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For more than fifteen years the
Ashfield Community Theater has produced high quality plays performed by
regional actors and enjoyed by thousands of audience members from all over southern
New England.
We are very pleased to our Spring 2012 production
The American Clock by Arthur Miller
Subtitled
“a mural for the theater,” the play employs a series of
vignettes and short scenes, with the actors portraying some fifty-two
characters, to capture the sense and substance of America in the throes of
the Great Depression. The
central figures are the Baums, a wealthy family
whose fortune has vanished in the stock market crash, but their story is
amplified and illuminated by glimpses into other lives; a farmer who has
lost all in the dust bowl; a prostitute who exchanges her favors for dental
work; a white southern Sheriff in thrall to a black short-order cook; a
young man who dreams of success on Tin Pan Alley, and many others. With scenes both funny and movingly
poignant, the play reflects the indomitable spirit of the people who
survived and prevailed in the face of unaccustomed adversity. It is certainly a play for our time.
The American
Clock
will be performed on the Ashfield Town Hall Stage in Ashfield,
Massachusetts, on May 25th and 26th and on June 1st
and 2nd, with a matinee performance on Sunday, May 27th.
The play is directed by
Springfield College professor Martin Shell, who previously directed
Ashfield Community Theater’s productions of The Voysey Inheritance and The Cripple of Inishmaan.
The
large cast of area actors includes:
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Stephen Arnold
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Annalise Cain
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Sue Davis
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John Darrow
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Buz Eisenberg
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Michael Epstein
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Karina Feitner
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Michael Fitzgerald
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Gene Gramarossa
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Rick Hindley
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Shelby Howland
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Leslie Kearsley
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David Knowles
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Rona Leventhal
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Kevin Maroney
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Julie Sarsynski
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Lynn Vesely
Check back from time to
time to learn more about the production.
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