East End Players Get Creative in a New Way

[caption id="attachment_74124" align="alignnone" width="800"] Actors from East End Special Players in “Trouble in Jamaica.”[/caption]

They have done it. For the first time in their 30-year history, the East End Special Players are officially playwrights.

For three decades, the troupe of learning-challenged adults has performed more traditional plays, riffing on them with improvisational theater by using their own lives as both humorous and poignant stage fodder.

This time, it’s entirely fiction — and it’s top-notch comedy.

Staging one night only on October 28 is “Trouble In Jamaica,” a colorful romp that will unfold on the Guild Hall stage, located at 158 Main Street in East Hampton.

Set in a downbeat apartment building somewhere in Jamaica, Queens, the farce — most of which is set to music — stars a range of eccentric, off-the-grid characters led by the building super, who orchestrates the proceedings “as misfits and scofflaws interweave in the daily comings and goings of the apartment dwellers,” according to a press release.

“Every line, every vignette is the result of a narrative collaboration among the troupe, who count many learning disabilities among them — Down syndrome, autism, bi-polar, hearing and sight loss, and a host of other physical and mental challenges,” the release explained. “Yet whatever the challenge, what this acting ensemble achieves on the stage is often astounding.”

The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 and $10 for children under age 12. For more information, call (631) 726-4477 or visit eastendspecialplayers.com.