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Mariemont High School Production: “Almost, Maine”

Mariemont High School Production: Almost, Maine

Please come and enjoy an evening of theatre at Mariemont High School. This fall’s production is titled “Almost, Maine”. Nine short scenes confront the hazards we encounter in the pursuit of love. Every scene is about relationship, but every scene looks at a different aspect of relationship, driving home the point, “there are as many types of love, as people to love.”

The performances are Friday Nov 8 and Saturday Nov 9 at 7:30pm and Sunday Nov 10 at 2pm.

Please contact Delta Crabtree at 513-272-3372 to order your tickets or pick up a ticket order form at any Mariemont school office

 

DATE AND TIMES

Friday, November 8, 2013, 7:30PM

Saturday Nov 9 at 7:30PM

Sunday Nov 10 at 2PM

 

MORE ABOUT ALMOST,MAINE

Almost, Maine is a play by John Cariani, comprising nine short plays that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine. It premiered at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine in 2004 where it broke box office records and garnered critical acclaim.

Almost, Maine opened Off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theatre on January 12, 2006 and closed on February 12, 2006. Directed by Gabriel Barre, the cast included Todd Cerveris, Justin Hagan, Miriam Shor, and Finnerty Steeves.  Though its Off Broadway run was brief, the play is featured in Smith and Kraus’ New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2006 and has proved popular in professional and nonprofessional theatre companies worldwide. It is now the most produced play in North American high schools, recently supplanting Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The New York Times review of the play in 2006 was mixed: “A comedy comprising almost a dozen two-character vignettes exploring the sudden thunderclap of love and the scorched earth that sometimes follows, John Cariani’s play will evoke either awww’s or ick’s, depending on your affection for its whimsical approach to the joys and perils of romance.”

New York Times review of a production at TheatreWorks in Hartford in 2013 was positive: “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. Mr. Cariani, describes the play’s subject as ‘falling in and out of love.’ It is just as much about pain.”