SAYBROOK STAGE COMPANY LAUNCHES “ROMANTIC COMEDY” AT THE KATE

If you’re a wildly successful and much admired playwright, with hits on the Great White Way, might you be forgiven for also being self-centered, arrogant and possessing a sword tongue like Zorro, always ready to cut and slice. Jason Carmichael, full of himself, and opinionated writer is on the verge of two major life events: he is about to gain a lovely society belle Alison St. James as his wife and he is poised to lose his highly motivating collaborator who has the nerve and audacity to retire.

 

As if that isn’t enough drama for anyone to handle, even someone as adept with words and phrases as Carmichael, a naïve and well meaning mouse of a woman from Vermont, a school teacher who wants to write plays, is ready to invade his personal space and make herself at home.

 

Before you can pay homage to George Bernard Shaw three times, the two unlikely pair are off and running to pen the occasional flop and the better received successes that will mark their association for more than a decade. Will the romantic flashes ever take root and spark between them or are they destined to be ships passing in the night without a convenient tugboat nearby to bring them together? Phoebe Craddock has long been a worshipping fan of Carmichael and is ready and eager to be the perky new partner that he is in need of hiring.

 

To meet the sophisticated playwright and his adoring new collaborator, come to the Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook from Thursday, July 18 to Sunday, July 21 courtesy of the Saybrook Stage Company. Be prepared to laugh at the light hearted antics that engage the talented acting troupe of Devin Carney, Cat McDonald, Terri Corgliano, Brett DePetrillo and Shannon Keegan.

 

For tickets ($17-23), call the Kate at 860-510-0453 or go online tokatherinehepburntheater.org. Performances are Thursday at 8 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

 

Fill a summer day or evening with joy and laughter

courtesy of the Saybrook Stage Company as they present their 18^thproduction at the Kate.