Quickies - 4 Short Plays from Provincetown
DUBLIN PERFORMANCES!
Provincetown Dramatic Arts is proud to report that Quickies - our collection of four plays from Ptown - has been chosen as an official selection of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival.
The plays - written by playwrights affiliated with Cape Cod - offer four unique perspectives of contemporary LGBTQ+ life in the America.
This is the seventh time plays produced by Provincetown Dramatic Arts have been chosen as official selections in the festival.
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Tickets…
DUBLIN PERFORMANCES:
Monday, May 9 - Friday, May 13 at 7:30pm
Saturday, May 14 at 2:30pm & 7:30pm
Teachers’ Club (Main Theatre)
36 Parnell Square W, Rotunda
Dublin 1, D01 T6V6, Ireland
About the Plays…
Madame Executrix
by Doug Asher-Best
Directed by Margaret Van Sant
Starring: Tommy Walsh, Joe MacDougall, and Ellen Rubenstein
Natalie has one job after her brother’s death, give away his beloved possessions according to his will, but Natalie has better ideas. Can he stop her from the afterlife?
Pulse
by Margaret Van Sant
Directed by Margaret Van Sant
Starring: Tia Scalcione, Vanessa Rose, Tommy Walsh, and Joe MacDougall
Everybody who loves Isabelle knows what she should do with her life now, except Isabelle. Who should she listen to? Her mother, her father, her friend, her nurse? Can she find a future after Pulse?
Look What You Made Me Do
By Lynda Sturner
Directed by Lynda Sturner
Starring: Tia Scalcione and Vanessa Rose
Grace and Brenda have everything going for them - great jobs, a beautiful apartment in Manhattan, and enough red-hot passion to make the snow melt. But can their marriage survive a pandemic?
The Black Eye
By Jim Dalglish
Directed by Jim Dalglish
Starring: Joe MacDougall and Tommy Walsh
When an aging gay man asks a street-wise kid if he needs a lift home, is he prepared to go where the dangerous young man is about to take him?
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Joe MacDougall (Actor)
Joe MacDougall is a New York and Cape Cod based actor who last appeared in the IDGTF in 2008 as a crazed Tom Cruise fan. Since then Joe has been in numerous plays and films in New York and Cape Cod including The Normal Heart, The Maids, Accidentally Like A Martyr, The Lonely Planet, Salome, Take Me Out, The Elephant Man, The Lion In Winter, Caesar and Cleopatra, Small Craft Warning and others. Films and television include The Ninth Step, Dear Melissa, Dive Shop, Cocktail Hour, Discovery ID Pandora’s Box. Joe is incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be working again! It’s been a long two years!!Tommy Walsh (Actor)
Tommy Walsh is a young Cape Cod, Massachusetts based actor. He is incredibly humbled to be participating in the IDGTF for the first time. Tommy studied acting at Boston University, where he received a BFA. Tommy also appeared in Provincetown Theater’s Love! Valor! Compassion!, Amadeus, and HBO's The Plot Against America. He would like to thank his loving family for always supporting his ventures into the arts.Vanessa Rose (actor)
Vanessa Rose is thrilled to be in Dublin to showcase some of these new works in the festival. A Cape Cod native, she was most recently seen on stage last summer in Bekah Brunstetter's "The Cake" at The Provincetown Theater. Previous to that she has a blast portraying Karen Weston in the theater’s 2019 production "August: Osage County". She is a graduate of The New School University, and some favorite NY credits include: Brecht's "The Judith of Shimoda" (La MaMa), Fornés' "Fefu and Her Friends" (The New School For Drama), Mee's "The Four Seasons" (The Angel Orensanz), and Throes Theater Company's "Mike" (HERE Arts Center). A Wellfleet native, she spends her time away from the theater working on her family’s fishing boats and caring for her chihuahua Zelda.Tia Scalcione (Actor)
Tia Scalcione is excited to be traveling to Dublin with this talented group of actors from Provincetown, Massachusetts! She has performed at the Provincetown Theater in various festivals and productions spanning the past 20 years. She made her singing debut this past fall in Alice, A New Musical at Cape Cod Theater Company. Tia works at the WHAT Theater in Wellfleet, Ma.Ellen Rubenstein (Actor)
Ellen Rubenstein works in development at Payomet Center for the Performing Arts. She has been stage manager / company manager for 4 trips to the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival with PDA and stage manager for many other productions, Provincetown Theater, and other theater festivals. She is the former company manager at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. -
Carol Meehan Sherry (Costume Designer / Producer)
Carol is a freelance costume and wig designer who has been based in New York City and Provincetown for what seems like eons. Her thirty-six-year career extends to Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, and international theater. She hopes to make it to Dublin for the 2022 festival and to further explore her Irish ancestry.Jim Dalglish (Playwright/Director)
Jim is the author of more than 30 plays – shorts, one acts and full lengths – and 2 films – a short and a feature length. Two of his plays – Superlubricated and Lines in the Sand – have appeared (and won awards) at The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. When he isn’t busy writing, directing, or producing plays and films, he and his husband Rob Phelps enjoy sailing their 17-foot O’Day Daysailer along the sheltered harbors of New England.Lynda Sturner (Playwright/Director)
Lynda is thrilled to be back at the IDGTF with her play “Look What You Made Me Do.” Other plays include “A Talented Woman,” “Super- Lubricated,” and “Art Brut” written with Jim Dalglish. “Almost Sisters,” and “The Death of Huey Newton,” published by Broadway Play Publishing. She is a member of the Actors Studio and The Woman’s Project, founder and artistic director of Playwright’s Forum in NYC, and past president of The League of Professional Theater Women. Acting credits include “Oliver” (original Broadway cast), “The Allergist's Wife”, and “The Perfect Ganesh.” Lynda won the 2016 IDGTF Best Actress Award for her role in “Super-Lubricated.”Doug Asher-Best (Playwright)
Doug is a retired letter carrier living in Truro with his husband Paul. He is a past member of the Playwright's Lab at the Provincetown Theater and contributed short and full-length plays for festivals and readings.Margaret Van Sant (Artistic Director / Producer / Director / Playwright)
Margaret Van Sant is a playwright, theater director, festival organizer, educator, and the Artistic Director of Provincetown Dramatic Arts. She has directed classic and contemporary theater, with a focus on the development of new scripts. She worked as the Literary Associate at Long Wharf Theater. She directed Jim Dalglish and Lynda Sturner’s “Super-Lubricated” at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Van Sant organized the Centennial Celebration of The Provincetown Players, “Then and Now,” for the Provincetown Theater and directed “Venus in Fur” by David Ives and Charles Busch’s “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife” there. Van Sant directed “The Ballad of the Sad Café” at the Arena Stage Edward Albee Festival. Most recently she directed Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” at the Wharf House. Margaret produces the Women’s International Theater Festival every fall in Provincetown. She is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College.
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Help Us Get to Dublin…
Provincetown Dramatic Arts needs your help to take these four wonderful short plays to the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Our plays will be running in the festival from May 9 - 14, 2022.
Your contribution (of any amount) will help fund the following:
Roundtrip airfare from Provincetown and Boston to Dublin for the company.
The cost of a furnished flat (with kitchen and laundry!) in Dublin for them to stay. And presumably cook and do laundry.
Postcards, posters and playbills.
A per diem so the actors don't have to go out busking in the street! (Though they can if they want to).
Basic groceries to save money on dinner out.
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