AlmostMaine

The Dorset Players were proud to present John Cariani’s “Almost Maine” at The Dorset Playhouse on Cheney Road in Dorset, VT on March 5-7 and March 12-14. Sponsored by The Bennington Bank and Trust, Orvis, and New Morning Natural Foods, critics have called this play “a snowy charmer...These nine tales of love in the time of frostbite have a winning glow that proves surprisingly contagious.” Director Dom Degnon assembled a stellar cast that combined many familiar faces with four talented newcomers to the Dorset stage. Dorset Playhouse favorites Christy Vogel, Christopher Restino, Patrick Schelle, and Tracy Hughes were most recently seen in the Players' fall production of “Arsenic and Old Lace”, and Ron Nagle and Debby Goldman, who delighted audiences in “The Whole Shebang” last winter, were joined by Amaia Perta, Melissa Runnels, Jack Sleigh and BBA faculty member, Jim Young. BBA student veterans of the Dorset stage Laura Amatruto and Martha Degnon, who most recently appeared as the Scarecrow in “The Patchwork Girl of Oz” rounded out the cast. Sherry Kratzer and BBA sophomore Corey Hazelton, who played a camper in last year’s Missoula Children’s Theater production of “Hansel and Gretel, joined the cast in the non-speaking roles of the very visible and sometimes unpredictable stage hands. Under the northern lights in the mythical town of Almost, Maine the actors played residents who fell in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways in this light-hearted, yet poignant look at relationships and love.