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Meet the Equus Cast: Sven Wiberg

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Sven Wiberg as Alan Strang | Photo by Ben Kramer

Sven Wiberg is currently performing in Rosemary at the Players’ Ring and is excited to be portraying Alan Strang in Equus. This is his first season working at the Players’ Ring and he is happy to be back performing. He has previously been Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Clive/Gerry in Cloud 9, and Agamemnon in The Trojan Women. He went to Wheaton College, where he majored in theater as part of a double major.

Don’t miss this extraordinary performance and be sure to join us for our 10th Anniversary production of Equus at the Players’ Ring Theatre

March 2 – 18
Show times are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $18 with discounts for students, seniors, and Players’ Ring members.
To make your reservation visit playersring.org or call 603-436-8123

*Equus is for mature audiences only*

#memoriesmonday Equus 2008

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Taking it back to May 2008 and Back Alley‘s founding production of Equus, in collaboration with Todd Hunter and Rolling Die Productions:

Producer Todd Hunter & Director Joi Smith | Equus 2008 | Players’ Ring Theatre

Dylan Shwartz-Wallach as Alan Strang | Equus 2008 | Players’ Ring Theatre

Equus 2008 | Players’ Ring | Poster Design Scott Michaud

 

 

Meet the Equus Cast: Matthew Schofield

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Matthew Schofield as Dr. Martin Dysart  |  Photo by Ben Kramer

 

Matthew Schofield is thrilled and grateful to be performing in Equus as Dr. Martin Dysart with this great ensemble on his favorite stage. Matthew is a Spotlight Award winning actor who was most recently seen onstage this past January in A Steady Rain and will be appearing in The Graduate and Titus Andronicus coming up next at the Players’ Ring.

Don’t miss this extraordinary performance and be sure to join us for our 10th Anniversary production of Equus at the Players’ Ring Theatre

March 2 – 18
Show times are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $18 with discounts for students, seniors, and Players’ Ring members.
To make your reservation visit playersring.org or call 603-436-8123

*Equus is for mature audiences only*

Back Alley Productions Celebrates 10th Anniversary! 

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My, oh my, how the time flies by! We just can’t believe that 10 years have passed since we decided to embark on this crazy adventure together and we are so grateful for all of the amazing people that we have had the honor to collaborate with throughout this past decade!

We are so proud to say that out of the 16 productions that we have brought to Seacoast audiences, 7 of those productions were benefits for HAVEN , (raising a grand total of over $56,000) and 3 productions were benefits for our beloved Players’ Ring Theatre .

Throughout the years, we have also helped to showcase the talents of dozens of local playwrights, poets, visual artists and musicians through our Love & V-Day Productions, as well as offering members of our community, who may be new to acting, an opportunity to shine on stage!

Please be sure to join us March 2 – 18 at the Players’ Ring, where we will be bringing back to the stage our very first production – Peter Shaffer’s Equus.

Psychiatrist Dr. Martin Dysart, is confronted with a boy named Alan Strang who has blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion. This very passion is as foreign to Dysart as the act itself. To the boy’s parents, it is a hideous mystery; Alan has always adored horses. To Dysart it is a psychological puzzle that leads both doctor and patient into a complex and disturbingly dramatic confrontation.

Show times are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $18 with discounts for students, seniors, and Players’ Ring members. To make your reservation visit playersring.org or call 603-436-8123

*Equus is for mature audiences only.*

Dylan Schwartz-Wallach as Alan Strang  |  Equus 2008 |  Players’ Ring Theatre 

Compleat Female Stage Beauty at the Players’ Ring

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Danica Carlson as Maria, Olivia Tobin as Nell Gwynn, Billy Butler as Edward Kynaston and Jennifer Henry as Margaret Hughes. Photo by M. Lavigne Photography

Back Alley Productions is delighted to bring Jeffrey Hatcher’s masterpiece Compleat Female Stage Beauty to the Players’ Ring!
June 2 – 18 Back Alley Productions presents Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher at the Players’ Ring Theatre located at 105 Marcy St. in Portsmouth. Showtimes are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sunday matinees at 3 pm. Tickets cost $15
with discounts for students, seniors, and Players’ Ring members. To reserve,

In 1661 the most famous portray-er of female roles on the London stage was a performer named “Kynaston.” Like every other player permitted to enact such roles, Kynaston was a man. A celebrity artist shining bright at the crest of the English Restoration, Ned (or Mr. K, as he’s called), is applauded onstage and off for his interpretations of Shakespeare’s tragic ladies: Ophelia, Cleopatra, especially his Desdemona and his famous “death scene.”

He’s the toast of the town and the very secret “mistress” of the powerful Duke of Buckingham. But when an unknown named Margaret Hughes plays Desdemona illegally one night at a competing theater, instead of stopping the show, the ever-game King Charles II changes the law to allow women to act on the stage.

By the stroke of a pen, Kynaston’s world is turned upside-down. He loses his cachet, his livelihood, his lover and his sense of self. And as such women as the king’s own courtesan, Nell Gwynn, and Kynaston’s former dresser, Maria, become stars, his own light disappears until fate and his desire for revenge give him a chance to take the stage again.

Back Alley Productions has been creating thought provoking, quality, theater for the New Hampshire Seacoast since 2008. Its founders, Joi Smith and Danica Carlson, share a passion for highlighting the amazing talents in the community and bringing to life the beautiful stories of the human experience for their audiences to enjoy.