(Nashua, NH) Artists Collective Theatre (ACT) continues its inaugural season with “Becky Shaw” a comedic look at love and family written by Gina Gionfriddo. The production will run for two weekends this April in ACT’s home space: the Hunt Memorial Building located at 6 Main Street in downtown Nashua. Performances are at 8pm on Thursday-Saturday April 3-5 and 10-12 with $20 adult tickets available for purchase at www.act-theatre.org.
The NY Times called Becky Shaw “Gina Gionfriddo’s comedy of bad manners, a tangled tale of love, sex and ethics among a quartet of men and women in their 30s, [that] is as engrossing as it is ferociously funny.” Ms. Gionfriddo, a writer and producer for Law & Order, received her M.F.A. in playwriting from Brown University and has received an Obie Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize which is given to women playwrights to recognize outstanding theatre.
ACT member Josiah George, of Quincy, MA, is directing a five person cast which includes Ben Dick of Manchester, NH in the role of Max who ACT audiences will remember from All New People ACT’s July show and Leah Belanger of Hillsborough, NH as Susanna, Max’s adoptive sister and director of ACT’s holiday show. After Susanna’s father dies and she impulsively marries a fellow grad student she met on a ski trip, Max agrees to go on a blind date with a woman named Becky Shaw which ends in them being mugged. The ramifications of that night go on to affect both Max and Susanna. The show is a scathing look at love, money, and how your mother influences it all.
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Artists Collective Theatre is a group of professional theatre artists who collaborate to bring thought provoking work to the stage. They are the theatre company in residence at the Hunt Memorial Building located at 6 Main Street in Nashua. Thursday, April 3rd is the pay-what-you-can preview performance at 8pm. Audiences are encouraged to attend for as little or as much as they’d like to contribute. Tickets can be purchased for the remaining performances on April 4, 5, 10, 11 & 12 at 8pm on ACT’s website: www.act-theatre.org.
