Perceptions - An Evening of Short Plays

Island Stage presents Perceptions: An Evening of Short Plays. An outdoor performance on August 29th at beautiful Snow Farm Vineyards in South Hero will feature original work by New England playwrights.

Twelve actors playing sixteen roles directed by six directors take six original short plays on comedic, dramatic and quirky adventures exploring the way that perceptions can be unreliable, uproarious and ultimately unifying!

·      Pigments of Imagination by Hortense Gerardo, playwright based in Boston and Director of the Anthropology, Performance, and Technology (APT) program at the Univ. of California, San Diego. www.hortensegerardo.com

·      Reunion by Jeanne Beckwith. Her plays have been staged from coast to coast and as far away as Dublin, London, and Istanbul. jeannebeckwith.com

·      Organic Seed and Beatrix Potter Must Die! by Patrick Gabridge, playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. gabridge.com

·      Psychologically Incomplete by Maura Campbell screenwriter, playwright, director, and author. mauracampbellplays.com

·      The Popular Truth Game Show by Lesley Becker, playwright, director. Her plays have been staged in Vermont and Brooklyn. Her work is online at the New Play Exchange.

“These plays both highlight the importance of perception and the danger of relying on it as our only source of reality” says playwright and Perceptions co-producer Jeanne Beckwith. “Flaubert said that: "There is no truth. There is only perception." I'm not sure I entirely agree with him, but in the times we are living, truth has taken quite a beating”.

Tickets are $12 and available online at Island Stage, islandstage.org/buy-tickets or at the door. The plays are PG. For more information about the event check the Island Stage website.