The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse winds up its season of Monday Night Specials (play readings featuring professional actors) with two new works. On Monday, Sept. 1, the Playhouse presents a comedy/drama by Avram Ludwig, movie producer (Swingers) and actor. The Same Boat will tread some familiar ground for Vineyard audiences as the action takes place on a sailboat headed to the Island. A staid Connecticut couple’s life is shaken up when a bohemian young woman enters the picture. The reading is at 7:30 pm at the M.V. Playhouse on Church Street in Vineyard Haven. Admission is $25.
Another work with a similar title — but very different subject matter — will be presented on Saturday, August 30 at 4 pm, also at the Playhouse, also $25. The Same Man compares the lives and work of two of our greatest contemporary authors — George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh. The play is written by attorney/author David M. Lebedoff and based on his critically acclaimed book of the same name. Mr. Lebedoff, a former treasurer of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, has written a number of other nonfiction books covering topics from partisan politics to the Exxon Valdez disaster.
Both plays will be followed by Q&As with the playwrights. For more information, call 508-696-6300 or visit mvplayhouse.org.
