Theatre continues to make a home of PPL’s Main Reading Room during this year’s Potsdam Summer Festival, themed Small Town, Bright Lights.
While Market Street, and the surrounding downtown area will be a flurry of activity, from two stages of live music on Market Street as well as the music at the gazebo in Ives Park, a cornhole tournament, a beer, wine, and cider tent, laser tag and family fun, to food trucks and local vendors, fireworks and more, PPL will be hosting three days of theatre and readings, beginning Thursday July 14 and ending Saturday July 16, with each production created and curated by local artists.
Additionally, PPL’s Family Literacy Specialist, the Marvelous Maria Morrison, will be over at Fall Island, Friday July 15, doing storytimes.
Below you can find the full schedule of PPL events during Summerfest. We hope to see you out enjoying what PPL and Potsdam, as a whole, has to offer! Checkout the hyperlink above to see the full Summerfest schedule, or visit: https://www.potsdamchamber.com/summerfest2022/
Thursday, July 14:
5:30PM: Two 10-minute plays with musical interludes by guitarist Tom Baker.
Play One: The Book Stealer by Betsy Kepes – starring Maria Morrison, Art Johnson, Ester Katz, Eros Samnarine. An old time minister tries to rid the library of ‘immoral’ books. Could the library become ‘one flew over the cuckoo’s nest?
Play Two: Allowed by Kim Bouchard starring Morgan Hastings and Karen Wells. Edith, the Librarian, frowns upon William reading out loud in the Library. But, William can only read out loud. O, Pioneer! Will it be allowed?
7PM: Spirit Whispers on the Grasse, by local playwrights Mary Egan, Art Johnson and Elaine Kuracina. (50 minute Monologues)
Starring Carole Berard, Jennifer Berbrich, John Berbrich, Jeanne Blake, Derrick Conway, Art Johnson, Esther Katz, Mia Kostka-Hickey, Elaine Kuracina, Aubrey Slaterpryce, Steven Sauter, David Weissbard, Karen Wells .
The true stories of the people who lived at the Canton County home 1880-1950.
Friday, July 15:
10AM: PPL Storytime with Mrs. Morrison at Fall Island.
11AM: PPL Storytime with Mrs. Morrison at Fall Island.
NOON: PPL Storytime with Mrs. Morrison at Fall Island.
1PM: PPL Storytime with Mrs. Morrison at Fall Island.
1PM: Spirit Whispers on the Grasse.
3PM: Two 10-minute plays with musical interludes by guitarist Tom Baker.
5:30PM: Celebrating the Cantos of Dante’s Divine Comedy (30 minute reading).
Memorable lines from Dante’s Comedy (The Inferno) – year of first edition, 1472 AD, using the new English translation by Potsdam resident and retired Professor of Italian Literature Walter Nobile. The audience will hear voices from 700 years ago!! Has anything changed? Accompanied by projections of art from the Divine Comedy.
Saturday, July 16:
1PM: Spirit Whispers on the Grasse.
3PM: Two 10-minute plays with musical interludes by guitarist Tom Baker.
5:30PM: Celebrating the Cantos of Dante’s Divine Comedy.