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Show Times: Friday & Saturday nights @ 8 pm, Sunday afternoons @ 3 pm | |||||||||||||||||||
May 14-16, 21-23By Oscar Wilde. This is a funny and masterful send up of Victorian manners, especially in regards to marriage and morality. | |||||||||||||||||||
The Director... | |||||||||||||||||||
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GERALD FINLEY (Director) has been a member of Dover’s Garrison Players for many years and has performed in (most recently The Miracle Worker and Our Town) or directed (Muscial Comedy Murders of 1940, No Sooner Won Than Wed) or worked backstage on many of our productions. He has also performed at UNH, Hackmatack Playhouse, and the former Dover Repertory Theatre and Theatre-by-the-Sea in Portsmouth. Favorite roles include Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road and the King in Once Upon a Mattress. When not on stage, Jerry is a doting grandfather and an avid gardener. | |||||||||||||||||||
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PHIL ADAMS (Lane) is appearing in his eighth Garrison Players production, most recently as Sergeant “Froggy” LeSueur in The Foreigner. He has also performed at Prescott Park and The Seacoast Repertory Theatre. | |||||||||||||||||||
RICH SALVATI (Merriman) has been involved with Garrison Players in various capacities and with variable vigor over the past decade, from building maintenance to set building to stage managing to board membering and last but not least, play acting. He is unspeakably pleased to be in this formidable cast of thespians under the direction of the inimitable Mr. Jerry Finley. Mr. Salvati wishes to beg the forgiveness of his youngest daughter who doesn't want him at the theatre unless she can come too. | |||||||||||||||||||
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CHRISTOPHER M. GEMPP (John Worthing), an elementary music teacher by day, is excited to be back on the stage after taking a short hiatus to complete his master’s in education. He is pleased to be back in this theater, having previously played both Jacob Marley in Dramedy Productions’ A Christmas Carol and Eddie in GP’s Musical Comedy Murders of 1940. Other previous shows include Jeffery (Dramedy Productions); South Pacific (Leddy Center); Love & Laughter (Ann White Northwood Theater Workshop); Sweeny Todd (Worchester County Light Opera Company); Urinetown (Keene State College); Jeffery (Epic Theater Company); Cabaret, Kiss Me Kate, Crazy for You, and West Side Story (Bristol Theatre Company. He earnestly hopes you enjoy the show! | ||||
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CHAZ PICARDY (Algernon Moncrieff) was born in Rome, NY and attended high school in Dover. He renewed his interest in an acting career in his junior year, with a cameo role in The Importance of Being Earnest and played Wilson the Caretaker in Harvey in his senior year. He recently appeared as James in GP's production of The Miracle Worker and is happy to be back at Garrison Players. Chaz is currently employed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where he works at their local commissary as a contractor. He loves music, animals, video games, and, of course, theater. | ||||
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GREG BELL (Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.) has appeared on stages from Maine to Maui. Some past GP shows include 1776, The Pirates of Penzance and The Madwoman of Chaillot. Thanks to his wife Kathy, son Gabriel and dog Cookie for putting up with him | ||||
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D.B. COOPER (Miss Prism) was co-producer and director at Hackmatack Playhouse and Hackmatack at Cocheco Falls between 1985 and 1994. She last had the privilege of working with Jerry and Tinka Finley in the 2005 production of Lettice and Lovage at the Rochester Opera House. In life as we know it, Deirdre is a staff announcer for WBZ Radio, the telephone voice of NH Public Service, and a narrator for awards programs, design presentations for civil engineering companies, and animated tutorials for science textbooks. She works as a casting and dialog consultant for video games, as well as a voice actor— you may have heard her in Nintendo DS game Treasure World or Bioshock 2. Deirdre is also a drummer for the cabaret and mystery shows at the Governor's Inn in Rochester. | ||||
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TINKA DARLING (Lady Bracknell) has acted (Nunsense, Two By Two, ‘night, Mother), and directed (Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, Pirates of Penzance) as a long-time member of Dover’s Garrison Players. She spent 19 summers on stage at Hackmatack Playhouse in Berwick, has also performed at Dover Repertory Theatre, Act One, Arts Rochester, and Cortland (NY) Repertory, and can sometimes be heard on radio commercials. Some of her favorite roles include the psychiatrist in Agnes of God, Kate in Broadway Bound and Katisha in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado. Offstage Tinka runs the computer lab at Horne St. Elementary School in Dover. | ||||
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EMILY BRIAND (Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax) has been a member of Garrison Players for 22 years and has appeared in the GP productions of Our Town, A Voice of My Own, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Vaudeville and Oklahoma. She has appeared in several web series including Odd Noggin Land, Gravity Land, Round the Square and How to Survive the Strange; and in the NH 48 hour film festival The Way They Were Inside. Her favorite roles include any opportunity that allows her to work with her dad, Don Briand. Emily holds a Bachelors degree in Social Work from the University of New Hampshire and is a passionate social justice advocate for children and women. | ||||
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KATIE MACEACHERN (Cecily Cardew) has been acting for a while. She loves theatre and has been in a production of Arabian Nights, The Secret Garden, Beauty and the Beast, Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know, and, most recently, in Garrison Players' The Miracle Worker. | ||||
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DEWITT HARDY, Scenic designer has had 16 one-person shows in New York and is represented in approximately 35 museums including the British Museum, the San Francisco Museums, the Smithsonian, and the Library of Congress. His scenic art has been seen at Prescott Park, Portsmouth, NH; Nasson College, Springvale, Maine; Hackmatack Playhouse in Berwick, Maine and the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine. He is in Who’s Who in American Art. He has shown in The Face of America (Contemporary Portraits in Watercolor) at Old Forge, New York, and Forty Years of Maine Art at Maine Coast Artists. He is featured in American Realism (20th Century Drawings and Watercolors) published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work may be seen at the Mast Cove Gallery in Kennebunkport, Maine, and at the Ogunquit Art Association in Ogunquit, Maine. | ||
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