| Dear
Village Theatre Project Members, Audiences and Friends:
 It’s
inspiring, isn’t it, to think how far we’ve come since
our Grand Opening performance at Gibbet Hill in Groton, in June
2005? Twenty-three actors and theatre artists with a dream of
creating a home in the Nashoba Valley – finding an audience
that believes in what we’re doing and supports us as we
dedicate ourselves to creating theatre, both new and timeless,
that touches us all and is relevant today.
Our audience on that very first Grand Opening
night told their friends about us, who came to see us and then
told their friends – we have many new Village Theatre Project
Members now as we prepare for 2006-2007, our second full season:
In July 2006 our Company of Artists congregated
once again in Ashby for our second Ashby Retreat, where we collaborated
to develop new work and our own skills, and to prepare for the
upcoming season. We’ll kick off our performing season with
Spinning Into Butter, September 29 – October 15, in our
150-seat black box theatre on the stage of the Groton-Dunstable
Performing Arts Center. A provocative play by acclaimed playwright
Rebecca Gilman, Spinning
Into Butter explores the dangers of political correctness
and racism at a normally quiet New England college.
We’ve already started scripting our Fall
Fun(d)raiser, a theatrical extravaganza with a twist, November
11. On December 9 we’ve been invited to perform an
evening of Holiday Pops with the Thayer
Symphony Orchestra at Montachusett Tech in Fitchburg. Our
Young Company programs will continue, beginning with REP workshops
this fall and building toward a Young Company Musical in February
2007.
And we couldn’t be more excited about our
spring production – Janet Kenney’s comedy Theresa
at Home is, with Better Off Dead, one of the three
scripts we helped to develop during last summer’s Ashby
Retreat. We’ll co-produce the show with Boston Playwrights
Theatre, performing there in March and then at the Groton-Dunstable
Performing Arts Center April 14-28, 2007.
As we move into this diverse and challenging season,
our one requirement is this: each and every time we perform we
strive to show audiences something new - a little better, funnier,
more touching or more surprising than they expected. Please consider
becoming a Village Theatre Project Member and joining our family.
I think that you’ll find when we look back a year from now,
that you’re as proud as we are of what we’ve accomplished.
Very Sincerely,
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Troy
Siebels and Christopher Chew
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