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The Barn Alternative Series

The Barn Alternative Series are Barn Players productions of edgier, more out-of-the-mainstream (for community theatre) plays. Here, chances are taken, risks are explored, artistic freedom is opened up just a bit more. Typically, the stories told in this series will be more modern, and likely will not be shows that are widely known and/or performed to death. We like this. No, we love this. This gives us a chance to bring to bear our most original thinking and original work, and present it to you, as entertainment, as a challenge, maybe even as a wake-up call. Who knows. Freedom is a wonderful thing.

Previous productions in this series have included, "Orphans," "A Number," "The Shape Of Things," "Proof," and "The Long Christmas Ride Home."

Our offerings for 2008:

Closer
by Patrick Marber
Directed by Nathan Norcross
April 25-27, May 2-4, 2008
A Barn Alternative Series Production
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Winner of the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Play and the 1999 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. Four lives connect over four years in this look at modern love and betrayal. Chance meetings turn into relationships of growing complexity as these four characters seek intimacy but, for various reasons, can't seem to get...closer.

Cast

Christina Martin as Anna
Erin Jevons-Lee as Alice
Dave Martin as Dan
Greg Butell as Larry

Wonder Of The World
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Darren Sextro
August 8-10, 15-17, 2008
A Barn Alternative Series Production
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

A woman discovers a shocking secret about her husband which forces her to flee to Niagra Falls in this twisted and hilarious journey of discovery. As she tries to find herself, she finds herself surrounded by an alcoholic with designs on suicide, a boat captain looking for love, a pair of less-than-stellar private investigators and a mystery revolving around a giant jar of peanut butter, all working to send her over the edge...quite literally.

Cast

Gayle Grooms as Cass
Erik Finch as Kip
Shelly Stewart as Lois
Heather Austin as Multi-Tasker
Pam Haskin as Karla
David Belz as Glen
Bill Case as Captain Mike