Motley Theater is ready to go to dinner

As many people know, there is no better way to start something, than to kick it right in the butt with a winner - right off!!! That is what the Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts 25th Anniversary this year will be doing. Our very first event is the always popular "Motley Play Reading". This event comes from a long standing group called Motley Theatre where Anna MacKay-Smith and Kenneth Welsh would bring in special guests, actors who are Canadian up-and-commers and seasoned well-knowns, and they would do a play reading.

Yes that is different from a theatre show, and I know that I am stating the obvious. It is a play reading, as the performers sit, but sometimes not, with script in hand, reading through the play. It is in NO WAY boring, or predictable, it is so amazing that within 5 minutes, you are so wrapped up in the performance, that you don't even see the book in their hands. Minimal props and staging and it is brilliant.

WELLLL - again the Motley Play Reading with start the Celebration with the play reading of a piece that received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2000, "Dinner with Friends" by Donald Margulies. Anna MacKay-Smith will again grace us with her skill and experience on stage, however as of todays date, no other performers have been announced.

It will be on Thursday September 16th at 8pm at the Uxbridge Music Hall. The tickets are $20 at the door, or can be purchased at Blue Heron Books OR Presents Presents, both located on Brock St., Uxbridge.

SO come out to the first of the events for the Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts - heck, come out to all of them. Can I hear an audible "Wow".