Join us for a monthly play reading the first Wednesday of every month at Sands Reception 6:30-9:30. This is to explore plays and read for enjoyment and each others’ company.
If you have a script to suggest, or would like to attend the evening please email lorne.seifred@mercuryplayers.org to get a digital copy of the script.
Wednesday Feb 4th we will be reading ‘What I did Last Summer‘ by AR Gurney. Needed are 4W, 2M. This play has been submitted (selfless plug) by myself to be considered for our 2026/27 season.
THE STORY: The setting is a vacation colony on the shores of Lake Erie, 1945, during the final stages of World War II. Charlie, a rebellious fourteen-year-old, is summering with his mother and sister before going off to a boarding school. Although he intended to spend the summer socializing with his friends, the need for spending money forces him to take a job as a handyman for a bohemian art teacher, Anna Trumbull, who has lost both her fortune and her regard for the ideals of her upbringing. Sensing a kindred spirit in Charlie, she tries to stretch his mind by teaching him painting and sculpture—and exposing him to “radical” ideas about life and love. The result is a family crisis – a showdown between Anna and Charlie’s conservative mother. A clash of philosophies raises as many questions as it answers and, in the end, stimulates the self-awareness, which will shape the man Charlie is destined to become.
