Playwright Festival honors Tom Stoppard/The Real Thing runs October 17-27

[Seaside Rep Theatre]

2007 Autumn Playwright Festival
featuring The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard

Sponsored by the St. Joe Company2007 Season sponsored by Design and Design Services of Florida

An Autumn Tides Event sponsored by the Beaches of South Walton

Wednesdays through Saturdays, October 17 - 27
Seaside Meeting Hall Theatre
Scroll down for complete schedule.

The 2006 Playwright Festival Honoree is Tom Stoppard, the Academy-Award winning screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love , the author of three Tony Award-winning plays, including The Real Thing, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and Travesties, and is the genius behind such critical and box office successes as The Invention of Love, Arcadia, and the masterful trilogy The Coast of Utopia.

Our feature presentation is the winner of the 1984 Tony Award for Best Play and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Revival, The Real Thing . This intellectually and emotionally engaging backstage comedy portrays an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright whose second wife is trying to merge worthy causes with her art as an actress. Making extensive use of the "play within the play," The Real Thing is a tour de force that is at once funny, heartwarming, original, and intelligent.

"So packed with wit, ideas and feelings ... Stoppard's most moving play and the most bracing play anyone has written about love and marriage in years." - N.Y. Times.

"Shimmering, dazzling theatre, a play of uncommon wit and intelligence which not only thoroughly delights but challenges and illuminates our lives." WCBS TV.

Winner of the 1984 Tony Award for Best Play and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Revival.


Autumn Playwright Festival Schedule

Wednesday, October 17
Members-Only Pre-show Event 5:30pm $20
Members-Only opening night of The Real Thing with post-show Q&A 7:30pm $20

Thursday, October 18
The Real Thing with post-show Q&A 7:30pm $24/$20 Member

Friday, October 19
The Real Thing with post-show Q&A 7:30pm $24/$20 Member

Saturday, October 20
The Real Thing with post-show Q&A 7:30pm $24/$20 Member

Monday, October 22
Film - Shakespeare in Love 7:30pm $5

Tuesday, October 23
Stoppard Staged Readings/Discussion7:30pm Free

Wednesday, October 24
The Real Thing with post-show Q&A 7:30pm $24/$20 Member

Thursday, October 25
The Real Thing with post-show Q&A 7:30pm $24/$20 Member

Friday, October 26
The Real Thing with post-show Q&A 7:30pm $24/$20 Member

Saturday, October 27
The Real Thing with post-show Q&A 7:30pm $24/$20 Member



All events take place in the meeting hall theatre.


For tickets: 850.231.0733 or www.seasiderep.org

[savvytangerine]

I can't believe it is just around the corner!

Looking forward to it!

[hoover_rc]

Hey everybody....

Just a reminder that THE REAL THING opens tomorrow night... It is a fantastic show unlike anything you've ever seen at the Rep... Smart, sexy, heartwarming and funny...

[Jdarg]

Can't wait!

[Jdarg]

I was standing outside the Seaside Rep tonight when the play let out. Every single person that walked out that door was raving about this play.

I can't wait to see it!!

[Miss Kitty]

I was standing outside the Seaside Rep tonight when the play let out. Every single person that walked out that door was raving about this play.

I can't wait to see it!!

Can we go some night next week?

[Jennifer Steele]

I was standing outside the Seaside Rep tonight when the play let out. Every single person that walked out that door was raving about this play.

I can't wait to see it!!

Thanks to DargVader! He's the best running "crew" we've every had. Poor guy had to come out on stage pre-show and re-build the house of cards in front of a full house after someone (other than me) accidentally knocked it down!

Jdarg and Bdarg - thanks for making such a great kid! Love him!

[goofer44]

Mrs. G and I went to the opening night celebration. The pre-theater coctail party was funn and delicious. Now to the play......I give it 2 BIG THUMBS UP !! The acting was superb, as it always is, and Craig did fabulous directing. The Seaside Rep needs everyone's support. It is one of the great resources in our area. Just think if every member on this message board sent in $10, that would raise tens of thousands of dollars. Let's all do our part and send in a donation or better yet become a member. Let's not think the theater will always be here, because without local support it could disappear, which is something no one would want.

[Jdarg]

Thanks to DargVader! He's the best running "crew" we've every had. Poor guy had to come out on stage pre-show and re-build the house of cards in front of a full house after someone (other than me) accidentally knocked it down!

Jdarg and Bdarg - thanks for making such a great kid! Love him!

Don't let him get too cocky. He had a blast last night.

I had no idea he could build a house of cards!

[Jdarg]

Mrs. G and I went to the opening night celebration. The pre-theater coctail party was funn and delicious. Now to the play......I give it 2 BIG THUMBS UP !! The acting was superb, as it always is, and Craig did fabulous directing. The Seaside Rep needs everyone's support. It is one of the great resources in our area. Just think if every member on this message board sent in $10, that would raise tens of thousands of dollars. Let's all do our part and send in a donation or better yet become a member. Let's not think the theater will always be here, because without local support it could disappear, which is something no one would want.

Yea Goofer and Mrs. Goofer!!!

[Jennifer Steele]

Several "Celebrity" sitings at the Rep last night...

[John R]

Several "Celebrity" sitings at the Rep last night...

do tell.

[Jdarg]

Several "Celebrity" sitings at the Rep last night...

Yeah, Will called me at intermission.

[Jennifer Steele]

do tell.

You should know...you made their reservation...lucky 13 and her mister were some of the celebrities.

[Jdarg]

What a fabulous play!! I enjoyed every minute- and the Q&A at the end was very interesting and fun. These actors are all a treasure. Everyone needs to go to this play AND stay afterwards and talk to these amazing people and their great director. We are very lucky to have such quality theater in our town.

Now here is my public apology- my cell phone rang during Act 2. Total embarrassment does not even begin to describe how horrible it was. The phone was turned off during the first act, then turned on at intermission to check for SOS messages from home, then chucked into my purse as I ran for my seat. The it rang. And rang and rang because I couldn't fing it in the black hole of my purse. I am writing this small because I feel about this big.

Now check the schedule at the top of this thread, buy some tickets, and go so we can all have a Tom Stoppard discussion!

[Miss Kitty]

What a fabulous play!! I enjoyed every minute- and the Q&A at the end was very interesting and fun. These actors are all a treasure. Everyone needs to go to this play AND stay afterwards and talk to these amazing people and their great director. We are very lucky to have such quality theater in our town.

Now here is my public apology- my cell phone rang during Act 2. Total embarrassment does not even begin to describe how horrible it was. The phone was turned off during the first act, then turned on at intermission to check for SOS messages from home, then chucked into my purse as I ran for my seat. The it rang. And rang and rang because I couldn't fing it in the black hole of my purse. I am writing this small because I feel about this big.

Now check the schedule at the top of this thread, buy some tickets, and go so we can all have a Tom Stoppard discussion!

...please tell me it wasn't me. I think it was.

[Jdarg]

...please tell me it wasn't me. I think it was.

I am hoping to wake up and it was all a dream.

[Miss Kitty]

I am hoping to wake up and it was all a dream.

I am hoping to wake up without a hangover.

[Jdarg]

I am hoping to wake up without a hangover.

My Magic 8 Ball says otherwise.

[Beachbummett]

I am hoping to wake up without a hangover.

in case you need this.....run over to my house...it's in the kitchen

[NoHall]

What a fabulous play!! I enjoyed every minute- and the Q&A at the end was very interesting and fun. These actors are all a treasure. Everyone needs to go to this play AND stay afterwards and talk to these amazing people and their great director. We are very lucky to have such quality theater in our town.

Now here is my public apology- my cell phone rang during Act 2. Total embarrassment does not even begin to describe how horrible it was. The phone was turned off during the first act, then turned on at intermission to check for SOS messages from home, then chucked into my purse as I ran for my seat. The it rang. And rang and rang because I couldn't fing it in the black hole of my purse. I am writing this small because I feel about this big.

Now check the schedule at the top of this thread, buy some tickets, and go so we can all have a Tom Stoppard discussion!

Confession is good for the soul, child. Go now and sin no more. I still you, and I HATE it when cell phones go off during plays, movies, prayers, etc.

[lucky13]

You should know...you made their reservation...lucky 13 and her mister were some of the celebrities.

Thanks to John R, we had a grayt time at the Rep! I love the atmosphere there and we really enjoyed the play. Wish I'd spoken up during the question and answer session but there WILL be a next time! It was so good to see steeleing1 and graytonkid, glad we got to catch a glimpse of you both while we were there.

Mmm, missing the beach already. We'll miss it until we see it again!

[savvytangerine]

Planning on making it out this week.

But I'm counting down the days til Tuna Christmas.
((Have ya'll cast it yet?))

[Jennifer Steele]

Tonight's and tomorrow's Autumn Playwright Festival events had to be cancelled due to a bad leak that needs to be repaired in the theatre. You may have witnessed the drip last week. But...we'll be ready to go on Wednesday - The Real Thing at 7:30pm!!!!

For tickets - call 231.0733 or go to www.seasiderep.org.

[hoover_rc]

We get started up again tonight folks... Tonight is almost fulll, so come in Thursday - Saturday if you want to catch this awesome play....

[savvytangerine]

We get started up again tonight folks... Tonight is almost fulll, so come in Thursday - Saturday if you want to catch this awesome play....

Just RSVPed for Saturday.

Looking forward to seeing the play!

Don't forget only tonight and tomorrow left.

Make it out if you can!