Portland Civic Theatre Guild
First Tuesday
Reader's Theatre
2009-2010 Season

October 6 
A Taste of Honey
by Shelagh Delaney

directed by Doug Baldwin

The relationship between Jo, a pregnant adolescent, and her irresponsible roving mother Helen, is set in 1960's Britain. Jo's unshakable optimism sustains her throughout struggles including the sailor who left her and her mother's newly acquired drunken husband. Luckily Jo's gay friend Geoffrey stands by her through it all. This beautiful bitter-sweet play changed British theatre and continues to enthrall audiences today.

November 3 
The Cemetery Club 
by Ivan Menchell

directed by Trish Egan

This touching and humorous play follows three widows who meet once a month to visit their husbands' graves. Sweet tempered Ida looks for a new life, feisty Lucille hopes for fun, and judgmental Doris learns a life lesson when love blossoms between Ida and the widowed butcher Sam.

December 1
The Road to Mecca
by Athol Fugard

directed by Chrisse Roccaro

Miss Helen, an old Boer woman, is an artist living alone in the South African boondocks where she creates odd concrete sculptures which she calls her Mecca. When a narrow minded minister who considers the sculptures a public nuisance threatens to send Helen to an old-folks home she is helped by a young woman who travels thousands of miles to stand by her.

February 2 
The Mysterious Mr. Love
by Karoline Leach

directed by Gretchen Corbett

Suspense and thrills abound in this period drama. A dapper smoothy makes his living by wooing and wedding plain young women who have a little money stashed away. After each wedding night he disappears. This time, however, things don't go as planned as he attempts to swindle a young milliner's assistant with her own secret agenda.

March 2
A Walk in the Woods 
by Lee Blessing

directed by Jack Featheringill

In a “pleasant woods on the outskirts of Geneva” a Russian and American arms negotiator meet after long, frustrating hours at the bargaining table. Through their revealing conversations we become aware both of the deepening understanding between these two decent men and the elemental differences between their two governments, a difference which will continue to grow as long as leaders are burdened by the bitterness of the past.

April 6 
The Hammerstone 
by Jo Tuttle

directed by Jeffery Stocker

At a small college with virtually no admission requirements, two aging professors deal differently, but disastrously, with students whose S.A.T. scores are lower than their cholesterol count. Through encounters with different students including a bewildered baseball player, a smitten spinster, and a gorgeous business major, the professors are reminded that with education comes various responsibilities which sometimes supersede actual teaching.

May 4 
A Musical Treat
Once again, the “dessert” of the season. A delightful and dynamic musical treat performed by some of Portland's finest!

Readings are presented at the Old Church, 1422 SW 11^th (at Clay)

Coffee at 10:00AM Performance at 10:30 AM

Season Tickets:$35 Single Performances: $6.00

Tickets available at the door or send a check to:
Portland Civic Theatre Guild
PO Box 1181, Portland, OR 97207
www.PortlandCivicTheatreGuild.org