Events & Projects
With a professional production team, The Works (Playworks Group) develops and produces plays, film projects and special events, often ones that focus on local and global communities, and how they are connected. Click the links below for more information about some of them and their sponsors/co-producers.
Series / Special Events
In the first of this developing series of documentaries about living in a daily changing world, a group of people who have experienced homelessness gathered to tell their stories and give rare access to their lives in a world that's hiding in plain sight.
A series of stage-and-film projects with people whose life stories show and tell how history was made
Sponsored by Aldersgate 2018-2022 / Sponsored by Plymouth Harbor 2025-2027
In 2019, seven people ages 73 to 95 met for 15 months to document their lives - and our history - in Acting Our Age: One Century in Seven Voices. Voices of the Pandemic (2021) is a film about seven people surviving a year like no other. Using Our Voices, a live event and film (2022) traces how the Silent Generation paved the way for the Boomers. In 2027, the series continues with a new project. Each of these projects is developed over the course of a year with a core group and a professional production team.
The 2024-2025 Acting Our Age project
Acting Our Age: Voices of the Harbors
Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center/Holley Hall
Sponsored by Plymouth Harbor, Sarasota Fl
In the 2024-2025 project, developed over eight months, 10 people born in the decade culminating with the end of World War ll relive the challenges of leaving home to find home in a defining time of innovation in America and abroad. Sponsored by Plymouth Harbor.
Theatre
Partial archive
The Christians A play Lucas Hnath
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. Lucas Hnath received a Best Play Tony Award nomination 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
The Playworks Group employs members of professional disciplines including Actors' Equity, representing American
actors and stage managers in the theatre; and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
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