The Drama Club is announcing a school wide competition for the design of poster for its upcoming After School Production.
The play is called “Almost Maine” by American actor and playwright John Cariani, and is comprising nine short plays that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine. It premiered at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine in 2004 where it broke box office records and garnered critical acclaim. There are nine short scenes: Her Heart, Sad & Glad, Seeing the Thing, Story of Hope, Where It Went, This Hurts, They Fell, Epilogue, and Prologue.
Research the play; design your own original poster for the show and the winner will see their poster all over the school!!! Submit your entry by November 30th.
Almost, Maine opened Off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theatre on January 12, 2006 and is featured in Smith and Kraus` New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2006 and has proved popular in professional and nonprofessional theatre companies worldwide. It is now the most produced play in North American high schools, recently supplanting Shakespeare`s A Midsummer Night`s Dream.
A New York Times review of a production at TheatreWorks in Hartford in 2013 said: "John Cariani’s Almost, Maine is a series of nine amiably absurdist vignettes about love, with a touch of good-natured magic realism...This is a beautifully structured play, with nifty surprise endings (most but not all of them happy) and passing references to characters from other vignettes, which slyly tell us more about them. Mr. Cariani, describes the play’s subject as ‘falling in and out of love.’ It is just as much about pain.”
Follow this link to see what other productions have created as a poster for the show:
