Events & Projects
Telling the Times
Series in development for 2025
We live in a time of epic changes, happening faster than ever before. Who crafted the precepts by which we live and work? How? Why? How have they changed over time, and how do they support us in the world we find ourselves navigating today?
With a professional production team, The Works (aka Playworks) develops and produces stage and film projects that broaden perspective on local and global communities, and often include partnerships with sponsors and co-producers. Click the linked titles below for more about some of the current / recent ones.
Series in development for 2025
We live in a time of epic changes, happening faster than ever before. Who crafted the precepts by which we live and work? How? Why? How have they changed over time, and how do they support us in the world we find ourselves navigating today?
A series of stage and film documentaries with people whose life stories collectively reveal America's story over the past century
Sponsored by Plymouth Harbor 2024 / Sponsored by Aldersgate 2018-2022
In the original AOA, seven people ages 73 to 95 met for 15 months to document their lives and to create Acting Our Age: One Century in Seven Voices, a stage-and-film documentary that traces those lives 'from then to now.' Their experiences intersect with nearly everything that's happened in America over the past 100 years. AOA became a series that shows how history happened through close-ups on the people who lived through it. Voices of the Pandemic (2021) is a film about how seven people navigated life during a year like no other. In 2022 the live performance and film Using Our Voices traced how The Silent Generation paved the way for the Boomers. The series continues in 2024 with Voices of the Harbors in Sarasota, Florida, sponsored by Plymouth Harbor.
"The humor, the sadness, the challenges and the events of nearly 100 years of American history, shared through the lives of these seven people, were a joy to listen to." Audience member Charles Payet
"The humor, the sadness, the challenges and the events of nearly 100 years of American history, shared through the lives of these seven people, were a joy to listen to." Audience member Charles Payet
Acting Our Age 2024: Voices of the Harbors
Sarasota FL / Sponsored by Plymouth Harbor
The series continues with this new edition, developed over 8 months. 10 people born in the last decade of The Silent Generation relive the challenges of leaving home to find home in a time of defining innovation in America and abroad. See the news page for more.
The Christians by Lucas Hnath (Area premiere)
Playworks Group and Pine Hill Project at Blumenthal Performing Arts
What do you believe? And why do you believe it? Those questions drive this surprising play that's set in a megachurch in today's America. Critics and audiences nationwide have praised the play's ability to articulate many points of view. This producton was a six month project that featured an onstage choir of 23 singers from the community working with the professional cast. TalkBacks among actors, audiences and guest clergy followed all performances. The play's innovative writer, Lucas Hnath, is a Tony Award nominee for A Doll's House, Part 2.
"Can we work, pray, or even live together anymore after we've recognized that we disagree?" Broadway World
Playworks Group at Blumenthal Performing Arts
Based on the best-selling novel and N.Y. Times Notable Book by Clyde Edgerton, Lunch at the Piccadilly is an original musical about changing the world - one rocking chair at a time. With songs by Drama Desk Award winner Mike Craver, the show was developed in three productions and at the York Theatre Company in N.Y. The most recent production also hosted supporting programs about the realities of elderhood in contemporary America.
"It's about people who aren't waiting to die, but continuing to live to the very end." Up and Coming Magazine
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