November 7 & 8 and November 14, 15 & 16
at
Stone Valley Arts in Poultney
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Buy/Reserve your tickets
here.
Don’t delay getting your tickets: this event tends to sell out!
From Ten Minutes to One-Act
Supported by VCF’s Arts & Social Cohesion grant, Theater in the Woods is excited to expand public involvement in the stages of this project:
From Ten Minutes to One-Act
Lead Director Meg Bouchard will guide the development of 2 plays to emerge from our Ten-Minute play writing and reading process. Join us!
We are grateful to our sponsors for their kind support!
The process for 2025: From Ten Minutes to One-Acts
FIRST, the WRITING (September 13-27th)
We always welcome people who have yet to try writing a short play!
The SELECTION
8 plays have been selected for our Ten Minute Plays reading and dinner event in November.
The INITIAL READING (October 4)
To get an inside look at the process of creating and mounting a play, the public came to hear the initial read-throughs in round-robin style.
STAGED READINGS at Stone Valley Arts November 7 & 8, and November 14, 15 & 16
Eight plays read over two weekends by our community actors — four plays the first, four DIFFERENT plays the second. With audience participation during the November readings, two plays will be nominated to be developed into
one-act plays over the winter.
The two one-acts will be fully produced in the spring of 2026.
NEXT UP, the staged readings:
TEN MINUTE PLAYS DINNER THEATER FUNDRAISER
FIRST WEEKEND: Friday/Saturday
NOVEMBER 7 & 8
SECOND WEEKEND: Friday/Saturday/Sunday
NOVEMBER 14, 15 & 16 (Sunday matinee)
Join us at Stone Valley Arts
in Poultney: 145 E. Main St
for new, original community theater!
Eight writers from the theater community.
Actors read four plays each night.
One set of four plays read Friday & Saturday the first weekend;
the other four plays are read Friday, Saturday and Sunday the second weekend.
More opportunities to enjoy dinner, theater, and community!
NOVEMBER 7
FRIDAY’S FARE 5:30 pm
A selection of soups, salads, fresh baked bread AND
Four plays for adults, see below
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NOVEMBER 8
SATURDAY’S SELECTIONS 5:30 PM
An array of soups, salads, fresh baked bread AND
Repeating Friday 11/7’s plays: see below
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NOVEMBER 14
FRIDAY’S FARE 5:30 PM
A selection of soups, salads, fresh baked bread AND
Four DIFFERENT plays for adults, see below
NOVEMBER 15
Saturday’s Selections 5:30 PM
An array of soups, salads, fresh baked bread AND
Repeating Friday 11/14’s plays: see below
NOVEMBER 16
SUNDAY MATINEE at 2 pm
(refreshments offered afterwards)
Repeating Saturday 11/15’s plays: see below
2025 Playwrights & Plays
Note: plays will not necessarily be presented in this order
on their respective weekends.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 & 8
Last Call by Karen Gutmann
Boxed In by Martin Van Buren III
Whole Lotta Woods Out There by Charles Stevens
Lady Balls by Allison Fradkin
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY matinee NOVEMBER 14, 15 & 16
Old Dogs by Herb Childress
Goodnight Nobody by Jeffrey Henebury
How Did You Know Her? by Miriam Lerner
We’ll Cross That Delaware When We Get To It by Tristan Larson
2025 Actors
Robin Chesnut-Tangerman • Herb Childress • Lina Clouffe Hanson • Brad Coupe
Melinda Coupe • Marisa Faller • Sam Filloramo • Sandra Gartner • Roger Grow
Saskia Hagen Groom • Scott Holliman • Kiara Larson • Tristan Larson
Ben Luzader • Jon Mathewson • Beth Miller • Eirinn Moody • Rosemary Moser
Julie Redington • Marshall Squier • Rainbow Squier • Wheaton Squier
Patricia Swayne • Glenn Tarbell • Keaton Tarbell • Emma Weatherhogg
THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF THIS PROJECT!