With Arts Underwriters:

Salmon Falls Community Credit Union
Tasker Funeral Home
Burns, Bryant, Cox, Rockefeller & Durkin
James Kageliery, New York Life Insurance

Other Programming at the Arts Center...

Past GP Seasons....

2006-2007
How the Other Half Loves
The Fantasticks
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Into the Woods
The Road to Mecca

2005-2006
Cemetery Club
Little Shop of Horrors
No Sooner Won Than Wed
Laura
Quilters

2004-2005
1776
A Voice of My Own
The Pirates of Penzance
Run For Your Wife
Pippin

See a list of all previous shows!

May 11-13, 18-20

The story of a an eccentric woman in South Africa who, after the death of her husband, becomes the village crazy person as she begins to have visions of Mecca, an illuminated city that she begins to recreate.

Suggested by the life and work of Helen Martins of New Bethesda and produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

	The Cast....


	Peggi McCarthy (Helen Martins) is a writer, director, teacher, and actress who has been active in the Seacoast arts community since 1980. She holds a Master of Letters in Theater from Middlebury College. A co-founder of Generic Theater, she has also directed and acted with other area companies, including ACTONE, Seacoast Rep, Theatre on the Rocks, Durham Centerstage, and The Players' Ring. She has been nominated as best director and twice as best actress. She has also served the community as a theater reviewer. Her short stories and reviews have appeared in small presses around the country. She currently teaches writing at New Hampshire Institute of Art, and resides in Exeter with her husband, set designer Cary Wendell.


			Sarah Bailey (Elsa Barlow) makes her debut with Garrison Players with this memorable play that she stage managed in college. She anticipates another electric experience, because the script strikes at the heart and challenges the mind. Sarah returns to the stage grateful to collaborate with this talented cast, crew, and director. Since 2001, she has performed in southern NH, and dabbled a bit as a director. Past favorite roles include Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, Myrtle in Mornings at Seven, and Terry in Sideman, all at the Players Ring. She thanks Eddie Langlois for his recommendation, Alexandra Borrie for her lessons, and her dearest Emerson for reinvigorating her passion for theater. Sarah owns a surly hound, or rather, her dog owns her, she works with boys and lobsters, and has returned to school to pursue writing and teaching. She dedicates her performance to her late friend Bernie Tato – a fine actor and a pure soul.


		Alan Huisman (Marius Byleveld) has been acting on Seacoast stages for the past ten years. Thus far in 2007 he has played Abel Znorko in Enigma Variations (York Readers Theater), Tobi Powell in Match (ADHD Productions), and Victor Velasko in Barefoot in the Park (Way Off Broadway Players). He is currently rehearsing several roles in a production of Henry 5.0, which will be performed at the Players’ Ring in June.