The Darien Players

Our 30th Season

2009 - 2010 Season Productions

A Month In The Country

By Ivan Turgenev

Directed by Jeanine DeFalco

Mar. 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27 at 8pm Mar. 14, 21 at 2pm

Natalya Petrovna, once wooed and won over by the rich landowner Arkady Sergeyevich, has now suffered a long and frustrating marriage. She has taken comfort in the love of Michel, a family friend, but even he has come to represent the same kind of boredom Natalya finds with her doting husband. Instead, it is Aleksey, her son's dashing twenty-one-year-old tutor, whom Natalya now desires. Natalya's beautiful and energetic ward Vera, though, can't help but compete for Aleksey's affections, being so close to him in age. How to position herself between Aleksey and Vera, then, becomes Natalya's obsession during the hot summer days, and when she learns that a neighboring landowner wants to marry Vera, Natalya seizes the chance to remove the only obstacle between her and seducing away the young Aleksey. Heartbreaking though the consequences may be for Vera—her suitor, you see, is almost 60—Natalya goes to increasingly dangerous ends to encourage the match while simultaneously wooing Aleksey. Risking her home, her marriage and even the only man who's ever sworn to stand by her, proves to be too much.

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Cast
Holly Aladin, Nancy Anderson, Annalisa DiNucci, Jessie A. Gilbert, Larry Greeley, Peter Green, William Gross, Christopher Luongo, Raymond G. Michaud, Glenn Packman, Rachel Rothman-Cohen, & Jeffrey Wright II,

Go Back For Murder

By Agatha Christie

Directed by Joel Fenster

May 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22 at 8pm May 9, 16 at 2pm

Before dying in prison for supposedly poisoning her husband fifteen years ago, Caroline Crale wrote her daughter Carla that she was clearly innocent. Carla aided by Justin Fogg - who as a young solicitor fell in love with Caroline - persuades those present that fatal day to return to the scene when Aymas Crale is painting Elsa, his latest infatuation. There are: Philip and Meredith Blake; Elsa, now Lady Melksham; Angela Warren, Carokine's stepsister - a child then; and Angela's governess.