Westport Community Theatre is participating once again in the town of Westport's First Night celebrationson December 31 with "The Hippo and the Wasps," a one-act comedy by Connecticut playwright Tom Rushen, directed by Richard Mancini and featuring Alexander Kulcsar and Ann Kinner. Garner and Darian Case are a happily married couple living in upper class Connecticut suburbia. While they seem to have a perfect life, it becomes a bit undone when they are trapped inside their home by a hippopotamus that has camped out on their front lawn.
The one-act will be performed at WCT in the Westport Town Hall at 5:00 PM, 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM; go to www.firstnightww.com for the complete schedule of events. Alexander Kulcsar (Garner Case) has performed with many area companies, including Square One Theatre (where he won the Subscribers Award for "Best Actor" four times, most recently as David O. Selznick in 2009's Moonlight & Magnolias), Town Players (Newtown), Eastbound Theatre (Milford), Putney Players (Stratford), and Westport Community Theatre, where he was last seen as Orson Welles in Orson's Shadow; he performed his one-man show, The Wurrld According to Dooley, for Bare Bones Theater at the Pequot Library and at Westport Community Theatre and Square One Theatre (www.mrdooley.com). Ann Kinner (Darian Case) Previous Westport Community Theatre productions include the theatre's next show, Ice Glen, as well as The Best Man, Separate Tables, Sherlock's Last Case, Vanities, Everything in the Garden, and The Turn of the Screw. Connecticut audiences have seen her in Square One Theatre productions including Moonlight & Magnolias, Rutherford & Son, and The Heiress, for which Ann received the Subscriber's Outstanding Actress Award. Television credits include a six-year recurring role as the Roadside Bar waitress on All My Children, and film credits include the lead role in the upcoming independent film Doing Agatha and roles in the 2010 feature films Camp Hope and All Good Things.Videos