Articles Tagged With: McKenna Kelly

A Man For All Seasons at Kentlands Community Players

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author: Rick Bergmann 

Conscience on Trial: A Man for All Seasons at Kentlands Community Players

One of the ongoing frustrations of community theater is how often companies return to the same familiar titles. Box-office logic tends to favor what is popular and proven, even if it means repeating shows audiences have seen many times before. That is why it is genuinely exciting when a theater announces a new work—or, as Kentlands Community Players has done this week,

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Justin Oratokhari (left) as Christopher and Yael Schoenbaum (right) as Pegeen in The Playboy of the Western World at Silver Spring Stage 📷 Freckled Fox Photography

The Playboy of the Western World- a new version at Silver Spring Stage

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As many a bleak day lay ahead, we have to remember what’s good about this part of the world. There’s information and things work. The information: Silver Spring Stage is producing a new version of John Millington Synge’s Playboy of the Western World (by Bisi Adigun & Roddy Doyle) and it’s now appearing on their stage as the first show of 2025. And it works. Directed by Seth Ghitelman, this quirky but dark comedy of incidental errors and tall tales puts a refreshing spin on the way we look at outsiders and how we value their stories.

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