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PORTSMOUTH â On Thurs., May 20 at 7:00 p.m., Seacoast Mental Health Center and New Hampshire Theatre Project will present a reading of the play âA Wider Circleâ by Mary Ellen Hedrick, and a community discussion on the topic of The Opioid Crisis Effect on Families. The zoom webinar is free but registration is required. This program is part of the New Hampshire Theatre Projectâs Elephant-in-the-Room Series®. Partial funding for this presentation has been provided by an Arts in Healthcare Grant from the NH State Council on the Arts.
Immediately following the reading of âA Wider Circleâ, facilitator Tim Barretto will lead a community discussion with the audience and panelists Rebecca Throop of Seacoast Mental Health Center, playwright Mary Ellen Hedrick and a panel of experts. Community participants can sign up to attend the webinar and participate in the discussion for free through the NHTP website (ntheatreproject.org).
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April 30, 2021
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Featuring A Wider Circle by Mary Ellen Hedrick
Thursday, May 20, 7-9 p.m.
On Thursday, May 20 at 7 p.m., Seacoast Mental Health Center and New Hampshire Theatre Project will present a reading of the play A Wider Circle by Mary Ellen Hedrick, and a community discussion on the topic of The Opioid Crisis Effect on Families. The Zoom webinar is free but registration is required. This program is part of New Hampshire Theatre Project s Elephant-in-the-Room Series®. Partial funding for this presentation has been provided by an Arts in Healthcare Grant from the NH State Council on the Arts.
Gossip: Creating a place for the arts to collaborate
Jeanné McCartin
Some major moves have taken place at the New Hampshire Theatre Project the past few weeks.
The big news is the departure of Artistic Director Catherine Stewart. A lot of people automatically assumed Catherine was going to be my successor when she took the artistic director s job. But from the start it was our understanding, clear to us but not to the outside, she came on to do a number of things to prepare for succession, Founding Executive Director Genevieve Aichele says. Stewart did that in spades.
Stewart helped create a strategic plan, reorganized the main stage season ( which was going great guns til COVID ), restructured the company s artists program, created a company handbook, rebranded NHTP and was instrumental in keeping it going during the pandemic.
Peter Josephson’s A Tempest Prayer concludes SoloStage season
Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH New Hampshire Theatre Project’s new play development program, SoloStage concludes March 19 through 21. Peter Josephson’s A Tempest Prayer is an adaptation of Shakespeare s The Tempest, restaged for audiences that experienced the multitude of social and political pressures of the last year. A Tempest Prayer runs for online and limited in-person audiences and is made possible through generous sponsorship from JCM Management, Hub Entertainment Research, and Piscataqua Savings Bank.
Themes from the original text which depict the wielding of power and attempts at forgiveness will be in conversation with the events of 2020 as Josephson examines what it means to be a white male in America today. To escape confinement on his island, Prospero must forgive the brother who betrayed him, free the ones he used as slaves, and acknowledge his own darkness and weakness. Told through text, m
New Hampshire Theatre Project Presents WE DON T KNOW WHAT THIS IS YET
We Don t Know What This Is Yet captures the highs, the lows, and the uncertainty of 2020.by BWW News Desk
In March of 2020 New Hampshire Theatre Project Company Artists Catherine Stewart, CJ Lewis, and Genevieve Aichele began capturing the experiences of New Hampshire residents, and in particular the artists connected to the applied theatre company.
In March 2021 as part of that project, the creative team will release elements of that documentary work through a new podcast. The We Don t Know What This Is Yet Podcast is hosted by Company Artist Robin Fowler and is produced by CJ Lewis. The first episode will drop on March 13 and will be available for free on Spotify most podcast streaming services. For more details visit the On Stage Now section of NHTP s website, nhtheatreproject.org.