Theatre unveils 2018 season
Watermark Theatre’s 2018 summer season will include the classic thriller Dial “M” For Murder by Frederick Knott and the powerful A Moon For The Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill.
The season, announced by artistic director Robert Tsonos and general manager Andrea Surich, will also include the popular music series, Classic Music Reignited, celebrating its fifth year. Also on the schedule is the Watermark Play Reading Series focusing on new plays in development by Atlantic Canadian Playwrights.
Dial “M” For Murder by Frederick Knott, written in 1952, tells the frightening story of a husband planning the murder of his adulterous wife. He arranges the perfect crime by blackmailing a scoundrel he used to know into strangling her at a time when he has the perfect alibi. Of course, things do not turn out as planned. The play that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s film classic weaves an ever-tightening web of danger and deception. Full of twists, turns and suspense, this gripping thriller will keep the audience on the edge of their seat.
Written in 1943 by four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill, A Moon for the Misbegotten, is set on a Connecticut tenant farm where two lost souls find hope and redemption under a lover’s moon. Josie Hogan is a boisterous woman with a quick tongue and a tarnished reputation. It’s been a hard and lonely life, working the Tyrone farm with her bullying father. One night, with the man she is in love with, James Tyrone, sparks fly and hope burns anew as two “misbegotten” souls come together.
In a shift in programming to the Play Reading Series, this year’s plays will showcase new work in development by Atlantic Canadian playwrights. A selection process will begin immediately to choose three new, unpublished and unproduced plays to be read by our company of actors during the month of August. A list of plays and playwrights will be released in the spring of 2018.
The popular Classic Music Reignited series will be curated by Rob Oakie.
As always, Island musical artists interpret classic composers in a way that never heard before. Stay tuned for the list of composers and Island musicians soon.
Season ticket passes are now on sale at early bird rates. Call 902-963-3963 or visit www. watermarktheatre.com.