Show | Playlets and Poetry Festival |
Company | Northeast Stage |
Director | Nicholas Auletti |
Producer | Nicholas Auletti and Suzette Reiss |
Notes | Attendance is required for all performances and rehearsals during tech week (October 7th-17th). If you are interested in helping with lights, sound, or backstage, please let us know! Thank you! |
Instructions | Please memorize a monologue or poem from 1 to 2 minutes in length. In may be either or comedic. Be ready to play! If you have any questions, please get in touch with Nicholas Auletti at aulettinicholas@gmail.com or call/text him at 631-566-2387. If you have a poem you'd like to submit or suggest a poem that is a hidden gem for the festival, please email your submissions to aulettinicholas@gmail.com |
Rehearsal Dates | August 26 - October 17 |
Performance Dates | 10/18 - 7:00 PM at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church , 10/19 - 7:00 PM at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 10/20 - 5:00 PM at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 10/24 - 7:00 PM at Jamesport Meeting House 10/25 - 7:00 PM at Jamesport Meeting House 10/26 - 7:00 PM at Jamesport Meeting House 10 27 - 5:00 PM at Jamesport Meeting House |
Questions | Send Mail |
Submissions | aulettinicholas@gmail.com |
Show Info | Northeast Stage is proud to present its first Playlets and Poetry Festival! The Opening Night Reception, which will include food and drink, will be held on October 18th. Northeast Stage proudly supports the Greenport, Jamesport, and surrounding communities. Northeast Stage's Playlet and Poetry Festival encompasses ten Halloween-themed one-acts and adapted poetry into one night of theatre. When the theatre troupe, The Macabre Masqueraders, gets stuck in a basement during a wild tornado, they perform their repertoire of ghoulish and supernatural plays and poetry to pass the time. |
Type | Location | Date | Time |
Open | Holy Trinity Episcopal Church 768 Main St Greenport | Aug 19 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM |
Open | Holy Trinity Episcopal Church 768 Main St Greenport | Aug 21 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM |
Call Back | Holy Trinity Episcopal Church 768 Main St Greenport | Aug 23 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM |
Roles
Role | M/F | Age | Description | Mozart and The Gray Steward by Thornton Wilder | Description: A mysterious visitor wearing a mask and representing a prince offers Mozart the fabulous sum of 400 crowns to write a Requiem Mass. The offer is tied to an understanding that the composer will never "by any sign, by so much as a nod of your head, acknowledge that the work is yours." Mozart agrees to the bargain. Later, while Mozart sleeps, the masked visitor returns to him in a dream, representing a different patron–Death. | Mozart and The Gray: Constanze | F | 20-30 | Mozart's wife, she keeps all his affairs running with a frantic edge | Mozart and The Gray: Mozart | M | 30-40 | the composer, fatigued, is compelled to write new compositions. | Mozart and The Gray: The Gray Steward | M | 50-70 | a mysterious visitor, ghostly and cryptic. He has his agenda, and the almighty powers of Death are by his side. | When Wendy Grew Up by J.M. Barrie | Description: In this epilogue, Wendy Darling grows up and becomes an adult with a daughter named Jane. Peter Pan returns to take Wendy back to Neverland, only to find that she has aged and can no longer accompany him. This realization is a poignant moment for Peter, who remains forever young and cannot comprehend the passage of time and the changes it brings. | When Wendy Grew Up: Peter Pan | M | 13-20 | teens-20s, mischievous and adventurous | When Wendy Grew Up: Wendy | F | 30-50 | matronly | When Wendy Grew Up: Jane | F | 13-50 | (Wendy’s daughter) naive and spirited | When Wendy Grew Up: Nana | M/F | Their dog | Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti | Description: A narrative poem by Christina Rossetti, first published in 1862. The poem tells the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who encounter goblin merchants selling exotic and enchanting fruits. The goblins' cries to "Come buy, come buy" are alluring and ominous. Seduced by the goblins' tempting offers, Laura buys and consumes the fruit, paying with a lock of her golden hair. After eating the fruit, Laura becomes addicted and desperately craves more, but the goblins disappear, leaving her in a state of declin | Goblin Market: Jeanie | F | 50-80 | Narrator and former buyer from The Goblin Market | Goblin Market: Lizzie | F | 20-30 | naive sister of Laura | Goblin Market: Laura | F | Curious and protective of Lizzie, her morals sometimes don't equal her ethics | Goblin Market: Goblins (6) | M/F | All shapes and sizes, aggressive, reflective of animal | Fears of Zero by Jerry Juhl | Description: Zero, a man alone in his study, recites his worst fears and how he cannot conquer them. | Fears of Zero: Zero | M | 30-60 | a man reflective, ready to settle the score with his insecurities | Fears of Zero: Fears (6) | M/F | agile, similar to the archetypes in the Noh theatrical tradition | Knock! Knock! Who's There?! By Edward Albee | Description: An installment piece from the same playwright who penned Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Albee places a critic outside a theater wanting to get in but is stuck outside and cannot fit in with the "in-crowd." | Knock! Knock! Who's There?!: The Critic | M | 40-50 | sincere and lost, he cannot seem to open the doors to the theater no matter how hard he tries | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Description: A sweeping narrative/epic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem begins with an old mariner stopping a wedding guest to recount his tale of a disastrous sea voyage. The mariner describes how his ship sailed southward and encountered an albatross, which brought good fortune. However, he inexplicably shoots the albatross with his crossbow, bringing a curse upon the ship and its crew. | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Bride | F | 20-50 | glowing at the prospect of her new life | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Groom | M | 20-50 | glowing at the prospect of his new wife | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Wedding Guests | M/F | all ages are in awe of the new couple | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Priest | M | 40-70 | probably of the Episcopal persuasion | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Jock 1 | M | 30-50 | rich, arrogant, knows his insecurities | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Jock 2 | M | 30-50 | middle-class, sticks with Jock 3 due to their similar following of Jock 1 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Jock 3 | M | 30-50 | faux middle-class, a bit shabby, sticks with Jock 2 due to their similar following of Jock 1 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: The Ancient Mariner | M | 50-80 | a frail older man whose traumas of the past haunt him and yearn for him to teach others | When Marshmallows Burn by Tara Meddaugh | Description: Sammy and his mom enjoy roasting marshmallows by the fire under the full moon when something extraordinary happens. Sammy’s arms look a little furry. His teeth look a lot like fangs. And he has a sudden urge to kill squirrels—and eat them raw. What (or who) else will he have an urge to kill? Is there anything his mother can do to stop him, or can she ultimately accept and love him? This is a dark comedy about a boy becoming a werewolf, but it’s also a story about needing acceptance and love in the face of e | When Marshmallows Burn: Melissa | F | 30-40 | Mother to Sammy | When Marshmallows Burn: Sammy | M | 10 | A boy around 10, Melissa’s son; an actor may play him in his 20s | The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe | Description: A narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The poem tells the story of a grieving man who is visited by a mysterious raven late at night. The man is lamenting the loss of his beloved Lenore and is trying to distract himself by reading. | The Raven: The Homeowner | M | Paranoia and anxiety riddle him to no end, and his tipping point is a raven that lands on his front ledge | Christina Rossetti's Poetry Slam (Echo, Remember, A Bruised Reed He Shall Not Break When I Am Dead, My Dearest) | Description: These four poems sum up the best of what Rossetti could offer the public. Sincere, pointed, and beautifully crafted, this story follows four women grappling with the complexity of their Victorian cages and discovering that their sufferings intermingle. | Poetry Slam: Woman 1 | F | 13-20 | in her teens/20s, naive and vulnerable, her innocence has kept her optimistic about the world that surrounds her | Poetry Slam: Woman 2 | F | 20-30 | bitter and angsty, slighted by her first love and coerced into unforgiving domesticity, she goes against all female Victorian stereotypes to "wake up" her counterparts around her | Poetry Slam: Woman 3 | F | 30-50 | much more seasoned and mature than Woman 2. She's experienced motherhood and has proven a dutiful housewife. She's learned to adapt to the ever-changing times and is complacent. | Poetry Slam: Woman 4 | F | 60-80 | a bitter remembrance of Woman 2, reflective of herself and the life she's lived, she resents Woman 3 the most yet and longs to back to the times of innocence of Woman 1 | Cold Journey in the Dark by Godwin Parke | Description: A robust dialogue between the ghosts of Jesus and Judas, it is, in the author’s words, not so much about two men involved as the clear types they represent: the follower who must at all costs find an icon to worship and the born visionary leader who attracts such people, so imbued by his vision, he never looks back to see if his worshippers can understand or keep up with him. | Cold Journey: Jesus | M | a legend brought about before his time | Cold Journey: Judas | M | a legend stripped before his time began |