The Drama Circle at The Dance Studio, Saturday, November 12

Doreen Gallien

The Drama Circle at The Dance Studio, Saturday, 
November 12

The Drama Circle, which is dedicated to original works of the stage and screen, is moving to The Dance Studio at 5 South Main Street in downtown Orange, MA on Saturday, November 12 from 2 - 5 PM.  The Dance Studio, the home of the Inside Out Dance Company founded in 2008 by Brenda Hall-Schatz and Ingrid Schatz, provides dancers with the opportunity to strengthen their skills and share their talent with the Greater Quabbin Region.

Ingrid Schatz, a founding member of the Performing
Arts Division of Art for Life.

The afternoon's readings will include a play by Doreen Gallien of Athol.  “Arnold” is the story of a mother and daughter who adopt a temperamental cat during a huge spring storm.  The storm stirs up more than leaves and dust; their calm neighborhood is turning inside out as the storm progresses. 

Steve Silva who brought “Justice Served” to last month’s reading will bring along a couple of ten minute plays, and Kevin Romano has another short play he is working on too and wants to hear feed-back before he continues.  Please join us for the readings and the lively discussion which follows.

The Drama Circle is open to the public free of charge and is sponsored by the performing arts division of the non-profit organization, Art for Life.  Readings are scheduled for the second Saturday of each month.  If you are an actor or interested in participating in a reading or having an original play or screenplay read, please contact the artistic director Genevieve Fraser at Tel. (978) 544-1872, or email: FraserGenevieve@gmail.com.  For further information, see the website: http://www.thedramacircle.blogspot.com

Comedy “P.A. (Playwrights Anonymous)" Featured at The Drama Circle, Saturday, June 11 in Orange, MA

P. A. (Playwrights Anonymous) featured Saturday, June 11th


The comedy, “P. A. (Playwrights Anonymous),” by South Carolinian award winning playwright, Rene Plante will be the featured reading at The Drama Circle on Saturday, June 11 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm. at 7 East Main Street, Orange, Massachusetts.  The narrator for the day’s reading will be his niece, Orange resident, Charlene Deam.  The Drama Circle is dedicated to original works of the stage and screen and is open to the public free of charge, according to organizer and artistic director Genevieve Fraser.  

“’P. A. (Playwrights Anonymous)’ features six characters addicted to playwriting that belong to Playwrights Anonymous,” Plante explained. “The play takes us to one of the support group meetings. All have pledged never to write another play as long as he/she lives, but, in fact, each one is still addicted, as evidenced by the unbelievable confession each one makes at the therapy session,” he said.

Novelist, David Plante

Playwright, Rene Plante, is a retired naval captain who began writing plays later in life and is the author of eight full-length, four one-act, and several so-called 10-minute plays. He's a past president and current member of Scriptwriters of S.C. Inc.  Rene’s brother is the novelist, David Plante, whose “Difficult Women” (1983), a memoir of his relationships with Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, and Germaine Greer was nominated for the National Book Award. 

According to Rene, his bother David told the playwright Edward Albee (author of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf") that his brother (Rene) had gotten interested in writing plays.  “David told me that Albee's response was something like, ‘Tell him to run as fast as he can in the opposite direction!’  Today, I'm glad I didn't run,” Plante admits.

If you are an actor or interested in participating in a reading or having an original play or screenplay read, please contact Genevieve Fraser at Tel. # (978) 544-1872, or email: FraserGenevieve@gmail.com. 

The Drama Circle is sponsored by the performing arts division of the non-profit organization, Art for Life.  Readings are scheduled for the second Saturday of each month.  

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