A REVIEW OF PAYOMET'S FULL 2008 SEASON SCHEDULE- LOOK TO PAYOMET IN 2009 FOR A COMPARABLE AND EQUALLY EVENTFUL LINE-UP OF PROGRAMMING IN THE PERFORMING ARTS!

THEATRE The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt Directed by Daisy Walker Sun-Mon-Tues June 23 -July 22 Curtain 8pm. Tix, $25. Regular discounts apply. Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Rarely staged on a regional level, Durrenmatt’s dark comedy of revenge and greed endures as a classic of the 20th century. Payomet's production, directed by Daisy Walker, brings one of the finest and - with 12 actors - largest casts of professional actors that the Outer Cape has seen in many years. Stars Florence Phillips as Klare Zachanassian and Ray McDavitt as Anton Schill. An Actors Equity Production. The Tempest by William Shakespeare Directed by Eric P. Holm and performed by Shakespeare on the Cape Curtain 8pm. The most exciting recent development in this region's theatre scene is the emergence of the gifted young troupe of actors: Shakespeare on the Cape. Every Wed-Thursday, July 2-Sept. 4 at 8pm (also a special Saturday, July 12 performance) Tix, $25. Regular discounts apply. Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Recent graduates of the prestigious theatre training program at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, these professional young actors have consistently wowed audiences from Provincetown to Wellfleet and beyond with their breathtaking stagings of Moliere's School for Wives, Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet, among others. Payomet is thrilled to have them on stage for our 10th anniversary season with their production of what many consider the Bard's greatest play -The Tempest, a masterpiece of magic, mixups, monsters and great comedic moments. Don't miss it! KiddieShakes - Every Wednesday, July 9-Sept. 3 at 5pm Shakespeare on the Cape's one hour version of the magical masterpiece, The Tempest, specially designed and performed for children. (Adults will like it, too!) Tix $9. Discounts available for families, birthdays, or any good reason. Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Gloves Off Nabokov vs. Wilson Written and Directed by Kevin Rice 4 weeks only, August 3–Aug 26 Curtain 8pm. Special additional performance on Saturday August 23rd at 8pm- Includes a “Talk Back” after the performance with the writer and director Kevin Rice. Tix $25. Curtain @ 8 pm. Tix, $25. Regular discounts apply. Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Critics are raving about Gloves Off! Read what the Banner Newspaper and The Cape Cod Times have to say.Set in a boxing ring, this is a heavyweight comedy in 15 rounds, with literary giant Vladimir Nabokov facing off against critic Edmond Wilson. A cast of 9 actors in a professional Actors Equity production include: Bruce Bierhans, Casey Clarke, Robert Costa, Jed Foley, Nicholas Gulde, Garry Mitchell, Emily Murray, Kevin Rice, Nathanial Hall Taylor. Gloves Off! Was named one of the Cape's best plays during its initial 4-performance run at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. . Benefit for Payomet Performing Arts & Castle Hill: Some Like It in the Rough Payomet’s Golf Festival ! Sept 25, 26, 27 Tix, $25. Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 THURS FRI SAT @ 8 PM Short plays, poetry and music—riffing on the art, science & pathos of America’s second-favorite sport–golf. Payomet’s Golf Festival will culminate in a Benefit Golf Tournament for Payomet & Castle Hill Center for the Arts, on SUN Sept 28 Back to Page Top FRIDAY NIGHT FILMS Meet the Top Documentary Filmakers in the United States Portrait Of A Coast, 21st Century Director: James Gabriel June 13 and 14 – 7pm Regular Screening General Admission Single Ticket $10.00 Student, Teachers, Seniors, Truro Residents & Union Members $5.00 Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 James Gabriel's recent remake of his stunningly beautiful story of our ever-shifting Outer Cape coastline. June 13th will be a co-fundraiser for Provincetown's Center for Coastal Studies and Payomet, tix $35 (includes a champagne toast). A discussion after the screening will feature Jim Gabriel and Graham Giese, senior scientist at Provincetown’s Center for Coastal Studies. June 13 Benefit Screening– 7pm At Home In Utopia A Provincetown Film Festival Selection! Director: Michal Goldman June 20 – 7pm Regular Screening Tix, $12. Payomet’s regular discounts do not apply to the screening of this film. Payomet is screening this film as part of the Provincetown Film Festival. Tickets on Sale through the Provincetown Film Festival’s Box Office: ptownfilmfest.org A home of one's own… But what happened when the dreamers were poor Jewish immigrants, factory garment workers and Communists? In the 1920s they pooled their resources to build four cooperatively owned apartment complexes (the Coops) in the Bronx, seeking to create a modern utopia. What they found was something else. Director Michal Goldman, founder and President emerita of the Filmmakers Collaborative in Boston, will attend the screening and discussion to follow. American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land Directed by Jasmine Dellal Truth and Justice for Some Series June 27 – 7pm Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 General Admission Single Ticket $10.00 Student, Teachers, Seniors, Truro Residents & Union Members $5.00 “You keep to yourselves to remain pure, and as soon as you go into the non-Gypsy world you are entering a danger zone.” - quote from the film There are one million Gypsies in the United States. That's “Gypsy” spelled with a capital “G,” a group that is also ethnically referred to as Roma. Never before has a camera been allowed to explore their world. Shot over the course of five years, this feature documentary tells the story of Jimmy Marks, a Rom and Romani community leader whose fight for his civil rights exposes him to double jeopardy: first, from the dominant white culture and, second, from his own people, as he defies the hush-hush conventions of the Roma. Director Jasmine Dellal, who also made the film Gypsy Caravan, attends. For more info, go to www.americangypsy.com Women of Faith Directed by Rebecca Alvin Truth and Justice for Some Series July 11 – 7pm Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 General Admission Single Ticket $10.00 Student, Teachers, Seniors, Truro Residents & Union Members $5.00 Through interviews with nuns, former nuns, and a female priest, filmmaker Rebecca Alvin examines the choice to lead a profoundly religious life in the post-feminist era. Alvin explores the world of nuns the same way she examined sex workers in her 2001 film, 'Our Bodies, Our Minds' --- letting them speak for themselves. Interviewees include several active and contemplative nuns, a former lesbian nun, and a woman who became an illicit Roman Catholic priest in the face of possible excommunication. The film, just finished, has been six years in the making, and was shot in New York, Washington, D.C., and Cape Cod. Alvin will attend the screening and panel discussion to follow. Banished Directed by Marco Williams Truth and Justice for Some Series July 18 – 7pm Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 General Admission Single Ticket $10.00 Student, Teachers, Seniors, Truro Residents & Union Members $5.00 For more info, see www.banishedthefilm.com From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America violently expelled all their African American families, forcing thousands to abandon their homes. Today, a hundred or more years later, these communities remain all-white, their shameful history unspoken --- until now. Banished was an official 2007 selection of the Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker Marco Williams attends screening and discussion after. Provincetown USA Documentary Film by Seth Rolbein July 25th –7pm General Admission Single Ticket $10.00 Student, Teachers, Seniors, Truro Residents & Union Members $5.00 Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 The year, 1989. The town, Provincetown. For a full year, documentary filmmaker Seth Rolbein tracks the lives of four residents. The result wins awards across the country, and sparks controversy for years to come. For the first time in almost 20 years, the documentary will be screened again. A panel discussion, Provincetown–Then and Now follows the screening. Artist Jay Critchley, one of the film’s subjects, will join Seth Rolbein. The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo Directed by Amy Stechler August 1 – 7pm Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 General Admission Single Ticket $10.00 Student, Teachers, Seniors, Truro Residents & Union Members $5.00 A life of extremes against a backdrop of revolution Nearly 50 years after her death, Frida Kahlo is acclaimed as one of the great painters of the 20th century, but it is her personal story that has made her a legend. She lived a life of extremes against a backdrop of intense political, social, and artistic revolution. She had a complicated relationship with her husband, the philandering muralist Diego Rivera, and a tormented one with her own body as a result of polio and a horrific bus accident that crippled her at the age of 19. Vividly evoking the turbulence of the Mexican Revolution and the wildfire of communism that burned through Latin America in the 1920s and 30s, replete with the artists and innovators who came into Kahlo's sphere, The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo recounts how the Mexican painter came be a figurehead of pride in Latino culture, and a symbol of empowerment for women, for artists, and for the disabled. Greensboro: Closer to the Truth Directed by Adam Zucker Truth and Justice for Some Series August 8 – 7pm Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 General Admission Single Ticket $10.00 Student, Teachers, Seniors, Truro Residents & Union Members $5.00 Five members of the Communist Workers Party are killed in broad daylight by the Ku Klux Klan. Though the murders are captured by TV news cameras, no one is ever convicted of the crime. The Greensboro Massacre haunts the survivors, Klansmen and the city of Greensboro for a quarter of a century, with no hope of resolution. This film also documents the first use of a Peace and Reconciliation Commission in the U.S. Filmmaker Adam Zucker, whose work has been shown on HBO, NBC and PBS, attends the screening and discussion to follow. For more info, www.greensborothemovie.com Holler Back: (Not) Voting in an American Town Directed by Lulu Friesdat Truth and Justice for Some Series August 15 – 7pm Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 General Admission Single Ticket $10.00 Student, Teachers, Seniors, Truro Residents & Union Members $5.00 First-time filmmaker Lulu Friesdat captures voter (and non-voter!) anger at a corrupt and unresponsive system. The film -- which recently won First Prize at the 2008 Sunscreen Festival -- examines what motivates people to become involved (or not) in U.S. elections. The film digs into the underbelly of American democracy and gives voters (and non-voters!) a chance to HOLLER BACK on the eve of the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Friesdat will attend screening and discussion to follow. For more info, see HollerBackFilm.com The American Civil Liberties Union Directed by Lawrence Hott Truth and Justice for Some Series August 22 – 7pm Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 General Admission Single Ticket $10.00 Student, Teachers, Seniors, Truro Residents & Union Members $5.00 For eighty years, one legal organization has supported the rights of the individual against the majority and the government, igniting rage in conservatives and liberals alike. That organization is the ACLU, and it has virtually transformed our national ideal of liberty. Its history reads like a case study of freedoms of expression and minority rights in the 20th century. This film traces the tumultuous history of that organization. Lawrence R. Hott and Diane Garey, who will attend this screening and discussion, have been producing award-winning documentary films since 1978. Their awards include an Emmy for Outstanding Historical Programming, two Academy Award nominations, a George Foster Peabody Award, five American Film Festival Blue Ribbons, fourteen CINE Golden Eagles, screenings at Telluride, and first-place awards from the San Francisco, Chicago, National Educational and New England Film Festivals. New Orleans Short Films Truth and Justice for Some Series Friday, Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend at 6pm. August 29 – 31, @6pm Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 General Admission Single Ticket $10.00 Student, Teachers, Seniors, Truro Residents & Union Members $5.00 Short Films by New Orleans residents documenting Hurricane Katrina Curated by Maia Harris, these films are directed by New Orleans artists: Neil Alexander, Courtney Egan, Helen Hill,Luisa Dantes, and Royce Osborn. Katrina–Three Years and Counting, is sponsored by Tickets Reservations $25 Tickets for all theatre productions. $10 Tickets for all films. (except June 13 and 20th) $9 Tickets for all kids summerstage performances. Music- prices vary Seating is General Admission Doors Open 1/2 hour before Performances Payomet Discount: $5 off ticket price for Students and Teachers, Seniors, Union Members, and Outer Cape Voters. Applies to Film & Theatre events only. Online In Person Payomet Box Office 29 Old Dewline Road North Truro, MA 02652 Box Office Phone 508-487-5400 Mail: Payomet Performing Arts Center Box 1202, Truro, MA 02666 Business Phone 508-487-2300 Kevin Rice, Artistic Director Back to Page Top SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC AND MORE The Most Eclectic Sounds the Outer Cape has Ever Heard John Jorgenson Quintet June 28 – 8pm Tix $20 Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 The John Jorgenson Quintet features guitarist John Jorgenson, a founding member of the Desert Rose Band, the Hellecasters, and six-year member of Elton John's band. Artists ranging from Barbra Streisand to Bonnie Raitt to Earl Scruggs have sought out Jorgenson's guitar work.  Recently, John Jorgenson was chosen to portray Django Reinhardt in the feature film Head in the Clouds. John Jorgenson is known as one of the pioneers of the American gypsy jazz movement.  He has performed as a solo artist as well as collaborated with other musicians all over the world.  His articles and lessons on gypsy jazz have appeared in prominent guitar magazines and he has given master classes around the country, and he has performed with some of the most respected European proponents of this style, Bireli Lagrene and Romane. Patty Larkin Benefit Concert for Payomet. $30.00 General Admission $50.00 Preferred Seating + After Party with Patty Larkin! July 5 – 8pm If you’ve never seen her in concert, don’t miss this opportunity. Hers is a musical performance on a whole other level! Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Legendary songwriter, singer and acoustic guitarist, Patty Larkin has been called “riveting” by the Chicago Tribune, “hypnotic” by Entertainment Weekly and “drop-dead brilliant” by Performing Songwriter. Patty's new album, Watch The Sky, is getting raves all around: “Profound results… richly contemplative” (New York Times), “Masterful” (Billboard), and “Gripping” (Boston Globe), “One of America’s Most Distinctive Guitarists” (Associated Press). Cape Cod Opera Songs for a Summer Night July 19 – 8pm Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Concert @8pm. Doors open 7:30. 25.00 Advance, $30.00 day of event. Not just a night at the opera, but “Songs for a Summer Night” will fill the Truro night air on July 19th. Payomet is proud to present performers from the renowned Cape Cod Opera for an evening of songs, arias, duets and quartets from the world of Opera, Operetta, and Musical Theatre. Gorgeous melodies from composers Bizet, Bernstein, Mozart, Sondheim and more in a unique program of equal parts beauty, tragedy, comedy and soul. Erin McKeown July 26th – 8pm $20.00 General Admission $30.00 Preferred Seating in the first three rows of the tent. Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 From pop and folk-punk to rock, sweet electronics to swing, Erin McKeown has been wowing audiences nationwide with her prolific and diverse styles “executed with more intuition and charm than many latter-day stars.” (USA TODAY) Sebastian Junger and Willy and the Po Boys August 2 – 7pm, doors open 6:45. $30 General Admission (includes Po Boy sandwich & coffee) $40.00 Preferred Seating in the first three rows of the tent.   Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 A unique night - Sebastian presents for the first hour on his travels with American troops in Afghanistan. After a break featuring Po Boy sandwiches, Sebestian performs on harmonica with his group, Willy and the Po Boys. Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams August 9 – 8pm. $20.00 General Admission $30.00 Preferred Seating in the first three rows of the tent. Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 The music of Slambovia has been described as psychedelia folkpop, alt-country roots-rock, and “surreal Americana”. Their celebrated new release FLAPJACKS FROM THE SKY continues to invoke waves of enthusiastic response from music fans worldwide. Dancing freely between existing religious and philosophical mythologies, their music is not only uplifting and empowering but fun–a lot of fun. Ingrid Lucia and the Flying Neutrinos return to the Cape!  Saturday, August 30 @8:00pm Tix $25 general admission, 35 preferred. New Orleans blues, jazz, and swing music.  Ingrid hails from the famous "Flying Neutrinos family" which lived on a raft in Provincetown harbor for many years.  Ingrid returns home now with her band by the same name and a world-wide reputation as one of the hottest sounds out of New Orleans. Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Blend New Orleans blues, jazz, and swing music.  "The Flying Neutrinos: one of the most ecstatic quintets to emerge from New Orleans in recent memory." The Village Voice - Voices Choices   "Imagine a lady with a voice like Billie Holliday, playing with the finest jazz/blues band around, using the most modern studio techniques. Class, quality - 11 out of 10! Aaaargh! This is absolutely red hot!"   - London's Sunday Sun "Ingrid is a woman at the height of her powers. She's got it. And then she sings like Billie Holliday without even trying and you wonder how men stay married when there are women like Ingrid around."   - Ireland's Sunday Independent "There are times when Ingrid Lucia and the Flying Neutrinos' album "I'd Rather Be in New Orleans" is enticing enough to make even a staunch New Yorker feel homesick for the Big Easy."  - The Washington Post Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas August 31 – 8pm doors open 7:30 Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 $30.00 General Admission $45.00 Preferred Seating in the first three rows of the tent. The music of Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas is "like white lightning" that reaches your heart and soul and makes you want to move and groove, and is the expression of a remarkable family. Nathan William’s down-home parables are delivered with surprising musical turns and a distinctive Caribbean lilt, uplifting, new music that remains connected to its place in history. Direct from Yakutsk Russia The Khatylaevs/Siberian Heat September 13 – 8:00 pm Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Concert Location:  United Methodist Church, 246 Main Street, Wellfleet Doors open 7:30pm. Tickets $25.  Including After party with Khatylaevs, $35. Direct from Yakutsk, “the gateway to Siberia.” World music (and instruments!) like you’ve never heard. The Khatylaevs kick off their first major U.S. tour at Payomet, ending three months later with a concert in New York City. If you thought the Tuvans had the market cornered on throat singing, think again! Concert at 8 pm. The Khatylaevs will heat up the fall night air in Wellfleet on Saturday, September 13.  They are acclaimed throughout Russia and Europe for their unique folk music --- a mix of original and traditional Siberian songs --- that features a unique style of throat-singing and performances on exotic native instruments including the khomuz (mouth harp) and the kyrympa (a type of string-bowed fiddle). Their appearance at the United Methodist Church on Main Street in Wellfleet will mark their first public concert North America and will kick off their tour that will take them through the United States and Mexico for the next three months, ending with a concert in New York City on November 21. The performing trio is made up of Klavdia and German Khatylaev and Maria Osipova, all members of the native Sakha-Yakut tribe of Siberia.  For more photos and to listen to a sample of their music online, go to khatylaev.sakhaopenworld.org KIDS SUMMERSTAGE 2008 Events for Children and Families Back to Page Top Kiddieshakes The Tempest Tix $9. Come early and have a snack.. EVERY WED, JULY 9 – SEPT 3 at 5 pm A one-hour rendition of a magical classic. Specially staged for children by Shakespeare on the Cape Wayne Martin Puppets July 15- Showtime @5pm. Tix $9. Come early and have a snack.. Wayne Martin Puppets presents “Strings Attached!” Wayne Martin returns to the tent this year with his fun and frolicsome band of puppets for a delightful late afternoon entertainment. Comedy and pathos, vignettes of human emotions and fantasy, set against a backdrop of dramatic lighting and theatrical effects. No matter what age and no matter what language you speak, this show will keep everyone clinging to the edge of your seat and clucking with laughter. Steve Charney & The Amazing Harry August 3 - Showtime @5pm. Single Ticket $9 Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Zany music, magic, & ventriloquism. "An absolutely perfect sense of humor..." - The New Yorker. Harwich Junior Players August 5 & 19 Showtime @5pm. Single Ticket $9 Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Harwich Junior Players The most acclaimed children’s theatre comes to the tent for interactive storytelling with the audience. Marcus the Magician August 12 - Showtime @5pm. Single Ticket $9 Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Back by popular demand! Magic, mystery and illusions will produce laughter, memories and animals! under the big top. Seaside Clowns August 22 – 4pm Payomet Box Office: 508-487-5400 Single Ticket $9 Bring in the clowns! The whole family will fall in love with the antics of these veterans of the Barnum and Bailey’s Ringling Brothers Circus. Special Events - Free Cape Cod Storytelling Every Saturday morning 11-11:30 July 5-August 30 With Storyteller Moriah Vecchia. Stories are Free. Walking Tour of the former North Truro Air Force Base. Every Thursday at 2 in July and August. Meet at the tent! Learn about the role the area played in the Cold War past, as well as the exciting plans to transform it into a science, arts and education center atop the dramatic seacliffs of the Cape Cod National Seashore! Tour is Free, No reservations required. “The Wonders of the Wind” --- Highlands Fest 2008 Join us on on Saturday, July 12 for a daylong celebration of the 110-acre site of the former North Truro Air Force base. This year’s theme is wind and the fest features film, music, theatre and giant sculptures that focus on wind in all its power, beauty (and renewability!). Free daytime events start at 9am with a screening of “Portrait of a Coast, 21st Century.” Complimentary coffee and donuts will be served. Bring friends, bring a bag lunch, bring a desire to learn and have some fun. Authentic Cape Cod Clambake- A Benefit for Shakespeare on the Cape & Payomet September 14, 2008 Location:  Edgewood Farm, Rt. 6, Truro Tickets are $100* and include a final 2pm performance at the Payomet tent of SOTC's acclaimed production of The Tempest, The bake will be a piece of theatre all its own --- done Wampanoag-style with seaweed and hot rocks working their magic over layers of lobster, shellfish, sausage, corn and vegetable crudités.  The food will melt in your mouth! Schedule of the day's festivities: 2pm Final Performance of SOTC’S The Tempest at the Payomet tent. 4:30pm Edgewood Clambake at Edgewood Farm, Rt. 6, Truro. Entertainment after the bake will feature a World Music performance. For those who wish to attend only the final performance of The Tempest, tickets are $30.  Space is limited.