There is something reassuring and comforting about Nemasket River Productions’ romantic comedy, Same Time, Next Year, opening at 133 Center Street, Middleborough, this coming weekend. The setting is a room at a northern California inn, where, as the lights come up, a man and a woman are dealing, in their individual, quiet ways, with morning-after awkwardness. George (Chris Gates) is a married accountant from New Jersey who is making his annual visit to do the books for an old friend. Doris (Marla Jane Caram), a housewife from Oakland, California, is on her way to her annual weekend retreat. Doris and George meet across a crowded restaurant dining room and, in a blink, wind up spending the night together. The two connect on a level that goes beyond physical attraction and so they decide to meet each year on the same weekend at the same inn. Over the course of the play -- which unfolds in five-year intervals, beginning in 1951 and ending in 1974 -- we come to know, and care about, Georges wife, Helen, and Doris husband, Harry, as much as we come to know and care about George and Doris. As a nation trembles and changes -- politically, socially, culturally -- so, too, do Doris and George. Lured by a client base whose wealth reaches beyond anything he has known, the upwardly mobile George becomes a financial adviser and moves his family to Los Angeles. But the lifestyle will exact a price and so will the Vietnam War, which changes the liberally minded George in ways he never could have imagined. For her part, Doris, driven by a compelling impulse to shake loose and redefine herself, goes to college, launches her own catering business and, in the end, reckons with the price she, too, has to pay for getting what shes wanted. It is not giving anything away to suggest that by the time Same Time, Next Year has run its course, George and Doris, having gone through their individual rites of passage, come to a place of comfort and peace. Don’t miss NRP’s spring production opening this Friday, May 2nd with a Complimentary wine & cheese Reception at 7:30pm and continuing on Saturday (8pm), Sunday matinee (2pm) and the following two weekends, May 9,10, 16,17 (8pm). All performances can be combined with our “Dinner and a Show” special, a dinner theatre experience in collaboration with Lorenzo’s (Rt 28, Middleboro) 508-947-3000. Three course meal including glass of wine, taxes & gratuities for $20.00 bring receipt to our box office before the show and tickets are only $15.00. For more info about NRP please visit us on Facebook or our website: nemasketriverproductions or call our box office 866 -244-0448 for reservations. Credit card purchases via Brown Paper Tickets through our website.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:00:00 +0000
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