27 April - 13 May 2012 • Pontine Premieres CAP’N SIMEON’S STORE & OTHER STORIES
Fridays @8pm / Saturdays @4pm & @8pm / Sundays @2pm. Additional 8pm performance on Saturday 28 April.
Tickets $24. Purchase online - www.pontine.org
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West End Studio Theatre • 959 Islington St • Portsmouth NH
Drawing on the ‘local color’ tales of writer, paintr, carver and boat builder, George Savary Wasson, Pontine Theatre brings the salt-crusted denizens of Killick Cove to the stage. Wasson’s stories, published as Cap’n Simerion’s Store, Home From Sea, and The Green Shay, are based upon his neighbors and acquainances in Kittery Point, Maine, circa 1900. These stories of the elder generation of deep-sea fishermen are told in their own dialect; sitting around the hospitable fire of Cap’n Simeon’s Store, they spin their yarns of shipwrecks and storms, ghosts and witchcraft, the insufferable summer “rusticators,” and life and death on the great deep.
