About That's Life: Comic & Poignant One-Acts

That's Life! -- an evening of comic & poignant one-acts   (Adult Content)

Mere Mortals and other one-acts, by *David Ives

The Love Course by **A.R. Gurney

Powder Room by W. Massey

As the song says, you might be “riding high in April and shot down in May,” but you might as well enjoy that ride. Remember, you’ll be back on top in June. Secrets kept & revealed; questions about mortality & love...these plays will make you laugh, and bring tears to your eyes, as you think, “Yeah, that’s life!”   Directed by Linda Duarte.   Cast below.  

Have you ever felt like there just wasn’t enough time to get everything done that you want to do? Well, you’re not alone.  In fact, compared to some, you really have it easy.  Time Flies will give you a whole different perspective on the issue.

Do you know how it is when you have one thing planned in your life, but that life throws you a different scenario?  But keep your chin up, nice guys don’t always finish last, as you’ll realize when you eavesdrop on the conversations being held in The Powder Room, a break room for the sales associates of a fashionable women’s dress shop in 1930s London. Secrets can’t be kept forever!

Does everyone get their fifteen minutes of fame? And are they who you think they are?  Well, you just may need to think about that as you stop for lunch 50 stories up on a girder at a construction site.  The construction workers on the building are Mere Mortals, or are they?

Does literature reflect life or does life imitate literature?  Let’s see what is revealed in The Love Course as two professors teach a course about love in literature.  It just may have a “gotcha” point to make.

Would you like to live a day in the life of someone else?  In Degas, C’est Moi that is just what happens.  We’ll follow Ed all day and experience what he does, what he sees, and what he thinks.  And what will we learn?  C’est la vie! That’s Life!

Cast of “That’s Life,” Freeport Players’ June, 2022 show

Time Flies  (David Ives)

Alicia Ouellette Belmore—"May mayfly”              Matt McLaughlin—"Horace mayfly”

Paul Kane—“David Attenborough,” TV host of nature show

Powder Room (set in British women’s dress shop, 1930s)  W. Massey

Judy Lloyd—“Bella Gibling,” cleaning lady

Alicia Ouellette Belmore—"Cookie Baker,” sales assistant in Gowns

Karyn Diamond—"Susan Archer,”  sales assistant in Gowns

Nancy Kenneally—"Miss Parfoot,” shop manager

Catharine Carty-Wilbur—“Miss Fothergill,” companion

Corinne Stanley—"Elsa Morton,” fashion artist

Shirley Bernier—"Mrs. Channing-Brown,” upper-class mother

Mere Mortals   (David Ives)

Peter Nicoll—“Joe”      Bill Therriault—“Frank”     Chalmers Hardenbergh—“Charlie”           Construction workers

The Love Course  (A.R. Gurney)

Shirley Bernier—"Miss Carroway,” College prof of lit     David Crowell—"Mr. Burgess,” College prof of lit

Corinne Stanley—"Sally,” college student                 Erik Brobst—"Mike,” college student

Degas, C’est Moi   (David Ives)

David Wallace—"Ed”

Karyn Diamond—“Doris,” Ed’s girlfriend.

10 walk-ons to be provided by actors from the other plays.

*"Mere Mortals: Six One-Act Comedies" is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)

** “The Love Course” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

Freeport Players

Freeport Players provides opportunities for local amateur actors to perform in roles often reserved for professionals. We involve members of our community in all aspects of the process, drawing on their talent and enthusiasm to create the "magic" of theater. Our volunteers are compensated for their time with fun, creative challenges, the chance to learn about the craft of theater, and, often, bonds of friendship that endure long after the curtain closes.

Our mission

Freeport Community Players was founded in 1989:

To encourage and promote the theater arts by the development of skills, education, and appreciation in all phases of theater arts for the community;

To produce, stage, and present plays, workshops, musicals, music productions, readings, and other performances of a theatrical or civic nature;

To present speakers, lecturers, demonstrations, and other programs which relate to theater arts;

To do all things necessary, proper, and incidental to these educational and civic pursuits.

Our community

Freeport Players is community-based and runs predominately as a volunteer organization. There are no membership dues, and full participation by Greater Freeport community members in all FCP activities and productions is encouraged.

Our friends come from as far away as Old Orchard Beach, Topsham and Auburn, but over 40% are from Freeport, South Freeport and Pownal. Yarmouth residents make up the next largest group. They come from all age groups and all walks of life, all drawn to the unique opportunities for growth that community theater provides.

Our work

Freeport Players is best known for the dozens of shows it has staged since its first production, 1989's Hold On Molly. We have offered a range of theater experiences, from comedy to drama, classical to contemporary, plays and musicals.

Through these productions we provide people with opportunities to learn theater arts, both on stage and behind the scenes. Newcomers to theater benefit from working with seasoned veterans to produce high-quality sets, costumes, stage lighting, and performances and to learn techniques for stage management, publicity and other production skills.