September 3, 1998
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.