PERFORMANCE ARCHIVE

2004
Moby Dick – Rehearsed

2005
Resurrection
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Tempest
The Comedy of Errors
The Elephant Man

2006
The Duel
A Woman's Heart
Ernie's Incredible Illuminations
Stage Door
The Odyssey

2007
Mitty!
World Tales II
The Skin of Our Teeth
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

January 4-20, 2008
Fridays	Saturdays	Sundays
04 - 8pm	05 - 8pm	06 - 2pm
11 - 8pm	12 - 2pm 12 - 8pm	13 - 2pm
18 - 8pm	19 - 2pm 12 - 8pm	20 - 2pm
Meet-the-Playwright: Post-Performance discussion, Sunday, January 6. Special Community Forum: The Political Process & You, Sunday, January 13.
Please note: All performances are sold out. If you are interested in being on the waiting list, please call 603/431-6644 x 5. Do not pay for tickets until your reservations have been confirmed in person by phone.
TICKETS $22 adults $15 students & seniors Call 603/431-6644 or email tickets@nhtheatreproject.org to make reservations. PAYMENT Cash and checks made out to NHTP are accepted at the door. Following confirmation of reservation, credit card purchases may be processed online at http://payment.nhtheatreproject.org. DIRECTIONS All Performances are at New Hampshire Theatre Project, 959 Islington Street, Portsmouth Click for Directions

 NEW MUSICAL 
The Primary Primary!
The Nation's Fate is in the Granite State

Book, Music and Lyrics by
Robert John Ford

Directed by
Blair Hundertmark

This coming January 2008, coinciding with the NH presidential primary, New Hampshire Theatre Project of Portsmouth, NH will present the premiere production of the musical comedy The Primary Primary! by playwright, composer and lyricist Robert John Ford. Directed by Blair Hundertmark, this timely and irreverent look at the NH presidential primary was adapted from Ford’s CAUCUS! The Musical which will run simultaneously in Iowa during their presidential caucus.

Hilarious and often politically incorrect, The Primary Primary! takes a celebratory and satirical  look at the NH primaries and how a small New England state plays an oversized role in the presidential nominations process. This full-length musical features 20 characters—from a “typical” NH dairy farm family to the widely-varying candidates who will do anything to win a vote—and 14 original songs including “It’s Time to Go to New Hampshire,” “Anything for a Vote,” “The Tough Question Sidestep,” and “Get Off Your Sorry A-- and Vote!”

The Primary Primary! features a regionally selected cast and will build upon a successful string of NHTP  professional productions including Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, The Odyssey, Mitty! and The Elephant Man. New Hampshire Theatre Project, under the direction of Genevieve Aichele, is a non-profit organization committed to innovative and educational theatre programming that serves as a catalyst for community dialogue and personal transformation. NHTP productions have been described by reviewers as “the real thing, rich in all its elements,” “stunning,“ “magical” and as “delivering some of the finest theater I have seen.”

“When Robert contacted us about this opportunity—doing simultaneous performances at the two first-in-the-nation states—we jumped at the chance,” says Hundertmark. “Robert John Ford is a wonderfully witty playwright whose clever lyrics made me actually laugh out loud during the first five minutes of my initial read through. The local characters are recognizable and the presidential candidates are composites of many of the current and past candidates that have paraded through NH.  More importantly, the play helps us appreciate our unique, and tenuous, hold on the first in the nation primary and the spotlight it puts on NH. We have access to every candidate for months on end, something unheard of in about 48 other states. The Primary Primary! is part Capitol Steps and part Our Town, with a healthy dose of C-Span and Mark Russell! It’s sure to get people talking.”

Press

	1/10/2008 REVIEW As NHTP goes, so goes the theater The Wire "There’s a special place in my heart for each and every theater on the Seacoast, but I have to say, it’s always pleasing to head down to 959 Islington St. in Portsmouth and check out the New Hampshire Theatre Project at West End Studio Theatre. You know that whatever you get will either be gut-wrenchingly fearless, completely original, a fresh take on an old tale or all three." "There is no greater humor than humor based in truth, which is what makes this musical comedy so hilarious."
	1/10/2008 REVIEW 'The Primary Primary' gets our support Seacoast Spotlight "This show is simple, fun and funny. 'The Primary Primary' is a good choice to cure your campaign blues... Check it out!"
	1/10/2008 REVIEW 'Primary Primary' part Capitol Steps, part Mark Russell and a smidge N.H. Crossroads Foster's Showcase "'The Primary Primary!' is as astute as it is audacious. And there is perhaps no better organization to stage such intellectual irreverence than the Seacoast's PBesque-playhouse, New Hampshire Theatre Project." "Director Blair Hundertmark has assembled an ensemble cast from among the region's most talented performers, tapping actors from Youth Rep to Equity. With these performers singing snappy songs like, "Anything for a Vote," "I Need that Man," and "The Tough Question Sidestep," audiences are in for a rollicking good time."
	1/9/2008 REVIEW Electioneering: Lampooning the theater that is politics Portland Phoenix "[The] candidates are uproarious and immaculately acted composites of the nation’s political figures, past and present." "This must-see show likens the whole rancorous citizenry to a family, one that disagrees but that can nevertheless hold a conversation, and that can learn, for its own good, the art of compromise."
	1/8/2008 RADIO Director Blair Hundertmark & Playwright Robert John Ford NH Public Radio's The Exchange