Reader's Theatre Weekend at The Phoenix Stage Company

These should be three great productions; just look at the cast members! Tickets are $15 each but if you want to see two out of three it is $25 or all three for $30. A real bargain for some great theatre!

IF THE SHOE FITS by Matt Thompson, Matt Chiorini and Dana Vermette

Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 at 8 p.m.

Featuring Ed Bassett, Chris Evans, Shelley Lloyd & Sharon A. Wilcox

Directed by Val Vitalo

It all started when Delores, an unhappy housewife, and George, a shoe salesman, met at Shoe Fantasy and it was love at first shoe-fitting. The only thing standing in the way was Delores' doting but half-witted husband, Marvin, who would never agree to a divorce. So there was only one thing left to do — kill Marvin so they can run off together and live a carefree life of passion and romance in a tropical paradise. The lovers come up with a crazy plan to poison Marvin over dinner. Delores invites George to dinner and introduces him to Marvin as a new friend. While Marvin checks on dessert, they slip poison into his wine. But things get out of hand when Marvin doesn't fall for the bait. What was supposed to be a simple foolproof murder turns into a hilarious fiasco — resulting in this wacky tale of love, murder, and… shoes!

************************

LOVE LETTERS by A. R. Gurney

Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012 at 8 p.m.

Featuring Kevin DelGobbo & Marilyn Olsen

Directed by Agnes M. Dann

A unique and imaginative theatre piece which, in the words of the author, "needs no theatre, no lengthy rehearsal, no special set, no memorization of lines, and no commitment from its two actors beyond the night of performance." The piece is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who
grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences.

*********************************

KIMBERLY AKIMBO by David Lindsay-Abaire

Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 at 2 p.m.

Featuring Gina Flemming, John Ozerhoski, Paula Roll, Rebecca Russo & Alec Varcas

Directed by Meredith Roll

Set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, KIMBERLY AKIMBO is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love.