The event will offer seven short plays, along with a fancy dessert, for the modest price of $5. Shows will be at the Bell Theatre on Courthouse Square in Pineville on Friday, September 1; Saturday, September 2; and Sunday, September 3. Friday and Saturday shows begin at 7 p.m., with the Sunday matinee at 2:30 p.m.
After each performance, desserts, provided by the Bell County Public Library staff, will be served at the Flocoe.
Funds raised are designated for scholarships for local graduating seniors with an interest in theatre arts.
This year's program features an original play, Thanksgiving at Daddy's, written and directed by Amy Kreiter. Kreiter, an assistant professor of English at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, based the story on colorful characters she knew in her childhood home in Mississippi.
There will be six other acts: Dear John, directed by Whitney Barton; The Great Goldi-Lockup, directed by Tiffany Marlow; Dat's Amore, directed by Robert Cox; To Be or Not, a comic monologue by Jordan Shackleford; Who's on First? a classic comic routine originally made popular by Abbott & Costello , to be performed by Jeff Moore and John Lake; and Postcards, directed by Mike Lilly of Greeneville, Tenn.
Lilly, a former MLT member, says he is thrilled to be returning to Bell County where he made his stage debut in the MLT's production of The Curious Savage.
Since leaving the Middlesboro area, he has worked with several theater programs throughout East Tennessee including the Theatre Guild of Morristown, Jonesborough Repertory Theatre, and Theatre-at-Tusculum to name a few.
His favorite roles include Howard Wagner in Death of a Salesman, Muley Graves in The Grapes of Wrath, Arnold Wiggins in The Boys Next Door (for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Award), Ray-Bud Turpin in Dearly Departed, Harold Gorringe in Black Comedy, Stephen Mead Johnson in The Laramie Project, Dr. Hermann Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace (Best Supporting Actor Award), Peter in The Zoo Story, and Axel Hammond in The Nerd.
The 2006 Evening of One-Acts' will honor the memory of past MLT members Sue McCarty, James Bowling, Sandra Watkins, Robin Armitage, Lana Delk, and Michael Jones.
“We are excited about this year's lineup,” said MLT spokesperson Judy Cox. “We'd like to encourage local people to stay home, save that expensive gas, and enjoy our very talented hometown actors,” she added. “It's the best entertainment value in town,” Cox concluded.
Robert Cox is president of MLT. He is a professor of English at SKCTC in Middlesboro.
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