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Word Plays: Stories About Feelings
Our Fourth Season in The Fenimore Gallery: 2010-2011
Sundays at 2:00 pm $16 Free Parking
Save these dates: 9/26, 10/31, 1/23, 2/27, 3/27, 4/17
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If you're one of those people who lingers in your car long after reaching a destination just to hear the end of Garrison Keillor's "The News from Lake Wobegon" or Ira Glass on "This American Life," then Word Plays may be for you.
At Word Plays, superb performers tell rarely heard contemporary and traditional stories
about being human. You will discover that Word Plays is a shared experience between the audience and the performer, combining the intensity of a one-person play with the intimacy of a one-on-one conversation.
Each show has its own theme where each story told relates to that theme.
Enjoy the arts in The Fenimore Gallery as the exhibitions and the stories change over the course of the year.
Wine, beer and soda are available at the cash bar before the show starts and during intermission. After the show, you can meet the performers. The Gallery is on the second floor above the Box Office, accessible by stairs or elevator.
Our Third Season: September 2009 - April 2010
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Not-in-Kansas
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Oct. 18
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Betty Cassidy
and Margaret French
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Sometimes thoughtful, more often hilarious stories about our sense of place. About wandering and discombobulation. About leaving home. About feeling like a foreigner. About longing for home, often to discover that we found it long ago.
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Oh Sh*t
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Jan. 17
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Claire Nolan
and Frank Wind
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These stories are so unusual or unbelievable that they must be shared. Things like this have happened to us; they’ve probably happened to you, too! Your only response to these personal stories and folktales will be, "Oh Sh*t!"
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Hunger
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Feb. 21
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Mary Murphy
and Nancy Marie Payne
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Anyone who has ever wanted something, really wanted it, knows that hunger doesn't only pertain to food. This afternoon, our tellers will explore the humor, longings and driving desire behind hunger.
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Shenanigans
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Mar. 14
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Janet Carter
and Marni Gillard
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Our shenanigans may tickle your funny bone or dampen your eyes. You’ll travel to the Emerald Isle and beyond, but you don’t have to be Irish to find yourself in these tales.
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Bumps in the Road
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Apr. 18
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Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi
and Karen Pillsworth
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Lessons we've learned along the way. Some of life's most interesting lessons are discovered by accident. Come hear stories of mothers and daughters, sons and husbands, and a plethora of cousins who have helped shape their lives. You are in for an afternoon of humorous and heart-warming tales.
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Be among the first to enjoy the stories and the Proctors experience.
Shows start at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $16 per person per show. To purchase tickets, go to Proctor's web site, or visit the Box Office at Proctors, or call them at (518) 346-6204.
Proctors now has free parking in the Metroplex Parking Garage, 220 Broadway, near the bakery Villa Italia. Then just walk across the street and enter the Proctors Arcade via the rear entrance. Don't worry about any snow or ice as you enter the Arcade -- the sidewalk automatically melts precipitation.
Word Plays was inspired by
2nd Story, produced by Serendipity Theatre in Chicago.
Our first season's shows and
our second season's shows are listed here.
Story Circle is one of the first resident storytelling companies
at a US performing arts center
Proctors, 432 State Street, Schenectady, New York
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