Screwball Comedy BORN YESTERDAY Comes to Peterborough Players, 8/12-23
The Peterborough Players fifth play of the season is Garson Kanin's acclaimed comedy, BORN YESTERDAY. It debuts Wednesday, August 12th at 7:30pm.
A Broadway triumph, Born Yesterday is a deliciously witty screwball comedy. Millionaire junk-dealer Harry Brock goes to Washington to buy a Senator, and in the process hires a sophisticated writer to polish up his seemingly dim-witted girlfriend, Billie Dawn. Brock soon learns that a little learning can be a dangerous thing. A comedy of men, women and politics that ran for three years on Broadway and made Judy Holliday a star. The author, Garson Kanin, wrote the screenplay for many memorable films including the celebrated Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn films: Adams Rib and Pat & Mike.
BORN YESTERDAY stars many Players' favorites including Karen Peakes (Charley's Aunt, Arms and the Man, The Foreigner, Measure For Measure, The Admirable Crichton), Jack Koenig (Laughing Stock, Present Laughter, Absurd Person Singular, Seagull), Kraig Swartz (Charley's Aunt,The Voysey Inheritance, Absurd Person Singular, The 39 Steps, Intimate Exchanges), Lisa Bostnar (The Circle, The Voysey Inheritance, The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, The Man Who Came To Dinner), Tom Frey (Charley's aunt, The Granite State, The Circle, 2 Hands 4 Pianos, Outside Mullingar), Bridget Beirne (Charley's Aunt, The 39 Steps, The Voysey Inheritance, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, Outside Mullingar), Michael Page (Charley's Aunt, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Circle, The Voysey Inheritance, Outside Mullingar) and Steven Walters (Charley's Aunt, NBC's Friday Night Lights).
The production is directed by Gus Kaikkonen, Artistic Director of the Peterborough Players.
BORN YESTERDAY plays from August 12th to the 23rd. Tickets are $39 each. Students (with proper ID) can purchase tickets one hour before any show for $15. Book your tickets now 603-924-7585 or go to PlayersTix.com and use your MasterCard, Visa or American Express. The theatre is located at 55 Hadley Road in Peterborough, New Hampshire, approximately 90 minutes from Boston.
The Peterborough Players, Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, has been providing professional theatre to audiences since 1933. It has been globally recognized as one of the most important regional theatres in North America. The Wall Street Journal has called the Peterborough Players "American summer repertory theater at its most accomplished." Information about the organization can be found at www.peterboroughplayers.org.
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