What do you get when you cross a true crime junkie with an actor who has playwright friends? You get a one-woman show about the most famous jilted bride in literature, Miss Havisham, paired with a modern-day woman who reopens the cold case of Miss H's death in a locked room. It also dives into what it means to choose to be alone, as seen through the eyes of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, and through the lens of the woman he locked up in her own house after her fiancé dumped her on her wedding day. I mean...would we women really choose to stay in the same dress with a rotting cake nearby for 40yrs?
Welcome to (re)Dressing Miss Havisham. Written by Boston-area, internationally-produced playwright John Minigan, featuring Miranda Jonte in the title role, and directed by off-Broadway and regional director Peter Sampieri (also a prof at Salem State), this show has been two years in the making, from NYC to Wayland, and, most recently workshopped in haunted theatre on Cape Cod. Yep, there are two ghosts there.
Selected by Boston Playwrights' Theatre for their inaugural New Play Incubator series (!!!) (re)Dressing MissHavisham will rehearse for one week and run for one week, May 11-24, respectively.
We are raising $12,000 to cover: theatre rental, royalties, director contract, actor contract, stage manager rate, lighting, and publicity. We need and invite YOU to...join the investigation and support us in reaching our goal. We look forward to introducing you to our team and sharing videos so stay tuned for more APBs - that's all points bulletin in police lingo ;)
AND, THANK YOU!
