RRP Announces 2024 Season

The Rock River Players (RRP) announce their slate of productions for 2024 which opened with its annual Valentine’s Cabaret.

May 30 to June 2, the Players will present another Evening of One-Acts, produced by RRP’s co-artistic director Amy Donahue and featuring predominantly new works–most by area writers.

July 12 to 14 RRP’s John Moran produces an Evening of Dramatic Narrative Poetry Readings: sharing our human condition as we live, love, and die.

August 9 to 18, the RRP presents Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, based on his experience with his sister’s death. The play is a comedy-drama about the bond among a group of six women honed through joy and tragedy. RRP’s Cris Parker-Jennings directs.

John Moran directs Antigone to run September 13- 14 at the Hooker-Dunham Theater in Brattleboro, and September 20 to 22 at the Players’ home in Williamsville. A tragedy about gender, intergenerational, and authoritarian conflict, the play is as meaningful today as it was when Sophocles wrote it some twenty-five hundred years ago.

Peter Broussard and company will produce a Night of Improv Oct 11 to 13. Broussard urges: “Come see a show that has never been done before and will never be done again. This will be a show that will be improvised on the spot and include a few different improv forms and approaches.”

Jon Mack directs The Maids to run November 1 to 3 in Williamsville and 8 to 9 at the Hooker Dunham. In this intense drama by Jean Genet, sisters Solange and Claire are housemaids. When their mistress (Madame) is away, they take turns role-playing her while the other plays her maid. Feeling abused by Madame and desperate, the sisters attempt extreme actions to escape their subjugation.

The RRP will host monthly improv jams, as well, and occasional craft development workshops.

For more information regarding programs, auditions and how to become involved on stage or off, check our website at www.rockriverplayers.org or contact info@rockriverplayers.org.