Theatre Company of Saugus

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TCS will participate in this year’s Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters Festival, along with ten other community theaters from the area. We will present Anton Chekhov’s The Proposal at 7:00 PM on Friday 29 June 2012, at Chelmsford High School in Chelmsford, MA.  Mark your calendars now to come support TCS.  Tickets for the festival are now available, see http://www.emact.org/. 

TCS first presented The Proposal at A Night of One Acts in February 2011.  The same cast and production team are happy to have the opportunity to reprise this entertaining show.  Nancy Welch will again direct, joined by Jessica Stockton.  Megan Joyce (stage manager for our last festival piece Props) will serve as stage manager.  Larry Segel, Nicholas Meunier, and Amanda Allen will perform.

There will be a local preview performance of The Proposal, prior to the Festival.  At ESUMC on Friday 22 June 2012 at 7:00 PM.  The evening will be filled out with a silent auction, refreshments, and additional entertainment by the Harborlight Showchoir.  Admission is free, but donations are much appreciated, $5 suggested.

The evening will begin with a Silent Auction from 7 – 8 p.m.  We have several great items to offer, including:

1. One free photo session with 1 free 8×10 from Creative Images Boston (valued at $300)
2. Four tickets to the Arts After Hours production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night @ Lynn Woods  (2 sets, each valued at $80)
3. North Shore Navigators Tickets
4. A chiropractic exam and x-rays with Family Chiropractic in Saugus
5. Haircut from Johnny C’s Barbershop
6. An array of original 78 Records of Musicals
7. 2 tickets to the Winthrop Playmakers Music Man

And Much More!!!

Click here to download the flyer for the local preview performance.

Want to be involved? Contact one of the Producers Lisa Scopa or Sherri Raftery to see where help is needed. We are especially in need of a driver and crew for the transport of the set. To Chelmsford on Friday morning June 29. And then back to Saugus either late that night or on Saturday morning.

Please join us for the

 58th Annual EMACT Drama Festival
June 28 – 30, 2012
At the Performing Arts Center  / Chelmsford High School / Chelmsford, Massachusetts

Tickets can be purchased on-line or at the door

www.emact.org

Enjoy 11 productions over three days and see the diverse work of almost a dozen of our member groups.  Listen in on the public adjudications and reap the benefits of our learned panel.

Festival Participants

Please arrive in time to see the whole session.  Per AACT standards, the house is sealed when each show begins and no late-comers can be admitted.   Once we begin a show we operate on a rolling schedule, which means that as soon is the next show is ready, we go on.  Since this is a regional cycle, two Outstanding Productions will move on the Regional Festival in April of 2013.  

In addition to The Proposal, you will also see TCS members in the presentations of other groups.  In the same session as The Proposal, you will see Rosemary DeGregorio in Women of Lockerbie, followed by William Fafard in Crossing Brooklyn.  On Saturday morning, you will see Laramie Project, featuring Brian Dion, Lauren Amaru, Grace Meidanis, etc.

 Festival Adjudicators

 Annette Procunier: A 2008 EMACT Festival adjudicator, Annette is the author of the book, Do You See What I See? : How to Adjudicate Theatre Festivals. Annette has been active in theatre for 40 years starting, as so many do, with her high school play. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto. An acclaimed director, and in great demand as a teacher of adjudication and directing, Annette has adjudicated more than 100 festivals in North America, Europe and Asia during the past 26 years.

Benny Sato Ambush: As a distinguished Producing Director-In-Residence at Emerson Stage, the producing/presenting arm of the Department of Performing Arts, Emerson College, Boston, we are happy to have Benny return as an adjudicator for another EMACT Festival. He is a professional stage director, producer, Artistic Director, educator, consultant and published commentator with national and international experience.
His resume includes: Producing Director – Oakland (CA) Ensemble Theatre, Associate Artistic Director – San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, Acting Artistic Director – Providence, RI’s Rites and Reason Theatre Company, and Producing Artistic Director – Richmond, VA‘s Theatre Virginia.   His directorial highlights include: the Oregon Shakespeare Festival – Portland, Arizona Theatre Company, South Coast Rep, Old Globe Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre and Geva Theatre. He toured the former Soviet Union and Kenya via the United States Information Agency and adjudicated theater productions on U.S. Army, Air Force and NATO military bases in Germany, Belgium, Italy and Turkey.

Spencer Watson: A returning veteran of EMACT Festival, Spencer has been involved in scholastic, collegiate and community theatres since early high school days in Port Jefferson, NY in the late 1950’s. He minored in theatre at Allegheny College and has acted in over 75 non-professional productions. He has directed over 50 productions and has lent his technical expertise to lighting, set and sound design for numerous others. His productions have won awards in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Spencer has been involved in community theatre in New York, Connecticut, Texas, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. He represents Maryland in the Board of the Eastern States Theatre Association. He recently authored an article on adjudication.