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

Someone Who'll
Watch Over Me

By Frank McGuinness

Directed by Genevieve Aichele

New Hampshire Theatre Project opens its 2007/08 season with Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness. Inspired by conversations with hostage Brian Keenan who spent 4 and ½ years imprisoned in Beirut, the playwright has fashioned a moving drama about an Irishman, an Englishman and an American who form a close friendship under the appalling strain and monotony of captivity. Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me combines heartrending tragedy and poignant comedy in a theme that is both relevant to current world politics and universally redemptive. On seeing the play for the first time, Brian Keenan himself wrote: “McGuinness hits on love, loneliness and all the gamut of emotions that make us, break us and remake us.”

Genevieve Aichele will direct NHTP veterans Blair Hundertmark and Peter Motson, along with seacoast newcomer, Brian Chamberlain. “I was attracted to this script,” says Aichele, “Because it is a perfect production for NHTP’s intimate black box theatre where the audience experiences intense drama up close and personal. Every time I read this play, the juxtaposition of lyrical beauty in the language with the horrifying situation of the hostages grows more poignant.”

New Hampshire Theatre Project has received rave reviews for its innovative productions of The Odyssey, Mitty!, The Duel and The Elephant Man. The 2007/08 season, with a theme of politics, freedom and personal responsibility, promises to continue this tradition with Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me in November, The Primary Primary!, an original musical spoofing New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation status, in January, and Bertolt Brecht’s political epic Mother Courage & Her Children in May.

Press
	11/21/2007 REVIEW "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" The Wire "Not one of these men act during the two and a half hours. There isn’t a false moment, a false blink, a false breath. Each man, in his own very different way, is bare, naked, raw and real." "Genevieve Aichele... brings you to parts of the world that we try to pretend aren’t there. In her choice of material, her courage is unmatched. She doesn’t so much direct her actors as she puts them into the story. Only, this is no story. This is truth. This is what Aichele does, and she does it with brilliance."
	11/15/2007 REVIEW "'Someone to Watch Over Me' adroitly handled by cast, director" Foster's Daily Democrat, Showcase "The show pulsates to life through the discerning and penetrating talents of the cast...the audience sits as voyeurs -- watching and feeling with brilliant clarity and empathy how the men dealt with being lambs in a world of power-hungry wolves."
	11/1/2007 PREVIEW"Difficult play shows triumph of spirit" The Portsmouth Herald, Spotlight

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me is sponsored by Zachary Berger Associates Landscape Design.