The Peterborough Theatre Guild’s first full production of its 2022-23 season sees the one-act play Our Place come to the stage at the Guild hall in October.
Written by Terry Gabbard, the comedic drama consists of five unrelated scenes featuring different characters — a group of teenagers, a middle-aged woman and her elderly father, a middle-aged man and his family, a couple in their 20s, and a teenage boy and his young sister — who all visit the same wooden dock that extends out onto a lake.
The motivations for each character’s visit to the dock are different but, in the final scene, the entire ensemble gathers on the dock together where, in a poetic epilogue, they all learn what it means to experience joy and sorrow, love and heartbreak and, ultimately, life and death.
Our Place was originally performed at the 2014 North Carolina Theatre Conference, where it was selected as “Distinguished Play.” It went on to be performed at the Southeastern Theatre
Conference, where it was named “Best New Play.”
The Peterborough Theatre Guild’s production of Our Place, directed by Tami Whitley and produced by Amy Willshaw, runs for seven performances from Friday, October 14th to Sunday, October 23rd at the Guild hall (364 Rogers Street, Peterborough), with evening performances at 7:30 p.m. on October 14 and 15 and October 20 to 22, and matinee performances at 2 p.m. on October 16 and 23.
Tickets are $15 for assigned seating and are available by calling the box office anytime at 705-745-4211 (leave a message if the box office is not open) or online at peterboroughtheatreguild.com.
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