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Welcome to the Poolesville
Drama Club

Sponsor: Mrs. Gail Howard

       Perform the fall play, spring musical and Midnight Madness (variety show). Anyone is welcome to try out. If acting is not an interest, tech crew is also available

Gail Howard
The Admirable Crichton

  Get out your passport!  The Midnight Players want to take you on a trip to London and the tropics.  The fall production is The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie of Peter Pan fame.  Set in the late 1800’s, the story concerns Lord Loam, who believes that society should return to nature where everyone would be equal.  To act on his beliefs, he forces his three daughters to serve tea to the servants once a month in the drawing room, a practice which provides the audience much merriment as all the participants try to interact socially.  The entire household dreads the monthly teas, but Crichton, the epitome of the English butler, most of all.
            Lord Loam gets the opportunity to try out his desire for equality in nature when he and his daughters, two friends, and a servant girl go on a voyage and are wrecked on a tropical island.   As their time on the island drags on, Lord Loam’s views are sorely tested.
            This play is reminiscent of the old television sit-com, Gillian’s Island, but with a British twist.  With both humor and pathos, Barrie helps the audience consider what happens when the social norms are “shaken and stirred’.

The play will be presented on Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m., Friday, November 20 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, November 21 at 2:00 and 7:30 p. m.  Tickets, which are $5 for students and $8 for adults, will be sold at the school box office beginning Thursday, November 12 from 11:00 – 11:30 a. m. and from 2:15 – 2:45 p. m.  Tickets may be reserved online by contacting Mrs. Lisa Templeton at jlh.temp@verizon.net. There will be a $2 per ticket surcharge to exchange reserved tickets.  Reserved tickets may be paid for and picked up at the Will Call table in the auditorium lobby at least 20 minutes prior to each performance.

Many of the roles in the play are double cast.  One cast performs on Thursday and Saturday nights; the other on Friday night and Saturday matinee.  The title role of Crichton is played by John Yendrey and Dylan Hodges. Nature lover, Lord Loam, is portrayed by Kevin Koeser and Dain Knudson.  Lord Loam’s daughters are Lady Mary - Celeste Kelly and Serena Nguyen, Lady Catherine – Erin Auel and Amy Stamm, and Lady Agatha – Krystal Stevens and Kerry Reed.  The Cockney maid, Tweeny, is played by Halie O’Farrell and Hillary Templeton, the epigram-spouting Lord Ernest Woolley by Anthony Franks and Garrett Taggart, and the good-hearted Rev. Trehern by Cameron Hixson and James Rogers.  Lord Brocklehurst is played by Joe Denicola and Jeremy Hollis and his mother, the audacious Lady Brocklehurst, by Aimeé Prideaux and Bailey Kerr. The casts are rounded out by the following actors playing a variety of roles: Katrina Yaworski, Kaycee Norton, Claire Jones, Anna Mihm, Tedi Tomares, Yara Elbeshbeshi, Jena Stone, Ashley Barney, Diana Tappert, Alexandra Wiley, Cierra Speight, Bryn Whitney-Blum, Rebecca Morris, Laura Barnard, Hannah Gilles, Bridget Knudson, .Kimberly Lartz, Katie Kasunic, Madie Mettam, Cameron Rhode, Dylan Tomares, Nicholas Jesuitas, Christine Tseng, and Samantha Stanford.

Mr. Matt Johnson, Tech Director, and Danny Marshall, Student Tech Director, are working with an impressive tech crew to create an English drawing room and a Pacific island for the sets. 

The Midnight Players invite everyone to see this entertaining and thought-provoking production.

 

For more information contact the Midnight Players director, Gail Howard, at Gail_H_Howard@mcpsmd.org. or call 301-972-7940.

The Cast

CHARACTER

TH/SAT

FRI/SAT MAT

CRICHTON

JOHN YENDREY

DYLAN HODGES

LADY MARY

CELESTE  KELLY

SERENA NGUYEN

LADY CATHERINE

ERIN AUEL

AMY STAMM

LADY AGATHA

KRYSTAL STEVENS

KERRY REED

LORD LOAM

DAIN KNUDSON

KEVIN KOESER

ERNEST

ANTHONY FRANKS

GARRETT TAGGERT

TREHERN

CAMERON HIXSON

JAMES ROGERS

BROCKLEHURST

JOE DENICOLA

JEREMY HOLLIS

LADY BROCKLEHURST

AMY PRIDEAUX

BAILEY KERR

TWEENY

HALIE OFARREL

HILLARY TEMPLETON

MRS. PERKINS

KATRINA YAWORSKI

KAYCEE NORTON

FISHER

CLAIRE JONES

ANNA MIHM

SIMMONS

 TEDI TOMARES

YARA ELBESHBISHI

JEANNE

JENA STONE

ASHLEY BARNEY

JANE

DIANA TAPPERT

ALEXANDRA WILEY

GLADYS

SIERRA SPEIGHT

BRYN WHITNEY-BLUM

ELISE

  REBECCA MORRIS

 

JOHN

LAURA BARNARD

HANNAH GILLES

STABLE BOY

 BRIDGET KNUDSON

 

NAVEL OFFICER

  KATIE KASUNIC

 

SAILOR

 MADIE METTAM

 

MONSIEUR FLEURY

CAMERON RHODE

 

ROLLESTON

DYLAN TOMARES

 

MR. TOMPSETT

NICK JESUITAS

 

THOMAS

CHRISTINA TSENG

 

PAGE BOY

 SAMANTHA STANFORD

 

KITCHEN WENCH

 KIMBERLY LARTZ

 

The production is directed by Gail H. Howard.


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