Hovey Players kicks off their 2017-2018 season with Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation

For 6 weeks in a spare room at a Vermont community center, 5 very different people come together for an adult creative drama class: Marty, co-director of the community center and leader of the class; Theresa, an actress fleeing from heartbreak in the big city; James, an ex-hippie now teaching economics at a community college; Schultz, a carpenter finally ready to get on with life after his divorce; and Lauren, a sulky teenager with dreams of stardom.

In the process of exploring theatre games and improvisations together, they will all find their lives transformed forever – and in the process will learn far more about themselves than they ever will about acting.

Hovey Players a longtime theater staple in Waltham which produces high quality black box style contemporary and well-known plays for the Waltham community and surrounding area, is opening their newest season with this award-winning show from Massachusetts native and playwright Annie Baker.

The play premiered in New York at Playwrights Horizons, won the 2010 Obie Award for Best New American Play and was voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The New York Times, Time Out New York, and The New Yorker. It was named one of the best plays of 2009-2010 in the latest edition of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook. Of the New York premiere, the Times called it an “absorbing, unblinking and sharply funny play”, and said that “Annie Baker’s play is an absolute feast."

Cast: Danielle Wehner (Lauren), Shari Caplan (Theresa), Eric Lamarche (James), Lee Pallotta (Schulz), and Demetra Tseckares (Marty).

David Bass (director); Shannon Gmyrek & Michelle Aguillon (producers).

Circle Mirror Transformation will run from September 8-23.

Performance Dates:

September 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, and 23 at 8pm, and September 10 & 17 at 2pm.

Tickets

$19 ($17 for Students/Seniors)

Purchase tickets online at www.hoveyplayers.com

For reservations email reservations@hoveyplayers.com

Hovey Players

9 Spring Street

Waltham, Mass 02451