The Intentional
Theatre
First Annual International Short Play Festival -
2006
"The Secret", by Lyn Halper of Scarsdale New York, asks the question "Truth or Dare" of two friends Jane and Louise, on their commute home from work. "What, are we seventeen year-old?" asks Jane, but Louise persists until Jane reveals her secret. When it's Louise's turn, she needs a little coaxing from Jane, but what she divulges could rip their friendship apart.
For
those familiar with the game, neither Truth nor Dare offers an easy path,
and a Dare can easily get you into embarrassing trouble. But Truth
is a slippery animal, sometimes impossible to grasp and hold tightly.
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About the Play
Jane (Emma Palzere-Rae, left) and Jane (Susan Maguire, right) explore long-hidden truths that test their friendship. What starts as a same-old commute home takes an unexpected turn when a a frightening secret is revealed. Or is it?
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Emma Palzere-Rae has appeared on New York stages and in summer stock and regional theaters around the country. She, her husband and 2 boys relocated to Groton three years ago when she assumed the role of Executive Director for the Chorus of Westerly. Emma also tours as Emily Dickinson and Harriet Beecher Stowe in original one-woman plays and is currently working on another about 1872 presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull.
Susan Zizza Maguire, mom and soprano with the Chorus of Westerly, has worked locally with the Granite and Colonial Theaters. Formerly, she was a professional theatre actor in the Boston area, performing roles ranging from Prudence in Beyond Therapy to Aldonza in Man of La Mancha. She worked extensively with the Forum Theatre Ensemble and Worcester Foothills Theatre.
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About the Playwright
Lyn Halper's poetry and prose has been published in fine literary and commercial magazines, and she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004 by Fiction International.
Her one-act play, The Walls Sing, was sponsored for production by Westchester Council on Crime & Delinquency. Her play, The Secret, was produced and performed by Heartland Theatre Company in Illinois for their spring festival 2006.
She is formerly a professor of Religious Studies at Rockland Community College of SUNY, and currently Director of APRC, Anomalous Phenomena Research Center, a parapsychology institute.
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