What could be better than sitting around the table exchanging tall tales with friends after enjoying a good old home-style meal? Sitting around the Swamp Meadow Table after enjoying a meal, you did not have to cook or clean up, watching the Tales of Mark Twain come to life right before your eyes!

Swamp Meadow Community Theatre invites you to a charming Dinner Theatre brought to you from the front porch of the Hannibal Country Store. Twain’s Tales, written by David Taylor London, directed by Dennis Chretien and Bob Hollis, introduces you to Hannibal’s Finest as they reacquaint you with some of Samuel Clemens’ favorite stories. Enjoying the play, after a meal of Midwestern Comfort Food, you will find yourself filled with flavor, laughter, and contentment!

SMCT is making all this available to you on three days and at two locations: February 11 at 6:30pm and February 12 at 1:30pm at the Coventry Senior Center on Wood Street in Coventry and on March 3 at 6:30pm at the South Foster Fire Station on Mt Hygeia Road in Foster. Tickets are $30 for Adults and $20 for children under 10.

Paid reservations must be made by February 4th for the Coventry dates and February 25th for the Foster date. To make reservations or for more information, please call 1-888-493-7110.

The cast includes Gary Pickard, Meryn Flynn, Chris Morelli, Brian Cerullo, Bart Hollingsworth, Kaila Rubin, AnaCapri Mauro, Michelle Chretien, Emily Chretien, and Jill Cerullo.

Admission is $15/adults, $10/students & seniors, $50/family max. Come on out for a great night of entertainment and fun with lots of local talent. There will be plenty of music, comedy and more! The Foster Country Club will be open for food and drinks so enjoy yourself while supporting Swamp Meadow Community Theatre.

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Please bring any music you will be using and anything else you might need. For more info, please call 1-888-493-7110.

Performances are scheduled for December 8, 9, 10, 11.
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Shakespeare’s classic tale of romance gone tragically wrong has been given a thorough but respectful adaptation for this production, rendering the Bard’s philosophical musings, witty repartee, passionate poetry and bawdy humor fresh and accessible for a modern audience.

Performances are scheduled for November 11, 12, 13 and 18, 19, 20.
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Halloween Dance Party
Foster Country Club
Friday, October 21, 2011
7:30 – 11:00 pm
$10

Featuring:

• Costume Contest & Prizes
• Dance Music by DJ Melodie Fontenault
• “Scary-Okie” Song Set
• 50/50 Raffle

Appropriate for ages 11+

Artie & Sandy would like thank all who came out and auditioned. We have a cast of thirty talented actors that will be joining Geoffrey Chaucer and his Tourist’s on a wild ride to Canterbury Tales

  Our cast list will be posted soon. We’re still in need of Costume People, a Props Person, Back Stage Assistants, a Sound Team & Assistants, Make-Up team with a Face Painting Person and all the million and one hands it takes to make this wild play come to life. If you would like to help out and share your talents contact our producer Lona at www.miladylona@aol.com.  Many hands always make the task easier and all of us would be very gratefull for your time.   

The Play is a modernized, hilarious, wacked-out twist on The Canterbury Tales, featuring characters such as Alex of Trebek, King Leno, the Wrong Pilgrims, along with a list of many more zany characters.

Performance dates are April 27, 28, 29 and May 4, 5, 6 

Captain Isaac Paine School Auditorium.

Mr. Toad’s Mad Adventures is currently under production.  The show is adapted from the classic children’s book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and focuses on Mr. Toad’s impetuous and perilous romance with the automobile.  We have many talented young actors and actresses returning from past summers as well as quite a few newcomers, whom we welcome to the Swamp Meadow family!

Performances will be:

• August 17th @ 7pm
• August 18th @ 7pm
• August 19th @ 7pm
• August 20th @ 2pm
• August 20th @ 7pm
• August 21st @ 2pm

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• August 1, Romeo & Juliet only – 6:30-9 pm. Note updated time!
• August 3, Remaining Cast – 6:30-9 pm. Note updated time!

No prepared monologues are required. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.

Foster Town House
181 Howard Hill Rd, Foster RI.

Performance dates are tentatively set Nov. 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, and 21.

• Chorus – (any age, either gender) The Chorus is a personable, bright, engaging narrator who helps guide the audience through the play with helpful background information, humor and editorial comments in modern speech.
• Vendors (3) – (any age, either gender) Street vendors unwillingly caught up in the Montague/Capulet feud.
• Gregory — (15-50, male) Servant of the Capulet clan, a decent guy, not especially bright, but good with his fists and knife. He tends to let Sampson do his thinking for him, with unfortunate results. Involves a little dancing and fighting.
• Sampson – (15-50, male) Chief Capulet servant, a braggart and instigator who counts on Gregory’s muscle to get him out of the troubles he brings on himself. Involves a little dancing and fighting.
• Abram – (15-50, male) Member of the house of Montague, easily angered. Involves a little dancing and fighting.
• Balthasar – (15-30, male) Servant of the house of Montague who shares Romeo’s exile to Mantua. Involves a little dancing and fighting.
• Benvolio – (15-20, male) Romeo’s cousin and companion. He is generally peaceable and well-meaning, which doesn’t always save him from trouble. Involves sword fighting.
• Tybalt – (20-30, male) Juliet’s cousin and a renowned sword-fighter with a very short temper and deep hatred for all things and persons Montague. Involves sword fighting.
• Capulet – (60+, male) The patriarch of the Capulet clan. His powers are beginning to fade, but he is an old warhorse and can still be terrifying when angered. Juliet is his last surviving child. Involves some dancing and strong emotions.
• Lady Capulet – (30-50, female) Capulet’s considerably younger current wife. Juliet is her daughter and only child. She struggles with the duel responsibilities of curbing Juliet’s youthful willfulness and her husband’s sometimes erratic and explosive behavior. Involves some dancing and subtle characterization.
• Montague – (40+, male) Leader of the house of Montague and Romeo’s father. Impatient and not the best “people person”, he is baffled by his romantic, moody son.
• Lady Montague – (30-50, female) Montague’s wife, she is somewhat more sympathetic to her son’s impulsive emotionality than is her husband.
• Prince(ss) Escalus – (40+, either gender) Ruler of Verona and father (mother?) to Paris. The Prince is very frustrated with the vendetta between the Capulets and Montagues and takes extreme measures to try to end it, measures which ultimately get not only Romeo and Juliet, but also his own son Paris, killed.
• Romeo – (15-20, male) A passionate, impulsive young man with great talents and charisma, but poor judgment. Our romantic hero. Involves sword fighting, kissing and the ability to openly express great passion and emotion.
• County Paris – (18-25, male) Son of Prince(ss) Escalus, and a Count in his own right, he courts Juliet after gaining her father’s permission. He is a good match and a good chap, but a bit conventional and straight-arrow for the strong-minded, fiery Juliet.
• Anthony/Antonia – (any age, either gender) A servant of the Capulets; a bit of a wise guy/gal.
• Nurse – (40+, female) Juliet’s former wet-nurse, now her personal servant. She is common and crass, but loves Juliet and knows her better than anyone. Even so, she ultimately fails to understand her well enough to guide her wisely through her tragic dilemma. Some raunchy lines and actions.
• Juliet – (16, female) The female half of the doomed couple, Juliet emerges as a strong-willed, clear-eyed tragic heroine with a fiery spirit. She has lived a very protected life, but when the time (and Romeo) comes, she breaks out completely beyond anyone’s ability to control or save. Involves kissing, strong passions, emotional intimacy, dancing.
• Mercutio – (20-30, male) Romeo’s friend and mentor, and something of a surrogate big brother. He has a wit and cleverness to match Romeo, but also a hot temper, which helps to feed some of his friend’s impetuousness. Involves swordfighting.
• Potpan – (15-50, either gender) Capulet servant, good humored, sidekick to Anthony.
• Friar Laurence – (30+, male) A priest, Romeo’s confessor and confidant. He has a good rapport with the young lovers, but ultimately abandons his role as advisor and counselor in favor of fully supporting and enabling Romeo’s reckless passion, contributing significantly to its tragic result. Willingness to rap a little a big plus.
• Peter – (Any age, male) The Nurse’s servant, he is a raunchy match for his mistress.
• Friar John – (20+, male) Another priest, used as a messenger to Romeo during his exile in Mantua.
• Apothecary – (Any age, either gender) Driven by poverty, sells Romeo the poison with which he ultimately kills himself.
• Paris’s Page – (15-30, male) Witness to Romeo and Paris’s duel.
• Assorted Citizens, Gentlemen, Gentlewomen, Maskers, Torchbearers, Pages, Guards, Servants and Attendants