WORDS ON WATER, Friday, October 18

Actors Cynthia Harrington and Nick Dorr

share the joys and tribulations of life in the dunes!

LOVE STORIES coming to Prez Hall on October 3!

Join us on Thursday, October 3 Please join us for this one-time only reading of some of Candace’s favorite stories she’s written about love in its many forms. The actors who will lend their talents as readers include Bob Costa, Cynthia Harrington, Dennis Cunningham, John Dennis Anderson, Jon Kemp, Mary Chris Kenney, and Candace. With musical interludes provided by Fred Magee, the evening promises to be one to remember! Better known locally as a playwright, Wellfleet’s Candace Perry is also a writer of short stories. Her work has been published in The Sun and The Best of The Sun, A Sense of Place, Ms. Magazine, and the Roanoke Review and has been awarded recognition by Story Magazine, Cape Cod Women, and The Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival.

MADE IN HEAVEN at Off Main Gallery!

presents

An Evening of Play Reading and Music: Saturday, AUGUST 31st  6:30 pm 

Bring your beach chairs - food and wine served

A Staged Reading of My Short Play

MADE IN HEAVEN

 with Mary Chris Kenney as Marie Louise Benson

and me as Faye (Mrs. Eugene) McBride 

with music by CUMBERLAND

Jim Rohrer and Lynda Shuster

 

MADE IN HEAVEN performed in church!

Laura Cappello, well known for her magnificent portrayal of Patsy Cline, 

and playwright Candace Perry team up in Heaven!

 

Please join us for this staged reading of my short play

MADE IN HEAVEN

Sponsored by the Nauset UU Fellowship

held at the Chapel in the Pines

220 Samoset Rd, Eastham, MA 02642

Sunday, July 21, 10 am

In MADE IN HEAVEN, each person is matched for all time to their one true love.

Only problem is, some folks don’t much like the match, like Faye (Mrs. Eugene) McBride of Montgomery, Alabama. A traditional, white woman, she discovers that God matched her to Henry, her gardener of many years. Her Black gardener. It’s up to God’s “assistant,” Marie Louise Benson to prove to Faye that God’s matches are never mistaken.

The reading of the play will be followed by refreshments and a discussion.

ALL WELCOME!

MERIDIAN SUMMER at WHAT May 5

The summer of 1964,

three civil rights workers

"go missing" from

Meridian, Mississippi... 

 

Please join us for a free, 

public reading of

  

MERIDIAN SUMMER

Sunday, May 5, 3:00 pm

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

The reading will conclude an intensive weekend workshop of the play with Director Sasha Brätt and actors Darlene VanAlstyne. Rodney Witherspoon II, Amie Lytle, Gigi Watson, Robert St. Laurence, and Jody O’Neil with the playwright, Candace Perry.  The audience is invited to stay after Sunday’s reading to share their reactions to the play.

 

Spring Happenings!

Spring is bringing some exciting theater events for me, and I’d love it if you’d join me for one or all:

• Sunday, May 5 at 3 pm. Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) is presenting a workshop reading of my full length play, MERIDIAN SUMMER.  This is a play dear to my heart, and I’m very excited to be working with WHAT’s actors and director to revise the play and bring new life to it.  The play takes place in Meridian, Mississippi, my mother’s hometown, where, in 1964, the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were planned by people determined to “preserve our way of life.”  We’ll be working on the play on Friday and Saturday, and invite you to join us for the free reading on Sunday afternoon.
• Friday and Saturday, April 26/27 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, April 28 at 3 pm.  Provincetown Dramatic Arts is presenting a collection of short plays by women for their Women’s International Theater Festival.  My play, “La Emergencia (The Emergency)”, was created for the 2019 24 Hour Festival and is being reprised by the terrific cast from that production.  Hint: I wrote the play the day T***p declared the “emergency” at the Mexican/US border.  Performances take place at the WOMR Davis Space, 494 Commercial Street in Provincetown.  Tickets for the production are $15 and will be available at the door.
• Saturday, April 27, 10 am – noon.  The Blue Institute is sponsoring a collection of writing workshops, “Words on Water,” as part of ArtWeek and the institute’s commitment to excellence in water education and research.  I’ll be teaching one on writing the short play.  So, if you’ve ever wanted to write a play, please join us at the Harwich Cultural Center, School House Drive, 204 Sisson Road. To register, go to https://blueinstitute.org/artweek-register-here-1

Please join us April 26 - 28 for the Women's International Theater Festival in Provincetown