The Dining Room

Tickets are on sale for performances of The Dining Room. Show opens on Feb. 10 and runs for two weekends. Dinner theatre performances are Friday and Saturday evenings. Sunday performances are (no food) matinees. Buy your tickets today!

Auditions Jan. 2 and 3rd

Auditions will be held for The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney. This play will be co-directed by Kevin McGuire and Cheryl Atkins.

Dates: Monday January 2, 6:30-8:00 pm
Tuesday January 3, 6:30-8:00 pm

Callbacks: Tuesday January 3, 6:30-8:00 pm

Location: Sunflower Cafe at East Mountain High School, 25 La Madera Road, Sandia Park

Roles available:
Minimum of 3 males and 3 females who will play multiple characters across multiple age ranges- a tour de force of the actors’ versatility and skill.

The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP. The actors change roles, personalities and ages with virtuoso skill as they portray a wide variety of characters, from little boys to stern grandfathers, and from giggling teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Each vignette introduces a new set of people and events; a father lectures his son on grammar and politics; a boy returns from boarding school to discover his mother’s infidelity; a senile grandmother doesn’t recognize her own sons at Christmas dinner; a daughter, her marriage a shambles, pleads futilely to return home, etc. Dovetailing swiftly and smoothly, the varied scenes coalesce, ultimately, into a theatrical experience of exceptional range, compassionate humor and abundant humanity.

For More Information: call 286-1950

Auditions for Holiday Play

Auditions for “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and Then Some)! will be held on Monday, October 24th and Tuesday, October 25 from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm at the Sunflower Cafe at East Mountain High School, 25 La Madera Road, Sandia Park, NM.

3 actors between the ages of 35 and 55 are needed. The production dates are December 9 – 18th.

Production Description
Three actors decide to bypass Dickens’ beloved holiday classic and stage a Christmas show that leaves no tinsel unturned. A madcap romp through the holiday season. This is a fast paced, holiday comedy.

Acting Workshop – Saturday, Oct. 29th

ACTOR’S WORKSPACE
EMCT INTENSIVE
SATURDAY, OCT. 29TH, NOON – 5
TAUGHT BY JOANNE CAMP and LEE KITTS
This EMCT sponsored “intensive” actors workshop is designed to introduce participants to Actor’s Workspace’s craft-based approach to acting and to give all a great acting workout — we begin with an invigorating voice/speech/relaxation/text session and work strengthening our connection to ourselves, to the script, the character and to each other.
Joanne Camp moved to New Mexico from New York City where she enjoyed a 30-year professional acting career.  Her work on and off Broadway is recognized with Tony & Drama Desk Award nominations and Clarence Derwent, Theatre World, Obie & Callaway Awards.  Film/TV credits:  Private Parts, Law & Order, Canterbury’s Law & Damages.  New Mexico: Joanne has worked professionally with Fusion Theatre and as Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Santa Fe University and she continues to teach privately at the UNM and in Julie Reichert’s Warrior Woman.
Lee Kitts’ acting, directing and teaching career spans 30 years.  Trained at the San Francisco Theatre Academy, Lee has taught acting in Ashland, Oregon where, in addition to acting and directing, she worked as an artist in residence for the Oregon Public Schools and coached young actors at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  In Ashland, Lee created her own comprehensive actor-training program.  Other teaching and directing: San Francisco, teaching at Voicetrax San Francisco; directing and teaching on the island if Kaua’i, HI; Louisville, KY: the creation of Theatre Lab Louisville.
AT THE CEDAR CREST FITNESS CENTER
12220 State Highway 14 N, Cedar Crest New Mexico
$50 for the 5 hour session
Limited to 10 students
Call now to reserve your space
286.1683

Local Playwright Pens Murder Mystery Musical Comedy

Playwright and East Mountain resident, Richard Atkins, writes another murder mystery musical comedy for the East Mountain Centre for Theatre. “Dead End Killington Drive” – the Jack-O-Lantern Murders opens on October 7th and runs for three weekends. Dinner theatre performances are on Friday and Saturday nights with the meal catered by Greenside Cafe. Sunday performances are “no food” matinees.

“Dead End Killington Drive”takes place in a sleepy suburb of Sedona, Arizona. There’s a copy cat murderer who is killing people who reside on the dead end street Killington Drive.  The perpetrator wears a Jack-O-Lantern head mimicking the killer from the new John Carpenter film, “Dead End Killington Drive.”  As the bodies pile up, the mystery deepens. Will you be able to figure out who the murderer is?

You won’t want to miss this play. Last year the murder mystery (The Dress Shop Murders of 1933) sold out. Buy your tickets now so you can secure your seats.

Questions? Call the EMCT hotline at 505.286.1950 and leave a message or send an email to: emct@att.net.  Your call will be returned.

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