Potomac Theatre Project to Perform “Good”

by C.P. Taylor at Middlebury College Center for the Arts

“Potomac Theatre Project makes the flattering

assumption that its audience has brains, then demonstrates the

considerable pleasures of using them.” —The Washington Post

After a dozen years of producing in the Washington,

D.C. area, the Potomac Theatre Project (PTP) will make its first

appearance at the Middlebury College Center for the Arts in three

performances of C.P. Taylor’s “Good.” Performances will

take place at 8 p.m. on Sept. 18 and 19. There also will be a

2 p.m. performance on Sept. 19.

Founded by Middlebury College Associate Professors

of Theatre Cheryl Faraone and Richard Romagnoli and their PTP

Co-Director Jim Petosa, PTP is the professional affiliate of the

College’s theatre program, with over 30 productions to its credit.

Since 1987, more than 100 Middlebury students have received their

first taste of professional theatre as actors, designers, stage

managers and administrators with PTP, working with established

New York and Washington, D.C. area artists. Many return to the

company after graduation as professional artists in their own

right.

In 1995, PTP became the alternative theatre in residence

at the Olney Theatre Center for the Arts in Olney, Md., outside

of Washington, D.C., where Petosa is artistic director.

Directed by Petosa, “Good” charts the descent

of John Halder, a university professor with a tangled domestic

existence and an unsatisfying career, into the moral quicksand

of Hitler’s Germany. The play, set to an ebullient and romantic

musical score, confronts moral ambiguity, the limits of friendship

and the demons of personal failing.

Tickets for this Middlebury College Concert Series

performance are $9.00 general admission and $7.00 for senior citizens.

A pre-performance dinner at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 18 at the Rehearsals

Cafe in the Center for the Arts, which is on South Main Street

(Route 30), is also available. To order tickets or make dinner

reservations, please call the College box office at 802-443-6433.