Événement

Country Store, a Radio Play for the Stage

Directed by Dorothy Johnson

Country Store is a play set as if for the radio in a 1940 general store somewhere in rural central Massachusetts. The Actors, including comedienne par excellence Dee Waterman of Amherst, will hold scripts in hand while the onstage narrative unfolds in a spare event designed to evoke pleasures understood before World War II as America emerged from the Depression. There are a few songs, one written with Johnson's lyrics by Andy Lichtenberg of Pelham whose collaborations with playwright Johnson have illuminated Meetinghouse performances since the early 1990s.

Songs include the Country Store children's rendition of George M. Cohan's "It's a Grand Old Flag" and the entire cast's version of Lichtenberg's "How I Love My Radio". A few radio jingles, old timey product ads relegated to song with no other illustration, will enhance Country Store, including one specially composed by Janet Paoletti.

Players from New Salem include,Ricardo Conde, John Ryan, Hugh Field, Judy Jewett, Susan Arnold, Bo Henderson, Janet Henderson, Marilyn Adams, and David Van Iderstine, Genie Casey, Peter Frost, Axel Larson, Joseph Greene, Jean Clayton, Henry Frost, Jean Derderian, Wendy Greene, and Nicole Sears Lisa De Witt, Ta Mara Conde, Sara Thayer, Mica Van Iderstine, Tessa Yohan, Hannah Dupont, and Aileen Fitzgerald, Ricky Phaeuf, Laura McGinness, Katie McGinness, Abel Wasilaski, and Clare Wasilaski. 0ut-of-towners in the cast are Dee Waterman (Amherst), Candi Fetzer (Orange), Mike Ross (Shutesbury) and Danielle Woodley (Leverett).