Story Playhouse in Ilwaco, WA.  On the corner of Spruce and 1st Street above Just Treasures.

Hope to see you there.

Karl Johnson (head nut case, nut head case, guy they put in charge)

Volunteer Opportunity

Our housekeeping day is the 7th of November from 9 to 11 AM.

 

ALL are welcome.

 

Many hands make fast and easy work.

Janis

 

Tickets on Sale Now!

For Neil Simon’s

     Barefoot in the Park

October 16,17 at 7 p.m

October 18 at 2 p.m.

October 23,24 at 7 p.m.

October 25 at 2 p.m.

2nd Story Playhouse   (above JT’s Cafe)

Tickets available at Okies Thriftway (Ocean Park), Stormin’ Norman’s (Long Beach), Imperial Schooner (Ilwaco) and JT’s Cafe (Ilwaco)

Call for Auditions

“Fruitcakes”

Auditions will be held October 6,7,8 at 7 p.m.

Performances in December.  Parts for 4 men, 4 women, 7 girls, 6 boys. 

For more information: Director Sherry Ahlers 642-7203

Board Meeting Agenda-Wed. Sept 16

This could be a long board meeting.

1. Building
2. Mame
3. Doors
4. Lighting
5. Workshop
6. Garbage
7. Frequency of Board Meetings
8. Update on Barefoot in the Park
9. Newsletter
10. Season Tickets
11. Annual Plan for Donations

One Act Festival Schedule

One Act Festival!

 

Children’s Reader’s Theater
From a book by Caroline Feller Baurer
Directed by Rita Smith

 

 ”Children’s Theater” is a new adventure for Peninsula Players.  I chose 3 simple “Reader’s Theater” plays for this evening and developed them into 3 short plays. The cast is a wonderful group of enthusiastic children. They have worked very hard learning lines, stage directions and all that goes into performing on stage.  I want to also thank all my parents for their help with costumes, props, helping their children learn their lines, and just being there for their children and me!

Motorcycle Mama
Written and Directed by Jan Bono*

In “Motorcycle Mama,” Martha, a rather unassuming senior citizen, but still with plenty of spring in her step, wants to learn to ride a motorcycle. It’s on her “bucket list” and she is eager to get on a bike for the first time in her life. She goes to a local motorcycle repair shop and asks for someone to teach her to ride. She is met with much opposition from the mechanics at the shop until she offers to pay for the instruction.
Money talks, but first Martha must complete some menial maintenance tasks before Rawlin, the shop owner, will allow her to even sit on a bike. She agrees, and what transpires during her first “lesson” makes for a feel-good, heart-warming story.

Ilwaco’s Winoceros
Written and Directed by Joe Paliani*

The Time is the Present.  The Setting is a fictitious restaurant in Ilwaco harbor overlooking the fishing boats.  The cast consists of three diners and a waiter.  The Waiter finds most Diners boring and terribly unknowledgeable about wines; he therefore often likes to poke fun and joke with the customers, at their expense.  In this play, the Diners are at first unaware of how sophisticated The Waiter is about wines, and how much there is to learn about fine wine.  The challenge for the three diners is to succeed in placing an order for wine and food, orders which The Waiter is apparently in no hurry to take – lest the diners choose the wrong wines!  — or ask for the right wines, but at the wrong temperatures! 

 

All I Really Need to Know
I Learned by Being in a Bad Play

Written by Werner Trieschmann
Directed by Ed Ahlers

The play is Romeo and Juliet. Everyone remembers this play. We all read it in Jr. High. Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love,… like I said, we all know the story. But what really happened? As the late Paul Harvey would say, what is ‘the rest of the story?’ No, not with Romeo and Juliet, with producing the play? What could possibly happen when a community theater group decides to do a play published 412 years ago?

 

Friday, August 28, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 29, 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 30, 2:00 p.m.

2nd Story Playhouse, 108 Spruce St. (above JT’s)
Ilwaco

 

Tickets $5
Available at
Imperial Schooner-Ilwaco

Stormin’ Norman-Long Beach
Okie’s Market-Ocean Park 

Just Treasures Antiques-Ilwaco
At the Door

Learn from the Master Set Builder

Peninsula Players,
As most of you know, I’m “passing the torch” to others to build the stage sets, and I would like to teach others what little I know. Therefore, I am having a workshop this Saturday starting at 10 AM at the Second Story Playhouse in Ilwaco, We will spend time on set terms, set design, what makes a good set, and we will build some flats for the next play.  
Dean Mead

Setmaking 101

Saturday August 22 ‘09
10:00am – 3(?) pm
@ Second Story Playhouse

Bring: (If you have them) Power drill with crosspoint (philips) screwdriver, tape measure, square, Staple gun. 

We will break for lunch.  A couple of restaurants are nearby, or you can bring your own sack lunch.