Aglet Theatre Company

Aglet Theatre Company The Aglet Theatre Company’s mission is to provide the tristate area with quality theatrical experiences at affordable prices.

Aglet Theatre Company was founded in 2005 offering performances at Chaiwalla Tea house in Salisbury, Connecticut. A year and half later, after outgrowing the restaurant, Aglet was invited to work at the Bok Gallery at TriArts’ Sharon Playhouse, Sharon, Connecticut. 2009 saw an additional performing venue: the Unicorn Theatre at Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Currently Agle

t performs at Dewey Hall, Sheffield, Massachusetts, and The Moviehouse in Millerton, New York. Aglet specializes in staged readings of new and seldom-performed plays. Doors open a half-hour before curtain when patrons may enjoy complimentary refreshments; an insightful and lively discussion follows each performance. To be informed of our future events, presentations, programs and auditions, place your name on our e-mail list by going to our contact page or at our email address here [email protected].

03/21/2019

Hi everyone: There's a correction for the time of the matinee [half hour later]:

April 6, 2019
MARJORIE PRIME
by Jordan Harrison, Director: Macey Levin

Doors open:
Matinee 2pm; Performance 2:30pm
Evening 7pm; Performance 7:30pm

April 6, 2019MARJORIE PRIMEby Jordan Harrison, Director: Macey LevinDoors open: Matinee 2pm; Performance 2:30pmEvening 7...
03/11/2019

April 6, 2019

MARJORIE PRIME
by Jordan Harrison, Director: Macey Levin

Doors open:
Matinee 2pm; Performance 2:30pm
Evening 7pm; Performance 7:30pm

It’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie — a jumble of disparate, fading memories — has a handsome new companion who’s programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance? In this richly spare, wondrous new play, Jordan Harrison explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits — if any — of what technology can replace.

Jordan Harrison’s elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama… keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it...At some point, you realize that it’s been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts. —The New York Times

Jordan Harrison’s play…has all the hallmarks of the best science fiction; it’s clever in conceit, alive with humor, surprising in its turns, and terribly haunting by the time the lights go out.
—The New Yorker

02/10/2019

March 9, 2019

A WALK IN THE WOODS
by Lee Blessing; Director: Thomas Gruenewald

Doors open:
Matinee 1:30pm; Performance 2pm
Evening 7pm; Performance 7:30pm

The place is a “pleasant woods on the outskirts of Geneva,” where two superpower arms negotiators, a Russian and an American, meet informally after long, frustrating hours at the bargaining table. The Russian, Botvinnik, a seasoned veteran who has mastered the Soviet “hard line,” is urbane and humorous but, at the same time, profoundly cynical about what the current sessions can accomplish. His young American counterpart, Honeyman, a newcomer to the arms-control talks, is a bit stuffy and pedantic, but also fervently idealistic about what can—and must—be achieved through perseverance and honest bargaining.

It is a marvelous piece of theatre as well as a great treatise on the nature of mankind, and should take its place as a classic of dramatic literature. —Drama-Logue

…a work of passion and power with the ring of political truth. It is not only the best of the few dramas to reach Broadway this season, it is also the funniest comedy. —Time Magazine

…a minor miracle… —NY Magazine

…a splendid evening of theatre. —NY Daily News

11/06/2018

Be sure to save December 15th for the next Aglet production— Ghost Writer…
matinee or evening

December 15, 2018GHOST-WRITERby Michael Hollinger, Director: Macey LevinDoors open: Matinee 1:30pm; Performance 2pmEveni...
10/22/2018

December 15, 2018

GHOST-WRITER
by Michael Hollinger, Director: Macey Levin

Doors open:
Matinee 1:30pm; Performance 2pm
Evening 7pm; Performance 7:30pm

Novelist Franklin Woolsey dies mid-sentence, but his secretary Myra continues to take dictation. Attacked by skeptics, the press and Woolsey’s jealous widow, Myra sets out to prove she is more than just an artful forger. Is she trying to steal Woolsey’s legacy now that she cannot have his love, or might she truly possess a gift the world can’t understand?

An absorbing tale. Ghost-Writer works marvelously well--a finely wrought piece of entertainment that does just what it sets out to do.
—Wall Street Journal

Tantalizing, understated and lovely. This engrossing, old-fashioned play is about the drama of writing—and typing—and creativity and love… [An] extraordinary marriage between fiction and theater.
—Philadelphia Inquirer

October 20, 2018Edward Albee’s OCCUPANTby Edward Albee, director Thomas GruenewaldUnapologetically flamboyant, New York ...
10/05/2018

October 20, 2018

Edward Albee’s OCCUPANT
by Edward Albee, director Thomas Gruenewald

Unapologetically flamboyant, New York sculptor Louise Nevelson’s life was one marked by intrepid artistic triumphs as well as deep inner turmoil. In Edward Albee’s Occupant, both her public accomplishments and private emotional conflicts are thoroughly examined by an unnamed interviewer who questions the posthumous Nevelson with an unabashed scrutiny. From her unique vantage point beyond the grave, Nevelson answers his queries with a clarity born of the distance provided by death. The result is a touching, humorous, and honest tribute to a woman who was a pioneer for free-thinking females everywhere, but also stood strongly on her own as one of the 20th century’s greatest artistic minds. Edward Albee’s Occupant is a testament of will, internal strength, and the cryptic force that continues to drive great artists.

Occupant bows its head in awe and gratitude before the mysterious force of will that allows great artists to be...The play touches on themes that echo throughout Mr. Albee’s work: the unreliability of memory, the chimerical nature of language and particularly the “alchemical brew of truth and illusion” (to borrow a much-used pair of words from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) by which people define themselves. —The New York Times

[Go to Season Schedule for our Spring offerings.]

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Dewey Memorial Hall, 91 Main Street (west side of Route 7), Sheffield, MA

Doors open at 3:00pm* & 7pm for complimentary beverages and refreshments.
The reading begins at 3:30pm* & 7:30pm with a discussion to follow.
*Note: later matinee October 20 only

Tickets $30
Students, 18 and under, $20
Cash or check only
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For reservations call 860-435-NWCT (6928), or
write [email protected]

04/09/2018

Happy April! Even tho' the showers sometimes have flakes, spring has sprung. Our next show is April 28th.

Have you chosen whether you're coming to the matinée [doors open at 1:30pm] or the evening performance [doors open at 7pm] of OUR SHINING LIVES??

RSVP and put it in your calendar. We're looking forward to seeing you!

April 28, 2018THESE SHINING LIVESby Melanie Marnich, director Macey LevinA true story of survival based on four women wh...
03/19/2018

April 28, 2018
THESE SHINING LIVES
by Melanie Marnich, director Macey Levin

A true story of survival based on four women who worked in a watch factory in Ottawa, IL, painting glow-in-the-dark radium onto dial faces. It dramatizes the peril women faced in the 1920s workforce, and the lack of concern by businesses to protect the health of employees. The four refuse to allow the company that stole their health to destroy their spirits or imperil women who follow.

01/16/2018

AGLET THEATRE COMPANY • SPRING 2018 AUDITIONS
Dewey Memorial Hall, Sheffield, MA
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Monday, January 29 – 6:00

THREE VIEWINGS by Jeffrey Hatcher; Directed by Thomas Gruenewald

Time: the present
Place: a funeral parlor in a small mid-western town
These are dramatic monologues. Each character is a story-teller speaking directly to the audience in the present tense, with intimacy, humor, and candor.
The characters never interact. Therefore rehearsals can be scheduled at the convenience of each actor and the director.

• TELL-TALE: A monologue
EMIL: A middle-aged man. A mortician in love, whose passion overflows his buttoned-down persona.

• THE THIEF OF TEARS: A monologue
MAC: An attractive woman in her forties. A smart, funny woman who is trying to contain a horrible secret.

• THIRTEEN THINGS ABOUT ED CARPOLOTTI: A monologue
VIRGINIA: A well-dressed woman in her late 50s or 60s. Drive and energy are vital to the play

Matinee and evening performances March 17

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Tuesday, January 30 – 6:00

THESE SHINING LIVES by Melanie Marnich; Directed by Macey Levin
A story of survival. Based on the true incident of four women who worked in a watch factory in Ottawa, Illinois, the play dramatizes the peril women faced in the workforce in the 1920s, and the lack of concern by businesses for protecting the health of its employees. The four refuse to allow the company that stole their health to destroy their spirits or to imperil those who followed.

Catherine Donohue - late twenties - early thirties
Frances*, Charlotte*, Pearl* - late twenties- early thirties
Tom Donohue* - late twenties - early thirties
Mr. Reed* - can be older than the other characters

*play multiple roles

All characters age; women physically deteriorate

Matinee and evening performances April 28

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FOR AN APPOINTMENT:
860-435-6928 or [email protected]

There is a stipend
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March 17, 2018THREE VIEWINGSby Jeffrey Hatcher, director Thomas GruenewaldThree darkly funny and touching monologues set...
12/05/2017

March 17, 2018
THREE VIEWINGS
by Jeffrey Hatcher, director Thomas Gruenewald

Three darkly funny and touching monologues set in a small Midwestern town’s funeral parlor.
~ Tell Tale, a respectable married mortician is lost in passion for a beautiful real estate broker.
~ Thief of Tears, an upper-class daughter steals jewelry from corpses.
~ Thirteen Things about Ed Carpolotti, as the world crashes about a newly-widowed suburban matron, love rescues her from beyond the grave.

November 4, 2017THE COCKTAIL HOUR by A.R. Gurney, director Macey LevinJohn, a playwright, returns to his family's home, ...
10/08/2017

November 4, 2017
THE COCKTAIL HOUR
by A.R. Gurney, director Macey Levin

John, a playwright, returns to his family's home, bringing his new play in which they are his central characters. Aiming to receive their approval to continue its production, his affluent, very prim parents are uncooperative from the outset. During the ritual of cocktail hour, martinis fly—as do criticisms and revelations, both funny and moving.

Dewey Memorial Hall in Sheffield, MA.
Matinee ~ doors open at 1:30pm for 2pm reading, and,
Evening ~ doors open at 7pm for 7:30pm reading.

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Taconic, CT
06079

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+18604356928

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