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Quilters | ||||||||||
by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek Music & Lyrics by Barbara Damashek
based on "The Quilters" Women and Domestic Art" by Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Allen. | ||||||||||
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Other Programming at the Arts Center...Past GP Seasons....2009-2010 2008-2009 2007-2008
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May 5-7, 12-14, 19-21, 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||
The Cast.... | |||||||||||||||||||
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Autumn Allen is excited to be back onstage with GP! 2005 GP credits include Crystal in Little Shop of Horrors (nominated Best Supporting Actress Ensemble at NH Theatre Awards) and Mary Smith in Run For Your Wife (nominated Best Supporting Actress for the Spotlight Awards). When not onstage, Autumn teaches drama for young students at the Bell Center and volunteering with the HUB Family Resource Center. A huge hug to her husband, Mike and their children, Aidan and Genevieve! And thank you to the audience for supporting the Garrison Players and the arts in your area! Enjoy the show. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Danica Carlson is pleased to be back at the Arts Center after last being seen as Ganglia in No Sooner Won Than Wed. She has performed in theatres around the seacoase, including SRT, Players Ring, Prescott Park, and the Bell Center. Upcoming shows include SRT’s Forum as a Gemini Twin, and Rock Horror and the Bell Center’s Once Upon A Mattress as Larkin. Much thanks and love to RJ, DL, and my Tech House Family! Forever and always. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Cary Davis is very excited to be a part of Quilters. Past roles include Sally in Cabaret, Cinderella in Into the Woods, Rachel in Two by Two, Hope in Anything Goes, Lady Larkin in Once Upon a Mattress, and most recently, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof. She would like to thank her family, and all the wonderful people involved in Quilters for their love and support. Enjoy the show! | |||||||||||||||||||
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Tinka Finley (Sarah) has acted in Fiddler on the Roof, Painting Churches, ‘night, Mother, and directed Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, Pirates of Penzance, as a long-time GP member. She spent 19 summers on stage at Hackmatack Playhouse in Berwick and has also performed at the former Dover Repertory Theatre and Gamaliel Theatre in Durham. Some of her favorite roles include the psychiatrist in Agnes of God, Katisha in The Mikado, and Lotte Schoen in last summer’s Lettice and Lovage at the Rochester Opera House. Offstage Tinka runs the computer lab at Horne St. Elementary School in Dover. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Carolyn Harriman is thrilled to return to the stage after producing GP’s Laura. A native of Dover, she credits Westwood for creating the spark, and the Spaulding High School Music Dept as well as the UMass Minuteman Marching Band and Delta-Delta chapter of Tau Beta Sigma for fueling her love for music and theater. While not working for Hannaford Bros, she is an active participant of the music, youth and mission programs at First Parish Church and is a member and Vice-President of the Seacoast Wind Ensemble. Her other GP credits include No Sooner Won than Wed and Pirates of Penzance. She sends a BIG "Thank You!" to her husband, Dan, who, without complaint, puts up with her crazy schedule. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Meredith Lamothe is thrilled to be making her debut GP performance in Quilters with all these wonderful ladies. Favorite roles include Sandy in Grease, Rapunzel in Into the Woods, and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. She was also in Les Miserables at Seacoast Rep, and Ogunquit Playhouse. Thank you to Mom, Dad (nice set!), Scott, Leslie, and Jeffrey. Also Alexis and Kathy for this opportunity! | |||||||||||||||||||
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Carol Seely recently played Zinnia Zweiback in GP's No Sooner Won Than Wed. She also produced GP's Little Shop of Horrors, performed in the Bell Center's Man of La Mancha and Prescott Park's Into the Woods. As an actor, director and musical director, she has worked with the Firehouse Theater in Newburyport, Hackmatack Theater, Seacoast Rep, Rochester Opera House and Act One. Her favorite roles have been Arlene in Baby and Clairee in Steel Magnolias. Recently retired from teaching in the Dover Schools, she lives in North Hampton with husband, Scott, a veterinarian and directs the Handbell Choir at First Parish Church in Dover and the Riverwoods Retirement Community Chorus in Exeter. | ||||
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The authors would like gratefully to acknowledge the inspiration derived from the original quilt design “The Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Sue” as designed and executed by the Seamsters Union Local No 500 of Lawrence, KS, and the inspiration provided by Grace Snyder and Nellie Snyder Yost in their book No Time on My Hands. The authors would also like gratefully to acknowledge the following texts and individuals as invaluable resources in the development of the play: New Discoveries in American Quilts by Robert Bishop; American Quilts and Coverlets by Robert Bishop and Carleton L. Stafford; Marguerite Ickis; Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Steward; Our Homes and Their Adornments by Almon C. Varney; American Folk Poetry - An Anthology by Duncan Emrich; Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel; Aunt Jane of Kentucky by Eliza Calvert Hall; Pioneer Women - Voices from the Kansas Frontier by Joanna L. Stratton; “The Prairie Home Companion”, Garrison Keilor, Minnesota Public Radio; A Little Better Than Plumb by Henry and Janice Hold Giles; A Harvest Yet to Reap - A History of Prairie Women by Linda Rasmussen, Lorna Rasmussen, Candace Savage, and Anne Wheeler; and Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy. | ||
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