West Orange HS Students Will Take On 'Almost, Maine'

From West Orange High School:

The West Orange High School Drama Department will debut its fall play “Almost, Maine” on Thursday, Oct. 27 in the auditorium at West Orange High School, 51 Conforti Ave., beginning at 7:00 pm. Subsequent performances will be Oct. 28 and 29 at 7:00 pm, with a special free performance for West Orange Senior Citizens on Weds. Oct. 27, also at 7:00 pm.

The play is comprised of a prologue, interlogue and epilogue and eight short vignettes that feature two characters each and explore love and loss in the mythical town of Almost, Maine. The vignettes are Her Heart, Sad and Glad, This Hurts, Getting It Back, They Fell, Where It Went, Story of Hope, and Seeing the Thing.

“Almost, Maine” premiered in 2004 at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine where it broke local box office records and earned critical acclaim. It debuted Off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theatre in January, 2016 at was featured in Smith and Kraus’ “New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2006.”

The New York Times reviewed a production at TheatreWorks in Hartford in 2013, noting, "John Cariani’s Almost, Maine is a series of nine amiably absurdist vignettes about love, with a touch of good-natured magic realism...This is a beautifully structured play, with nifty surprise endings (most but not all of them happy) and passing references to characters from other vignettes, which slyly tell us more about them. Cariani describes the play’s subject as ‘falling in and out of love.’ It is just as much about pain.”

Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors (not including the Oct. 26 free performance.) Tickets may be purchased in advance, or call 973-669-5301 x 31450. Email wohstheater@woboe.org for more information. Tickets may also be purchased at the door.

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