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THE OLDEST PROFESSION by Paula Vogel
As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the Life.
THE OLDEST PROFESSION performances are at Sage Inn and Lounge, Provincetown's centrally-located, year-round boutique hotel and intimate Lounge, offering farm-to-table cuisine, herb-infused cocktails, fine wines, and craft beers.
The play is directed by Margaret Van Sant with Clyde Shelby Mellert as the Musical Director and the bordello piano player. The cast brings decades of theatrical talent to their roles - Lynda Sturner*, Jane Macdonald*, Judith Partelow*, Jo Brisbane, and Patricia Fitzpatrick - as they languish in New York, or celebrate themselves in bawdy bordello songs in New Orleans - they are an explosion of talent.
Captures Ms. Vogels most essential gift as a playwright: an ability to find transfixing warmth and vitality in subjects often employed to titillate or repelthis venturesome dramatist provides a transforming theatrical wit, compassion and tolerance that keepstheatregoers hooked. NY Times
Paula Vogel has written HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE (Pulitzer Prize, New York Drama Critics Award, Obie Award, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and many more.) Other plays include A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS, THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME, THE MINEOLA TWINS, HOT N THROBBIN, THE BALTIMORE WALTZ, DESDEMONA, AND BABY MAKES SEVEN, and THE OLDEST PROFESSION.
Her plays have been produced by Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, the Vineyard Theatre, Roundabout, and Circle Repertory Company. Her plays have been produced regionally all over the country at the Center Stage, Intiman, Trinity Repertory, Woolly Mammoth, Huntington Theatre, Magic Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theatre Berkeley Repertory, andAlley Theatres to name a few. Harrogate Theatre and the Donmar Theatre have produced her work in England.
John Simon once remarked that Paula Vogel had more awards than a black sofa collects lint. Some of these include Induction into the Theatre Hall of Fame, Thornton Wilder Award, Lifetime Achievement from the Dramatists Guild, the William Inge Award, the Elliott Norton Award, two Obies, a Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Award, a TCG residency award, a Guggenheim, a Pew Charitable Trust Award, and fellowships and residencies at Sundance Theatre Lab, Hedgebrook, The Rockefeller Centers Bellagio Center, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Bunting.
But she is particularly proud of her Thirtini Award from 13P, and honored by three Awards in her name: the Paula Vogel Award for playwrights given by The Vineyard Theatre, the Paula Vogel Award from the American College Theatre Festival, and the Paula Vogel mentorship program, curated by Quiara Hudes and Young Playwrights of Philadelphia.
Sage Inn and Lounge is located at 336 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA. For more information about Sage, and to make dinner and hotel reservations go to: www.sageinnptown.com.
So come enjoy dinner and a drink and stay for a romping play with song dance about five women in THE OLDEST PROFESSION!
*Member of Actor's Equity Association
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LocationSage Inn and Lounge (View)
336 Commerical Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
United States
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