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Cheyanne Metzger and Kevin Magee during rehearsals for "The Chalk Garden." DANA SHAW
Bonnie Grice, Cheyanne Metzger and Kevin Magee during rehearsals for "The Chalk Garden." DANA SHAW
Some of the cast of "The Chalk Garden;" Standing, Nancee Moes, Kevin Magee, Evelyn Lubrano and Tom Gregory. Seated, Bonnie Grice, Cheyanne Metzger and Esmeralda Cabrera. DANA SHAW
Kevin Mcgee and Bonnie Grice rehearse a scene. DANA SHAW
Bonnie Grice, Esmeralda Cabrera, Kevin Magee and Cheyanne Metzger during rehearsals. DANA SHAW
Esmeralda Cabrera, Bonnie Grice and Cheyanne Metzger during rehearsals at the Southampton Cultural Center. DANA SHAW
Esmeralda Cabrera, Bonnie Grice and Cheyanne Metzger during rehearsals at the Southampton Cultural Center. DANA SHAW
Rehearsals for "The Chalk Garden" at the Southampton Cultural Center. DANA SHAW
Rehearsals for "The Chalk Garden" at the Southampton Cultural Center. DANA SHAW
Cheyanne Metzger and Tom Gregory during a scene from "the Chalk Garden." DANA SHAW
Esmeralda Cabrera, Cheyanne Metzger and Tom Gregory during a scene from "The Chalk Garden." DANA SHAW
Esmeralda Cabrera, Cheyanne Metzger and Bonnie Grice rehearse a scene from "The Chalk Garden" at Southampton Cultural Center. DANA SHAW
A new season of Boots on the Ground Theater is coming up at Southampton Cultural Center, beginning with Enid Bagnold’s “The Chalk Garden” running October 6 to 15. For this show, Mark Heidemann is back in his role as director.
Because the wealthy Mrs. St. Maugham needs help raising both her garden and her granddaughter, Laurel, she hires a secretive but green-thumbed governess named Madrigal to care for the angst-ridden teenager. When Laurel unearths Madrigal’s mysterious past, the butler Maitland persuades the youngster not to tell what she’s discovered.
Next up will be A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters” from February 9 to 11. The play is a funny and emotional portrait about the powerful connection of love. Two friends, rebellious Melissa Gardner and straight-arrow Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, have exchanged notes, cards and letters with each other for over 50 years. From second grade, through summer vacations, to college, and well into adulthood, they have spent a lifetime discussing their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, and victories and defeats. But long after the letters are done, the real question remains — after all their letters have they made the right choices?
Finally, fall of 2024 will bring “Blithe Spirit,” Noël Coward’s classic farce first produced and published in 1941 which is often regarded as Coward’s best work. The play is about a man whose domestic life is disturbed by the jealous ghost of his first wife. It’s a combination of drawing-room comedy and ghost story, complete with an eccentric medium, seance, past love, resentment and desire … featuring the style and fast-paced wit that defines a Coward play. So gaze into your own crystal ball and make a plan to be at Southampton Cultural Center for Blithe Spirit in October 2024.
Tickets for “The Chalk Garden” are $35 ($25 students) at bootsonthegroundtheater.com. Shows are Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. with matinees at 2 p.m. on Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays. Southampton Cultural Center is at 25 Pond Lane, Southampton.
Staff Writer on Aug 28, 2023